Angus GeoSolutions Inc. (AGSI)
The Destination of Comprehensive Big Data and Geospatial Solutions

Accurate geospatial data serves as the compass for modern businesses. From telecommunications, utilities, municipalities, emergency management, couriers, real estate, professional sports teams, and other large organizations, many industries depend on AGSI geo-data to power their spatial business intelligence applications and optimize decision-making.

Despite the ever-growing demand for geospatial data, the process of collecting and maintaining a corpus of new and historical datasets is often challenging for all. This requires substantial time and resources, making it a liability rather than an asset for most businesses.

That’s where Angus GeoSolutions Inc. (AGSI) makes a difference with its detailed and accurate location-enabled datasets.

Its Go360™ Data is an extensive directory of location-based information that businesses can depend on to gain access to the most current and accurate data for supporting their projects relying on spatial data. This pre-eminent dataset has a standardized representation of topographic information including roof-top accurate addressing for the entire Canadian landmass. It is available in all popular database, text, and geospatial formats, as well as a live web service format for the latest and greatest available information.

“Our geospatial dataset comes from three decades of experience in managing a database containing 10’s of millions of records across 187 unique data types and its attribution, consolidating and centralizing every piece of the information,” says Geoff Cameron, Executive VP of AGSI.

Its motto, “We Are Data”, underscores how AGSI is spearheading the big data era with the highest quality information with geospatial inclusion. Go360™ Data is helping organizations across industries find new data relationships, view their clients in a new perspective, and run advanced data analytics to achieve current and future business objectives.

The Map for Uncharted Ventures

AGSI understands that the value of data is not tied to its abundance, instead lies in its accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. However, inconsistency in data structure, redundancy, and lack of standardization often prevent organizations from obtaining the best quality data. Go360™ Data is an ideal answer to all queries regarding data integrity, dispelling erroneous, and poor data quality that often leads to bad decisions and substandard management methods. The database comprises accurate and detailed Canadian location and spatial information defining addresses, including their individual units with postal codes, building classification, demographics, and postal boundaries, supported by real-time accessibility.

The team adopts a hands-on approach to collect and validate address data of every building, whether it’s a farmhouse, commercial plaza, or apartment complex. It also adds attributes to each address, like usage, premises of interest, construction status, and type. A large team of professionals from all over the country personally visits each location and regularly verifies and updates this data.This accessibility to such up-to-date information enables AGSI to offer a wide range of services, including consultation for enterprise projects depending on integrated spatial business intelligence, data integration, field data collection, address management, and mapping services.

AGSI also makes this information available to clients through its secure web services, which can be integrated with their in-house analytics tools. Businesses can use it for many purposes, such as planning, design & engineering, marketing, emergency management, and other operations.

Let’s take municipalities and telecommunication companies as an example. Municipalities often rely on address data for tax collection and urban planning. In many instances each department—survey mapping, public works, and taxation— are accessing different databases for the same locality. In a similar vein, telecommunication companies rely on separate billing systems for cellular, cable, and fiber services—each comprising different address data for the same customer. Given the redundancies and inconsistencies in data structures, they find it difficult to integrate different databases to ascertain the need and type of services required in that particular locality or demographic. AGSI’s Go360™ address management software adds immense value by extracting data from the organization’s database and integrating with Go360™ Data. It brings all the information related to an address onto a single pane of glass, providing them with a unified repository and a standardized data model. The solution is unlike any typical geocoding application as it contains details on new housing developments, numerous addresses and postal codes used locally for the same building, and all individual units existing at one street address.

Our Geospatial Dataset Comes From Three Decades Of Experience In Managing A Database Containing 10’s Of Millions Of Records Across 187 Unique Data Types And Its Attribution, Consolidating And Centralizing Every Piece Of The Information

“Our byproducts include six-digit postal code data that can be integrated with what’s known as super demographic data. It helps clients recognize multiple attributes such as customer income, spending habits, services rendered, business preferences, and ethnicities,” says Cameron.

AGSI currently holds the nametag as the only data company providing rooftop address look-up across Canada, with assured data quality in urban and rural areas. Besides, the address points contained within Go360™ Data are geographically referenced services information standardized to use for various business needs such as utility planning, health care, supply chain through to emergency services. Clients can identify business cases and provide needed services to growing or underserved communities.

Feature-rich Solution Suite for Seamless Geo-Data Management

Go360’s suite of data management tools is another prominent offering of software from AGSI. It offers best practices and recommendations on how to clean, contextualize, and maintain clients’ own data. The solution essentially empowers clients by transforming their web browsers into powerful tools that can aggregate data from many sources, display it spatially, edit, analyze, and share that information with authorized parties.

Designed as a function-rich, user-friendly, and highly customizable solution, this enterprise data management tool has the ability to tie in with any in-house real-time systems ranging from customer care to complex electric or telecom networks including asset monitoring systems.For example, one of Canada’s leading telecom service providers with over 8,000,000 customers uses Go360™ as an asset management tool. Integrated into client network monitoring system, the solution accurately pushes geo-location every time a customer enquiry flows into the system. AGSI also offers them a mobile-friendly application, which in combination with the web and mobile viewers enabling dispatchers, supervisors, and crews to easily pinpoint the fault on the fiber during site visits.

Go360™ applications also come with the built-in Go360™ Security Engine that clients can use to configure permissions and delegate access levels within the organization. It manages the big picture organizational workflow, helping them streamline business processes and ensure data integrity throughout the operations.

"We Serve As A One-Stop Solution To Help Clients Drive Reliable And Meaningful Inferences From Data And Make Informed Decisions That Steer Them Toward Success"

City of Hamilton, one of the largest cities in Canada, is another prominent user of Go360™. The municipality uses the solution suite to create, clean, and validate their address data—from five to six departments—creating a single source of information. This eliminated different departmental versions of the same address enhancing service delivery and reporting across different departments.

AGSI also offers a public-facing application called Go360™ Contact Centre, giving residents the ability to request in real-time a service request within the locality. Civilians can notify relevant authorities about issues related to utility or streetlight outages or any other issue. All these tools are now packaged into a novel offering within the Go360™ Business Center, to give clients complete solutions for revamping their workflows that best meet ever-changing customer expectations.

“Our prime value proposition lies in the strategic blend of information with geography and software, characterized by exceptional quality. We serve as a one-stop solution to help clients drive reliable and meaningful inferences from data and make informed decisions that steer them toward success,” says Cameron.

Brains Behind the Service Excellence

Go360™ Data, Go360™ Business Center, and the Go360™ tool kit have been widely adopted by many utility companies and government agencies across Canada. AGSI’s service excellence is fueled by the shared passion of industry veterans from diverse backgrounds. The key members of the company have extensive experience in developing geospatial data solutions. Chris Cameron, its CEO and President, played an early pivotal role in creating a GIS data model and population for Ontario land titles. Geoff Cameron, EVP, has extensive experience when leading the Enterprise GIS department at one of North America’s 10 largest electric utilities, Hydro One. Their industry expertise shaped AGSI’s solution suite as a multi-industry solution applicable for many use cases.

In the coming days, AGSI aims to help clients in the telecom industry steer their 5G initiatives. It is gearing up to be a guiding hand to government agencies involved in solving multi-dwelling and housing problems. The combination of industry expertise and carefully tailored solutions illustrates AGSI’s commitment to constantly innovate and aid clients in unlocking unmatched operational excellence and unprecedented efficiencies.