Timmons Group Awarded Contract to Develop Enterprise Information Architecture and Applications for the Virginia Department of Forestry

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information contact:
Allen Finch, Director of Marketing
Timmons Group
804.200.6373
allen.finch@timmons.com

Richmond, VA – Integrated Forest Resource Information System (IFRIS) will include application modules that support enterprise computing functions, including the following: federal reporting requirements compliance, time and accomplishment reporting, forest stewardship plan management, forest lands (tracts and parcels) management, automated fiscal and strategic goal reporting and field data collection. IFRIS will allow for the elimination of many existing paper forms, cumbersome workflows and will consolidate data capture and maintenance. Employee time and accomplishment (i.e., forestry practices) reporting will be linked interactively to spatial features, including managed tracts and parcels facilitating advanced spatial decision support functions. Advanced web-based mapping functions will allow for the creation and manipulation of a variety of spatial features including forest stands, tracts and parcels.

As part of the initial service offer, Timmons Group also assisted VDOF in the development of a supporting information architecture solution. The developed solution includes the use of ESRI’s ArcGIS Server©, ArcIMS© and ArcSDE© to meet spatial data management, reporting and analysis. The proposed architecture will be extensible and will offer geospatial web services as part of a service oriented architecture (SOA) model. It is envisioned that the SOA geospatial web services will be consumed by other, non-spatial applications both within VDOF and other agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

About Timmons Group
Timmons Group is a leading provider of geospatial, information architecture and engineering services headquartered in Virginia with offices in North Carolina, the Washington D.C. area, and Pennsylvania. Timmons Group is a privately held ENR 500 company and maintains strong business partner relationships with ESRI, Azteca and NovaLIS Technologies. Timmons Group has been a recipient of both the ESRI Business Partner of the Year award and the ESRI Foundation Partner of the Year award.

For more information about Timmons Group services, contact Lowell Ballard at lowell.ballard@timmons.com

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