[Aust-NZ] Results of OGC business value survey

[Ross Johnson]

Below you will find a link to the OGC Business Value Sub-committee international survey on the value of open standards. We are encouraged by the number of respondents, over 300 organisations from around the world. We are also pleased with the split of OGC members and non-members. 
The geographic distribution of responses, heavily weighted from Asia Pacific, Europe and North America, is also representative of the OGC member activities in these regions. It's promising to see notable contributions from Africa and South America, and in future years we hope to see more activity in these regions, as well as the Middle East.
The preamble and background (up to slide 14) is from the researchers, Professor Mu Xia and Professor Kexin Zhao, who carried out this work on behalf of the OGC. Once again we thank them for their efforts.
Slide 21 High growth potential for OGC standards highlights the work that needs to be done to communicate and educate the broader market place regarding OGC standards. We see this as a core activity of the Business Value Sub-committee to explain to stakeholders how open standards can support organisational goals.
This means being able to explain the value of using open standards and participating in open standards development processes to: software developers, programmers, system architects, GIS analysts, GIS managers, IT Directors, CIOs and CEOs. 
It's also worth noting the top four standards adopted by both technology users and providers that responded to the survey: Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), KML and GML. 
This result will help shape and guide work being done by OGC staff on standards tutorials, as well as using existing material from OGC members for standards training.
Slides 23 and 24 on Adoption Level - Diversity provides some of the real insight into the survey results. The success of any open standard is in its adoption and the breakdown of standards by technology users and providers in these slides show the low levels of adoption or awareness for several standards.  
Information can be drawn from the Benefits and Costs sections on slides 28 and 29 to assist with the messaging requirements highlighted earlier for the various stakeholders. Benefits include improved productivity, customer service and partner coordination for technology users, through to competitive advantage, market expansion and customer satisfaction for technology providers. There are four main costs noted, which include training, organisational change, integration and implementation of the standards. 
One of the key findings from all respondents is that they all promote open standards, whether they are participating in standards development or not.  
Finally, in terms of certification there's an overlap between the top four standards being adopted and certification needs, with the additional inclusion of several OGC web service standards in the top listing.
A link has been provided for you to access the OGC portal (without any authorisation or permission required) to see the results for yourself:
File URL: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=48440 
Directory: /Business Value Committee
Filename: OGC Business Value.pptx
Updated: 2012-04-11 Size: 338.56 KB
Any and all feedback is appreciated via the business value mailing list here:
business.value at lists.opengeospatial.org
The results will be made more publicly available to all respondents in the coming weeks.
Best wishes

Steven Ramage, OGC (Chair), Ton de Vries, Bentley (Vice Chair) and Emmanuel Mondon, Intergraph (Vice Chair)
The Business Value Sub-committee




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