Gurgaon, India, March 12, 2009 – Orkash Services bagged the award for the ‘Best Technical Paper Presentation’ from amongst 90 technical presentations at the four-day international conference organized by the Map World Forum from 10-13 February 2009 at Hyderabad. The annual event saw a phenomenal participation of 1700 international GIS-community members and global companies spanning across more than 40 countries.
The annual Map World Forum conference has grown to become one of the most successful international platforms for ideating and sharing geo spatial technological breakthroughs, as evidenced by the fact that there were around 90 technical papers covering the R&D initiatives of
some of the largest of global companies and eminent academicians.
Orkash’s paper titled “Enhancing decision making and creating intelligence through integrated semantically enhanced expert systems on geo-spatial platforms” showcased the proprietary technology developed by Orkash. This technology integrates semantic search, knowledge extraction, artificial intelligence based expert systems, and geo-spatial data mining systems and visualization over a Web 2.0 based platform. The technology has been rated highly both for its cutting edge innovation as well as scalability for mass adoption.
Commenting on the pioneering technology that Orkash showcased, the CEO of Orkash, Ashish Sonal said, “Orkash’s focus is on creating intelligent information contextualization and semantic search capabilities that can be seamlessly mated with artificial intelligence based expert systems using data mining and geo-spatial systems to create intelligence for automated decision support platforms.” This technology, massively scalable through ‘computer clusters’, is delivered as a SaaS solution, and can be accessed by individual users as well as enterprises over the web at a low cost.
“The solution will have the applicability across areas such as homeland security, market and competitive intelligence, location risk management, disaster management, supply chain, logistics, enterprise security, and battlefield C3I systems”, added Sonal.