Not All GIS Tools Are the Same: Find the Right Fit for Your Workflow
Geospatial professionals know and love ArcGIS for its powerful capabilities. It’s an industry-leading tool for spatial analysis, cartography, and GIS workflows. If you work with maps, spatial modeling, or deep geographic insights, ArcGIS is an essential part of your toolkit.
But what if you are not a GIS expert? What if your focus is on preparing, managing, and sharing data rather than performing advanced spatial analysis? That’s where BigGeo Datalab comes in.
BigGeo Datalab: A Simple, Scalable Geospatial Data Platform
Datalab is a tool designed for anyone who needs to manage geospatial datasets efficiently. It simplifies data preparation, partitioning, and access control so you can focus on making your data available to the right users in the right format and even monetize it on the Marketplace.
ArcGIS is the go-to platform for GIS professionals conducting deep spatial analysis. BigGeo Datalab is a streamlined solution for data teams that need to clean, optimize, partition, and distribute geospatial data at scale.
Key Use Cases for BigGeo Datalab
- Data Cleaning & Preparation: Format, partition, and optimize geospatial data for faster access and usability.
- Access Control & Sharing: Manage permissions and securely distribute datasets across teams, clients, or partners.
- Data Monetization: BigGeo Marketplace enables data providers to package, distribute, and sell geospatial datasets securely.
- Scalable Data Storage & Performance: Organize large geospatial datasets without the overhead of traditional GIS software.
- Hot Computed Data: Pay a flat price for your real-time geospatial data available with zero latency, and forget about API query fees.
Who Benefits Most from Datalab?
BigGeo Datalab is built for data engineers, data platform teams, and organizations that need to efficiently manage and distribute geospatial data. If your work involves cleaning raw spatial data, optimizing large datasets for downstream applications, or sharing access without complex GIS software, Datalab is the right fit.
Datalab is designed to power location intelligence across such industries:
- Defence & Security
- Resource Management
- Disaster Response
- Network Optimization
- Supply Chain & Logistics
- Retail & Commerce
- Urban Planning
- Agriculture & Environment
The Right Tool for the Right Job
Comparing ArcGIS and Datalab feature by feature misses the point. They serve different but complementary roles. BigGeo Datalab is simpler and built for non-GIS experts who need an intuitive way to work with spatial datasets.
Get a demo to learn more about how you can benefit from Datalab.