A. WeoGeo is building the world’s richest and most accessible library of maps and engineering files, through an advanced storage and delivery system for professional documents. We provide tremendous costs savings for our customers with a Software-as-a-Service solution for content management. This solution is combined with a professional content marketplace, similar to the "iTunes Store", that creates new revenues opportunities for these customers.

WeoGeo, Inc was established in 2006

 

A. Digital maps and CAD drawings are typically large (gigabytes to terabytes in size) and often have unique file formats that are difficult to store and index. This makes finding these files across an enterprise’s network difficult, and costly. Today’s file management solutions call for expensive software (>$40,000) that is hosted on expensive servers (>$30,000), which are maintained by expensive personnel (>$100,000 per year per employee). File storage costs alone for larger organizations with traditional IT departments can cost $2 to $4 per gigabyte per month. These outsized expenses are ripe for a disruptive approach to dramatically reduce infrastructure and personnel overhead.

WeoGeo breaks the current expensive solution set with a managed product, the WeoGeo Library, that reduces the costs of file storage, search, and content delivery. The managed product comes in two flavors – (1) an enterprise rack-mountable appliance, and (2) a scalable, hosted content Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution built upon Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our solutions provide a reserve library system for companies to manage their company-wide professional documents and drawings. File management and access control services are controlled via a simple-to-use browser-based console. Our file security and access auditing features create an efficient internal and regulatory system of record for digital assets. And for maps and drawings that have a high resell potential, we provide global search and discovery across all our open access products to create a digital marketplace, the WeoGeo Market, of professional content. We provide cost savings and new revenue potential to our current enterprise customers, including universities, state agencies, and aerospace companies, as well as our new Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) customers.

 

Q. What are your impressions of the entrepreneurial community in the Northwest?  How would you like to see it grow/change?

A. We recently moved our company from Tampa, FL to Portland, OR to be a part of this entrepreneurial community, so we are very excited about the Northwest.  The only thing we would like to see happen is for more people to come here and be successful.

 

Q. How are you involved in the entrepreneurial community and how has it helped shape your business?
A. We have just started our involvement locally, and have become members of OEN.  In addition, we have participated in OEN events (Seed Pub Talk Series and Angel Oregon).

 

A. I am learning to simplify and better explain our tools and products, which in turn allows me to reach and influence more people, not just those in our industry.  The sessions with Dave Yewman have been very valuable.

OEN has also introduced me to many helpful and important contacts and possible partners.  It has also given entrepreneurs like myself, a safe place to go and discuss the questions, concerns, fears and hopes we all have in common.

 

A. Wall Street Journal
Directions Magazine
Planet Geospatial

 

A. Tomorrow is promised to no one. 
When in doubt, just breathe.