Geospatial World Leadership Awards Announced

Southampton, UK. 9 May 2014: Snowflake Software, has been named Geospatial Technology Company of 2013 at the Geospatial World Leadership Awards at the Geospatial World Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, in recognition of the company’s leadership and contributions towards the global development of the geospatial industry.

“As a company we are honoured to receive such recognition and thank the awards Jury for considering Snowflake.” commented Ian Painter, CEO of Snowflake Software. “We are always looking to innovate, to promote open standards and the use of geospatial data. Our recent expansion to support the Aviation sector demonstrates just how our passion for interoperability is enabling specialists around the world to exchange geospatial data in day to day operations.”

The awards jury, comprising of Prof. Fraser Taylor, Distinguished Research Professor at Carleton University; Aida Opoku Mensah, Director, ICT, Science and Technology Division at the United Nations; Matt O'Connell, President of MOC Partners; Prof. Henk Scholten, CEO of Geodan and Scientific Director of the SPINlab at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; and David Schell, Chairman of the Open Geospatial Consortium, unanimously awarded Snowflake Software the honour.

The Geospatial World Leadership Awards recognise, acknowledge and honour outstanding  professionals, entrepreneurs, organisations, programmes and academic institutions, who have made significant contributions towards the development of geospatial technology, products, applications and capacity development, and in turn have helped in making geospatial technology almost a global commodity.

About Snowflake Software

Founded in 2001, Snowflake Software provides commercial off the shelf software products that facilitate data exchange and interoperability within the Data Provider, Defence, and Aviation markets. Based on open standards, the unique off the shelf GO Loader and GO Publisher products enable the efficient low risk building of next generation Open Data infrastructures by wrapping existing legacy infrastructure. Combining off the shelf software with the knowledge of industry experts, business consultants and training courses and Snowflake can tailor its products and services to specific business or industry requirements.

Snowflake is based both in the UK and in the USA.

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