Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley has stumbled upon an interesting product from Microsoft called Single View. The software as a service platform will be announced this week at the Microsoft US Public Sector CIO Summit in Redmond. What is it?
The Single View Platform (SVP) is designed to provide “a single, geographic view of complex information and data sets across multiple roles, locations, and user interfaces.”
The CIO Summit site describes it as a tool to improve “communication, collaboration, and decision-making…a solution that puts information in a single geographic context that requires comprehensible visual presentation of data, access to real-time or near real-time information.”
Aimed at thick-pocketed government agencies, Single View has an expensive list of prerequisites for use including Virtual Earth, SharePoint Server 2007, Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, SQL Server and Windows Server.
I’m sure a tool like this would have a huge number of uses from fleet management to disease control and disaster management.
