The goal of Dutch Ministry of Finance’s project was to create an integrated GIS-SAP solution that would provide administrative and geospatial data in one user interface. The solution would streamline the maintenance and retrieval of all geospatially enabled real estate information. In operation, with the push of a button, all business entities in SAP could be visualized on the fly in a highly detailed map in the SAP browser.

The solution, which was implemented using Bentley Geospatial Server, means that all of the Ministry’s user rights and legal documents, including adjacent properties, are spatially enabled and accessible by all users. For instance, all information about vacancy of the properties and conflicting contracts are easily accessible. The project’s net return on investment is $100,000-$150,000 a year, achieved by reducing labor costs and increasing revenues.