ISC Launches Touchgeo, an HTML5 Mobile Data Collection Solution

ISC has rolled out touchgeo, a mobile data collection platform for creating and editing spatial information using tablets and smartphones that is designed to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a back end data source, among others.

Touchgeo, which is written in HTML5, is an open codebase that developers can modify to help employees collect data while they're working in the field.

The touchgeo application includes REST web services and it can integrate with Microsoft's SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, SQL Azure and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online or on-premise. It supports mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad, Android and Microsoft Surface. At the heart of touchgeo is ISC's MapDotNet UX server technology and its HTML5 map visualization control.

Any organization that collects or updates information about physical assets over a wide area like a campus, city, or state can use touchgeo. This includes real estate companies, land management organizations, timber management, utilities, local government, university and college campus management, and many more. And because touchgeo also supports read-only access to the your data, you can use it to publish data to the web for end users to view in the field.

With touchgeo, enterprises can create map applications for mobile devices and then overlay data about their physical assets on those maps from the mobile devices. The data that's been uploaded to a map then gets stored in Dynamics CRM as CRM or xRM entities. Touchgeo can also expose Dynamics CRM entity attributes in the app for record creation, updating or deleting.

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