Webinar: Geographic Business Intelligence at Walmart

How an associate at the world's largest retailer develops data-driven analyses for informed strategic decisions

Join us on April 20th for a webinar about "Building High-Impact Presentations and Geospatial Reporting" – and discover how a senior manager at Walmart is unlocking the full power of his team's geospatial data.

In recent years, associates at Walmart have found unique ways to integrate and automate business intelligence (BI) workflows with geospatial insights. Like most organizations, associates at Walmart face the traditional obstacles in analysis and decision making: silo bottlenecks, slow data integration and processing, and tradeoffs between accuracy, speed and insight. They also have an urgent need for detailed, up-to-date reports that are easily understood, widely available and immediately actionable.

Walmart's Store Innovations & Sustainability team tackled these challenges with an open mind and the company's legendary focus on process- and cost-efficiencies. Using their existing IT infrastructure, they were able to leverage the many benefits of geographic business intelligence: “no-limits” access to data, rapid integration and processing, powerful analytics with ease-of-use, and on-demand reporting across the enterprise.

Directions Magazine Webinar: A Paradigm Shift in Geospatial Intelligence? Challenges for a New Generation of Analysts

Is the GEOINT paradigm shifting from the technologically centric “find, fix and finish” warfare to a more anticipatory posture focused on human interests? Is today’s GEOINT community prepared for the analytic challenge of including cultural, population, economic and political geographies? What are the implications for the tradecraft and the geospatial intelligence professional? We believe changes are underway, and this webinar addresses what those changes mean to those who work in, support or are training in this field. USGIF and a panel of experts dive into this topic in a webinar taking place December 9th at 2 p.m. Read more about it in this post. 

Understanding the Changing Planet (Video)

Alexander B. Murphy, professor of geography at the University of Oregon, chaired a national committee that looked at how his field could provide a roadmap to a variety of challenges facing the planet, including climate change. In this video, Murphy provides us with a brief overview of his committee’s report: “Understanding the Changing Planet.