DHI Announcement

Hi everyone,

We are delighted to announce a strategic partnership with DHI Water & Environment, a self-owned, independent, not-for-profit and global research and consultancy organisation that builds competence and promotes technological advancement in areas relevant to water, risk, environment and health. This partnership enables DHI to strengthen its offer for geospatial services based on GeoNode and MapStore open source software, at the same time GeoSolutions will gain a strategic partner with a strong footprint in Denmark but also across the globe which is fully committed to supporting the widest possible adoption of open source products like GeoNode, MapStore. 

GeoSolutions is aware of the need for professional services to support the implementation, deployment and maintenance of platforms based on open source geospatial products; therefore, it has decided to create a global network of certified partners of excellence who would leverage its technical capability and expertise in order to fill this gap and bring their skills and offering to the next level. The goal is to support the growth and deeper penetration of open source geospatial products like GeoServer, GeoNode and MapStore, by sharing knowledge, receiving direct technical and commercial help as well as anything that can help them with positively addressing the increased demand for professional support services and solutions.

GeoSolutions website provides additional information about the partnership program and remember, we are stronger together!

About DHI

DHI Water & Environment is a self-owned, independent, not-for-profit and global research and consultancy organisation that builds competence and promotes technological advancement in areas relevant to water, risk, environment and health. The company is headquartered in Denmark, but has over 1000 staff distributed across 25 offices worldwide.

DHI‘s knowledge of water environments and risk is renowned worldwide. It represents 50 years of dedicated research and real-life experience from more than 140 countries. DHI strives to make this knowledge globally accessible to clients and partners by channelling it through our local teams and unique software.

DHI is a leading knowledge provider within Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and river basin management and development and hosts three international centres dedicated to working towards IWRM in cooperation with GWP, UNEP (UNEP-DHI Partnership – Centre on Water and Environment (http://www.unepdhi.org/)) and WHO. DHI provides assistance and advice within key aspects of institutional development, action planning, design and implementation of river basin improvement plans.

The partnership with GeoSolutions supports DHI business of providing scalable and robust web solutions based on MapStore and GeoNode.

Why become a GeoSolutions partner?

At GeoSolutions, we are well aware of the need for professional services to support the implementation, deployment and maintenance of platforms based on open source geospatial products; therefore, we have decided to create a global network of certified partners of excellence who would leverage its technical capability and expertise in order to fill this gap and bring their skills and offering to the next level. The goal is to support the growth and deeper penetration of open source geospatial products like GeoServer, GeoNode and MapStore, by sharing knowledge, receiving direct technical and commercial help as well as anything that can help them with positively addressing the increased demand for professional support services and solutions.

The partner benefits page contains more information on the partnership benefits, however, let us highlight again a few of them:

• Technical and commercial support: Partners will be allowed to use the resumes of our technical team to participate in tenders by offering the direct technical support of GeoSolutions. Our sales engineers will work, as needed, to support the partner’s team during acquisition of new clients.
• Use of GeoSolutions logo: Partners will be allowed to use our logo and partnership member logo on all media, with our selective prior authorization.
• Discount to GeoSolutions’ offerings: GeoSolutions’ offerings (enterprise services, subscription services, custom tailored solutions, and training) will be provided at a discounted rate to the partners whether they are the final users or whether they act as a reseller (with the latter meaning that we will be effectively recognizing an equivalent sales commission to the Partner).
• Support hours: GeoSolutions will provide a small package of initial support to the partner as part of the partnership agreement to help with the bootstrapping phase.

There are other benefits such as training, early access to new developments, webinar updates for new releases, sharing of promotional material and more. For more information visit the current partners page as well as the Becoming a GeoSolutions Partner page, together we are stronger!

The GeoSolutions team,