Saudi Telecom Co. (STC) is the telecommunication services provider in the country serving millions of customers and offering services for Landline, Mobile, Data services (DSL, IP-VPN, etc) and Internet Services. The Customer Facing Services/GIS department is vested with the responsibility of planning and managing the development and expansion of automated mapping, facilities management and geographic information system and to make sure that decision-makers, network users and others have access to geospatial information that is complete, timely, accurate, and reliable.
The E-Map GIS Intranet project is a strategic initiative of the CFS department. The primary goal of the project is to streamline the operations and improve efficiency of departments by enabling Web access to telecom facilities data and other geospatial data and application services including landbase, Points of interest (POI), navigable street data and satellite imagery. The E-Map project system architecture is designed to integrate different geospatial data sources like FRAMME networks and telecom facilities, map landbase, navigable street networks, and more into a central Oracle Spatial store. The geospatial web publishing services are provided by Bentley Geo Web Publisher. The client interfaces include both the English and Arabic languages.