Our business consists of two principal partners (Gus and Ellen Nodwell) and a distributed team of experienced and highly skilled associates who are other small business entities.

Behind the scenes:  Our associates and working business partners include technology and training partners from across the globe, that can provide the required array of technology components and skills to deliver a successful GIS implementation and help keep it running, if needed, or turn over the keys to the “owner”.

We also employ students as interns in certain situations because we believe that internships are the key to enabling graduates to build great careers through learning by doing in the real world.  Today, we find that students bring a fresh perspective and incredible talent into our mix – we can mentor, they can gain real experience – it is a win-win for the present AND the future!

We are primarily situated in The Woodlands, Texas, USA with capabilities for working in other locations across the globe.

In the USA, we are a woman-owned small business “WOSB”, registered with the US Federal Government, and several other local and state government entities.

We are constantly building our partner associations with others who work in different locations, with the skills needed to complete projects and deliver top quality solutions.

Bottom-line: We are a virtual company.  This keeps our brick-and-mortar expenses to a minimum and provides great flexibility.  We work with the time-zones, they do not work against us!  Much of our work we do is by working remotely and as needed on customer sites.

We utilize our partnerships across the globe to collaborate and bring the best talent together to work for you – no matter where you are located – we are agile – with low overheads. This allows us to be as flexible as possible with our availability, as well as be highly competitive on pricing.

We strive to work where you work.

Experience is important.  We have worked business-side and service-side – we understand the divisions and the whole and the impacts of each perspective.  It does not require a Ph.D. to gain real-world experience.  Let’s say that we have Ph.D.’s from the “School of Hard Knocks” – lessons learned hard and fast!

Why?  Because experience exposes people to situations that cannot be taught in school – and cannot be addressed, necessarily, with just installing some software or some servers without understanding the problems that you are trying to solve.  When you have multiple experiences in similar scenarios, you learn lessons, and patterns emerge. 

Understanding how to avoid spending extra money – how to avoid mistakes in your strategy and execution – the recommended “do this vs. do that” – all of this comes with experience.

We possess many decades of experience in the application of Esri’s ArcGIS, as well as other technologies, to deliver information management systems across numerous industry types, including Advertising, Energy, Petroleum and Pipelines Industries, Telecommunications, Aviation, Healthcare, Education, Investment Banking and Government.

In our experience, we have installed and overhauled, upgraded, and migrated large and small implementations of a variety of technologies.  We have completely overhauled data delivery systems from the server base all the way through re-modeling and upgrading file systems and databases.  We have migrated information, transformed it, and completed large, complex system overhauls to update to newer technology stacks.  We have upgraded countless ArcGIS implementations – anything from software upgrades to complete system remodeling.

We have been early-adopter participants of such products as ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap++) transitioning from the ArcView generation, early adopters of “SDE” transitioning from ArcInfo-generation data sources, implementing web maps using REST services and real-time data in its earliest forms, early-adopter POC of ArcGIS Portal as it was released, as well as early adoption and implementation of ArcGIS Enterprise in the Azure Cloud.  Our lessons learned are invaluable.

We have worked in the business as non-IT professionals and analysts.  This experience taught us the thinking behind what the technology is doing.

Experience using old-school methodologies enable deep understanding of what “push button” technology without experience, cannot yield.  We have manually completed demographic analyses and drawn maps by hand to show the results – along with the reports we wrote-up by hand, then typed with a typewriter.  We have manually mapped and contoured data that we computed using paper and pencil + an adding machine.

We have manually measured volumes of 3D spaces on a map without digital data, using hand-tools.  We understand the basic “old-school” earth measurement principles and methods, and how important geodesy and survey methods are to accurate mapping. 

We learned the importance of cartography as it applied to our work and we have presented facts and findings using hand-drawn maps and reports on paper. Field work means “from the ground to the map” – it is how accurate data is collected and displayed for greater understanding and context.

We are “digital immigrants” who have essentially immigrated from the manual and analog environments from back in the day, through the earliest days of transitions from mainframe computing, to “mini” and personal-computers, to client-server technologies and digital databases, into the emergence of the internet and “dot net” applications and watched the emergence of the phenomenons in social networking — and transitioned into working with implementations that are cloud-based and hybrid-based environments. 

We are currently continuing to evolve with the inclusion of new data technologies into our solutions – utilizing high performance computing methods for deep learning, machine learning, and leveraging AI in GIS visualizations to solve real-world problems. 

Our experience through the generations of technology has taught us a great deal that we can share with you.  With experience comes wisdom – of learning what to do as well as what not to do.

We understand “business data life-cycle” management of non-spatial information and spatial data associated with information, and with other information management systems and applications, including business intelligence and information architecture (ERP, integrated financial systems, supply chain, contracts management, operations, CRM, etc.).

We have experience with integration of non-spatial information and geospatial data – to enable you to “get things on the map”.

We have many years of experience working with data models and standards across the upstream and midstream of the petroleum business – a highly complex business requiring refined accuracy in geospatial data.  We have associate partners who bring geodesy, surveying, and positioning guidance expertise into our projects when required.

We have been participants in the development of standards, working with others in collaborative efforts and work groups with major industry standards organizations.

Our philosophy is that we “never stop learning”.

Quite simply, we will help you build a great strategy – a plan – a roadmap – and a framework for implementing (or updating) your technology.  For your location-based data, across your organization we can help you plan and architect a “geographic information system” – in a sensible, deliberate way that meets your budget and time-sensitive requirements.

In planning, the key initial inquiry is not about the technology — it’s about the nature of your business and what the business is trying to achieve.  The goal is to identify what technologies you need to implement to meet your organization’s objectives successfully, year on year.

Knowledge of your underlying processes is important.  What the people in your organization do every day, where the use of geospatial data is happening – what can be done better, what is wasteful today – or causing issues for your organization

If you find that you do not have the people to conduct processes and work, we can help.  If you need resources to fill gaps, temporarily, we can help with that.

Skills and work behaviors are important where using technology, tools and data are concerned – of all types.  Technology is complex today – we do not have all the answers, but we are adept at assembling teams that can bring solutions to light by defining what resources people need to bring onboard to keep up. 

We can help you architect how your people-organization may manage and leverage your geospatial data and resources better.  We can recommend training for your people who use these technologies and other improvements that can help.

We also enjoy a good fishing trip when we can fit that in!

We love the outdoors and this focus also impacts our world view on how important it is to preserve and slow the degradation of our planet’s rich and diverse environment…

We do whatever it takes to get our customers where they want to be with the technology stacks that they need to employ to work for them.  It is not just about installing software on servers and walking away.

To be successful using technology of any flavor, it requires looking at your business needs, first, then planning and doing the right implementation for your organization. 

IntegraShare Dimension’s offerings are primarily services-based – which places us in the minority within the technology ecosystems where many providers are software product-centric.

We will develop software solutions if the need presents itself.  We also develop solutions that we may provide to partners as re-sellers to be a part of their offerings.

Please let us know if you are interested in partnering a co-development project with us. 

R&D are a also key part of our business activities.

We work with our partners in academia to contribute to evolving knowledge and act as research investigators, if needed.

We are able to do market analysis, proofs-of-concept, build software solutions to test outside of your environment ahead of implementation, and a variety of other R&D offerings.  Just ask us. 

We would love to have a conversation with you about joint ventures in learning more about what the combination of technologies can yield.