Laser-Scan Ltd

About Laser-Scan
Laser-Scan is an industry leader in providing GIS solutions and leads the world with its Object-Oriented (OO) application development software. Founded in 1969 the company now has customers in over 30 countries, and more than 25 years experience in developing and producing GIS technology products for modelling, managing and analysing spatial data.

With a highly professional staff of over 140 people, based in the UK and the USA, Laser-Scan provides full support services for all its products. These include hardware and software maintenance, installation and training, project management and consultancy. An in-house mapping services facility is available for data supply, map conversion and quality assurance of data. In addition, all Laser-Scan products are developed using recognised quality standards and the company is ISO9001 and TickIT certified.

Backed by the comprehensive range of support services, Laser-Scan has a reputation for quality, which is reflected in the customer base. Customers range from government and defence agencies to blue chip organisations and service businesses, spread throughout the world.

Laser-Scan offers a range of applications, developed using Gothic ADE, Laser-Scan's Object-Oriented Application Development Environment, all of which share the advantages inherent in a state-of-the-art object-oriented approach. Using Gothic's OO technology all Laser-Scan solutions provide improved quality through efficient analysis of vast quantities of geographically referenced data, and offer extensible functionality through easy end-user customisation. The OO architecture enables rapid evaluation of multiple "what if" scenarios and means that organisations modelling and analysing real world issues no longer have to compromise their data models to work around system limitations. The company's adherence to industry standards and commitment to true open systems, combined with this object-oriented approach, ensures flexibility for the customer and a choice of hardware platform, database and user interface system.

Laser-Scan Ltd www.laser-scan.com

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