This IDC study outlines the structure of current and future SIM markets and the disruptive influences that will shape them. We place particular emphasis on the use of spatial technologies within enterprise applications, and we include essential guidance for organizations and users who are interested in migrating their geospatial technologies to enterprise information systems.

"Going forward, IT providers will benefit from geospatial capabilities within their technologies. SIM's migration from a specialty technology to a broad enterprise resource poses both a threat and an opportunity for geospatial, database, data access, and business analytics vendors," said Henry Morris, group vice president for Applications and Information Access at IDC.