


Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, BA3 offers GIS products like Altus Mapping Engine, Altus Server and Altus Mapshop. Altus Mapping Engine provides enterprise clients a single, integrated, high-performance, highreliability mapping engine that works on every platform, including iOS, Android, Windows 8 desktop, Windows Phone, OSX desktop and Web. It uses an identical code base and compatible APIs in all cases, so if developers learn one pattern, they can use Altus ubiquitously across all platforms. The Altus Server provides enterprises a method to merge and process their mapping data within their existing server pipelines for display in the Altus Mapping Engine. Altus MapShop is a stand-alone product that helps developers and cartographers to select vector sources and style them for display in the Altus Mapping Engine. Vector maps have advantages that include compact storage compared to raster tiles, dynamic styling on device and high performance rendering.
The key differentiating factor for BA3 is the performance and capabilities of its tools.
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BA3 helps enterprises render GIS data with high-performance on any platform, giving the client complete control over the data and look of the map
The company’s tools can work with any GIS data sources (including custom sources) and most importantly have wide multi-platform capabilities. “A unique feature of our company is the ability to come into an enterprise as an A Team, to completely solve an enterprise’s mapping and GIS problems. If there is an impossible mapping problem in any organization, BA3 can probably solve it,” says Marshall Brain, CEO, BA3.
Out of many success stories BA3 has under their belt, the company’s association with a Fortune 500 company stands apart. The client had a dozen departments utilizing mapping data from many diverse sources—both internal and external. No one in the organization had visibility on all the sources, and a majority of the teams were also not aware of what the other teams had, as they were not sharing data, code or talent. In numerous cases, fees were being paid several times for similar data, and none of the tools was compatible across teams. BA3 was able to come in and rationalize the mapping space, provide a single tool set, bring all the data to one place and process it, so that everyone in the organization has access.
The BA3 set of products is under incessant, energetic development and enhancement. “We are implementing many more capabilities, so that clients can conceptualize or create anything that they can imagine on their maps. BA3 is also working to bring our superior mapping products to places like in-dash systems, enterprise systems, more industry verticals, and consumer products,” concludes Brain.
Company
BA3
Headquarters
Raleigh, NC
Management
Bruce Shankle, Founder
and Marshall Brain, CEO
Description
A software development company that gives enterprise clients complete control over their mapping assets and rendering