Combining Forces: Codifi + GIS

While much focus in the tech world is on the rise of AI, a quieter but equally transformative trend is the rise of GIS across numerous verticals, driven by the increasing demand for geospatial data to inform business strategy. The global GIS market is projected to grow significantly, from $12.9 billion in 2023 to $35.5 billion by 2032 (IMARC). 

This growth, fueled by advancements in GIS and geospatial technology and its expanding applications across multiple vertical markets, is driving a corresponding demand for GIS professionals and users. In a rapidly expanding industry, software solutions are numerous, adding further the pressure of identifying appropriate technologies for project needs. At Codifi, we understand these needs and are committed to providing a solution that not only meets but exceeds expectations as part of the existing toolkit.

The Power of Codifi: A Game-Changer for Geospatial Teams

While GIS tools focus on deep spatial analysis, complementary tools and functions in the ecosystem that layer spatial data with media (photos and videos), document management, and robust observational data have significant limits. Codifi is not a replacement for traditional GIS software. Much like a chef needs a variety of utensils and appliances to create a gourmet meal, Codifi is a sharp knife employed for a specific purpose.

GIS users often face the challenge of preparing tools and methodology for surveying, inspecting, or monitoring locations without complete prior details. These conditions are difficult to account for in tools meant for lightweight, survey-based data capture, resulting in workarounds, custom development, and other suboptimal solutions. Codifi’s flexible data capture solutions allow for real-time adjustments and data integration, ensuring that field teams can handle unpredictable conditions with ease. 

Codifi stands out with its extensive library of reusable workflow compositions, the ability to create and reuse customizable data components (such as fields, values, and schemas), and its robust built-in mapping, document and media management. It excels in data portability and interoperability with other analytical solutions, making it easy for users to retrieve their raw data. These features enhance the critical data that drives place-based businesses, offering significant time and cost savings throughout the entire data lifecycle.

Addressing GIS Professional Challenges

Codifi’s integration of various data sources ensures that spatial data maintains its relationships and retains rich attribution, enabling better-informed mapping activities. The platform’s seamless workflow preserves cohesion between spatial and non-spatial data sources, eliminating the risk of data incoherence.

Strict timelines and budgets necessitate an efficient field data capture process, as organizations risk data loss and inefficiencies without such systems. Codifi addresses these challenges by providing a unified workflow that integrates multiple data sources and tools, ensuring accurate and efficient data capture, even in the most demanding environments.

Many GIS projects involve complex data collection tasks that go beyond simple, flat survey data. These projects require robust solutions capable of handling intricate data relationships. Codifi excels in managing complex data schemas, facilitating comprehensive and precise data collection.

Additionally, companies often perform various types of fieldwork across different business units, requiring the tracking of diverse activities across geographically dispersed teams. Codifi’s platform supports these diverse data capture needs with customizable solutions tailored to specific business requirements, ensuring consistency and efficiency.

Codifi enhances your transition from project-based management to ecosystem management, empowering informed decision-making, maintaining operational excellence, and achieving strategic objectives across the enterprise. It supports companies in managing diverse field operations, providing a unified view of all activities and elevating the approach from individual project management to overseeing entire ecosystems, ensuring cohesive enterprise data management.

Every GIS Professional is a Citizen Developer

With Codifi, GIS professionals can shine as citizen developers, using no-code tools to build data requirements and relationships and set up report templates that generate from that data automatically. Or, if the responsibility for building workflows is separate from managing the spatial data, they can partner with adjacent developers in IT, Data Services, or Operations to develop workflows that seamlessly integrate Codifi into the rest of the spatial data ecosystem following one of our recommended integration pathways. 

Codifi offers both self-service training and hands-on, close support. A developer or analyst can expect to start building data schemas in Codifi with just a few hours of training and onboarding. Throughout their contracts, they always have a human support team to turn to for consultation and support in building and deploying workflows.

As organizations move toward a cohesive, consistent enterprise approach to managing project-based work, they require tools that support this transition. Codifi’s platform is designed to handle multiple projects within an enterprise framework, offering consistent data management and integration across all projects, ensuring that organizational goals and standards are met.

GIS professionals need highly reusable and flexible data solutions to leverage fully reusable data assemblages (archetypes) for quick deployment, robust workflows, and efficient survey building. Codifi makes it easy for GIS professionals with our easy-to-use Codeless User Interface, making navigation and data capture straightforward. Codifi provides a platform that enables users to create and reuse data structures effortlessly, saving time and resources while maintaining data integrity and consistency.

The Future of GIS with Codifi

Codifi does not aim to replace traditional GIS Software or contributors but rather to empower GIS users, who are some of our most critical and empowered stakeholders. In their capable hands, our platform’s emphasis on ease of use, flexibility, and integration ensures that users can manage their field data with greater efficiency and accuracy without compromising back-end data usability.

By adopting Codifi, GIS professionals can expect:

• Streamlined Workflows: Reduce the time and effort required for data schema creation and integration.
• Enhanced Data Control and Quality: Maintain consistent and accurate data across diverse teams and equipment.
• Increased Flexibility: Adapt quickly to changing field conditions and project requirements.
• Improved Collaboration: Enable non-technical team members to contribute effectively, fostering a more inclusive work environment.
• Less Data Degradation and Loss: Support for archival-grade media, fully offline data collection, and seamless synchronization to the cloud.

Join the Codifi Movement

Kathleen Markham, GIS Manager for Chronicle Heritage, remarks, “Codifi’s solution tackles some of the most frustrating challenges of data cohesion for teams collecting spatial and non-spatial datasets. For GIS teams, Codifi’s methodology provides invaluable faith in attribution and paves routes for interdisciplinary teams to operate with a definitive dataset, enabling them to more efficiently meet and exceed project goals.”

We invite GIS professionals to join the Codifi movement and experience firsthand the benefits of our revolutionary field data capture solution. Visit our website to learn more about how Codifi can transform your geospatial data collection and stay tuned for more insights from industry leaders.

Together, let’s drive the future of GIS forward.