It was a runaway success, drawing several companies that had never attended before. The 10 booths reserved for the pavilion sold out in just a few weeks. And after the expanded booths sold out just as fast, mobile vendors spilled out into every corner of the exhibit floor. Many mobile vendors, including Tadpole Cartesia, iMedeon, Tensing-SKS, Datria Systems and Utility Partners, wanted a stronger floor presence and opted for larger booths outside the pavilion. Nearly every vendor has a mobile strategy that extends its core systems to support fieldwork, either through its own products or strategic alliances with various mobile-application vendors.
Location services are the latest new trend .
With the emergence of smaller field devices and wireless data communications, many vendors introduced their developments in the location services arena. From the looks of things, users are interested. Intergraph put its location services division, IntelliWhere, in a separate booth for emphasis. IntelliWhere is making aggressive moves to introduce its applications to core geospatial markets. In addition, Autodesk showed some of its new location services wares coupled with its OnSite mobile applications.