Today data is of priceless. Everyone is leveraging valuable insights from data to explore newer horizons and get better outcomes. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is all about capturing, storing, manipulating, analyzing, managing, and presenting all types of spatial or geographical data. It is being implemented directly or indirectly across industries like engineering, planning, management, transport/logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and business to achieve diverse objectives.

Despite the economic downturn, GIS industry is braving the challenge to turn the tables.. The application field of the technology is growing, for instance the adoption of the GIS technology by commercial enterprises especially in the journalistic, real estate, and retail industries are expanding big time.

The demand for geographically co-related information, integration with cloud technology, geo tagging, spatially-enabled database management systems and enterprise solutions, analytical applications and location-based software and services are making inroads in to business strategies worldwide.

More and more solution providers are vying with each other to provide cutting edge solution to customers. This makes it extremely challenging for CIO to navigate complex and fragmented GIS landscape when looking for services providers to help with consulting, implementation, and support. To simplify & and help CIOs navigate the GIS solutions landscape, CIOReview is coming up with annual special edition on most promising GIS Solution Providers.

A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, analysts including CIO Review editorial board will decide the “20 Most Promising GIS Solution Providers 2015” in the U.S., listing the best vendors and consultants who provide key technology solutions and services related to GIS products.

In the process of selecting the 20 Most Promising GIS Solution Providers 2015 we will analyze the company’s offerings, core competency, news/press releases, client testimonials, milestones and other recognitions.

We invite you to nominate companies, which you think are at the forefront of tackling technological challenges in terms of solutions and services around the GIS platform.