SpatialKey 2011 – Year in Review

Lots of great things happening all the time at SpatialKey.  It has been an incredible year for us.  Check out this blog post detailing the many accomplishments: http://blog.spatialkey.com/2012/01/what-we-did-in-2011-year-in-review/

SpatialKey, Salesforce and Geopointe

SpatialKey now offers its spatial analytics capabilities to Salesforce users by way of our partnership with Arrowpointe software’s Geopointe mapping solution for Force.com.  Geopointe is the #1 Force.com geo/mapping solution and by way of our partnership now adding full-featured Geo-Analytics as well. If you currently use Salesforce and are looking for a mapping and analytics …

Our Application Server Stack

With a new year coming up I thought I would give a quick run down of our OS server stack.  From the beginning SpatialKey has been built on a number of great community/company open source platforms, here is what we currently use: Apache/Tomcat We are currently evaluating moving our application servers to pure Tomcat vs. …

SpatialKey nearing 2.3

Wow, the past year has been one of excitement and growth for SpatialKey as a platform!  We are now nearing a 2.3 version release of the server.  Over the year we have made great inroads into the insurance industry and are focusing in on a new “Apps” based approach for adding specific targeted capabilities to …

Using SpatialKey to analyze how far closing Saturn dealerships are from other GM dealers.

A lot of news coming from SpatialKey over the last week. First of all, SpatialKey is now officially out of beta and is live!  Free trial accounts are still available so check it out (completely re-designed web site too) – http://www.spatialkey.com! Second, with news coming out yesterday that GM is going to be closing Saturn …

SpatialKey Nearing 1.0 Release!

These are exciting times for the SpatialKey team as we approach our 1.0 release!  Open beta has been going for a while now (you have signed up for a beta account haven’t you???) and the feedback we are getting from our users has been phenomenal!!  We have listened to what our users are telling us …

SpatialKey News

Some exciting things are happening in the SpatialKey world.  We are nearing the end of the Beta cycle and will soon be in open Beta.  So, if you have not yet applied or been accepted into the current closed Beta you should get your chance soon.  To apply go here: http://www.spatialkey.com.  Once the open Beta …

Dynamic Scheduling with Java/Spring

SpatialKey owes much of its success on the server to the simplicity and capabilities of the Spring framework.  Spring provides many services that we take advantage of and one of these is the scheduling service. The Spring scheduling service allows for the execution of tasks on a well… scheduled basis.  With basic Spring scheduling support …

Running a command line executable in Java with redirected output???

First off there are some awesome new features coming very soon to SpatialKey!  I can’t let the cat completely out of the bag, but by reading this article you may get some idea of what is coming… One of the requirements for SpatialKey that has come up is the necessity to execute a command line …

Java Date Parsing (With an Unknown Format)

One of the biggest challenges within SpatialKey is how we could handle the many different date formats that a user could come up with.  And there are so many combinations of numbers (one digit month/day, two digit (month/day), two and four diget year, etc.) , words (Mon, Tue, Monday, Tuesday, Jun, Jul, June, July, etc.), …