Methodology for integration of spatial data in enterprise applications

Use of spatial data provided by Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is important in many decision-making areas, for instance, fleet management and transportation routing. However, efficient decision-making requires using both spatial data and data stored in other enterprise applications. This paper proposes a web-services and executable business process based methodology for integrating GPS, GIS and enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning systems. Architecture for implementation of the methodology and a sample integrated solution (ire also presented..