NEC Sphere Communications collaborated with Science Applications International Corporation to deliver robust interactive unified communications capabilities as part of their service-oriented architecture (SOA) collaborative infrastructure. Leveraging the UC services with SAIC's SOA is their GeoViz product, a commercial off-the-shelf, WebCentric GeoSpatial CollaborationTM tool suite that provides 2-D, 3-D and 4-D views of geographic areas of interest to military, security, safety and disaster management officials. The GeoViz tool suite provides a unique SOA-based, mission-oriented framework for allowing users and/or groups of users to compose their own specific mission (or user) defined operational picture (MDOP or UDOP) for subsequent collaboration and mission execution. Geospatial collaboration has become one of the hottest areas for government IT organizations seeking to provide a more complete emergency response solution using this new technology.
