Interview: Ben Berghauser, Onneer
Summary
Managing director, Ben Berghauser, and his colleagues have long focused on enabling large-scale enterprise GIS using Esri’s ArcGIS software, including the design and implementation of complex systems. Firstly, because we knew a lot of our peers were either working independently or looking for more when it came to using their ArcGIS knowledge, and from that we saw them needing more options to continue to grow their career within a collective of like-minded others. We ordinarily deal with managers who have an exceptional vision and understanding of what they want to achieve, but need a bit of assistance and further experience to bring it together. Integrating sub-par mapping capabilities circa 2007 still seems to be happening, and it creates an interoperability nightmare when those customers look to the industry and wish they could do the things other organisations are doing with their GIS. This has been an ongoing capability focus for us, and we’ve seen it in multiple clients — the moment precision starts to drop in how we describe the system, critical understanding begins to fall away because it’s an invitation to your stakeholders to flatten the meaning of complex issues.