Open Data and it’s uses have been making the news lately. Governments are liberating data that tax-payers paid to collect. This trend is creating many opportunities for new business ideas as well as enhancing existing ones.
Indosoft’s Q-Suite has the ability to plug into many of these data sources. While some sources are provided as flat files, others have an API that can be queried directly. One example is real-time address validation. This can be done before a delivery or service vehicle is assigned to be dispatched. Municipal data sources are usually updated much faster than a commercial data provider.
While Q-Suite has the ability to consume open data, it can also be used to provide it. Your organization could provide live queue wait times, up-to-date employee directories and much more.
Our design allows you to integrate with an almost limitless amount of external sources. Your tax dollars are paying to collect the data, so why not make use of it?
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