Image Matters is a leader in the field of designing and building operational Web portals and services, particularly for geospatial data, infrastructure, and applications. We specialize in Web portals for information discovery, evaluation, access, and decision support that facilitate the presentation, dissemination, and assimilation of content –text, tables, images, graphs, and maps – in an interactive manner by leveraging Internet-based technologies.

Portals
The Challenge: Addressing three Portal examples:
• Geospatial One Stop (GOS) Project.
• FEMA Map-Modernization and
Mapping Information Platform (MIP) Project
• Context Sensitive Situational Awareness (CSSA)
In each case, our clients needed technology savvey developers and creative designers to create user-friendly site that would provide multiple stake-holders with various applications, web services and information in an accurate and timnely fashion.
When producing web portals the technical architecture must be developed to leverage the latest portal packages, open standards, and Web services, and must integrate with a wide range of enterprise applications. Each portal has unique requirements that must be addressed.
The Objectives:
• The technical architecture must be developed
to
leverage the
latest portal
packages
• Utilize open standards
• Create an open source web portal
• Integrate with a wide range of enterprise applications
• Communicate with key targets
• Extend brand
The Solution: In each case, a comprehensive portal requirements plan was developed with Image Matters experts and the client.. bringing UI technology to bear to make user interfaces more intuitive. In each case, our experience in designing, coding and bringing UI technology to bear enables us to deliver unparalleled operational solutions. Our portals dramatically improve the usability and user experience of the enterprise applications.