The nature of field data gathering has changed, as mobile devices and notepad computers find wider circulation. Surveys that once went through arduous roll-up processes are now gathered and digitized quickly. Now, a new stage of innovation is underway, as back-end systems enable users to employ field data for near-real-time decision making. An example in the geographic information system (GIS) space is ESRI's Survey123 for ArcGIS, which was formally introduced at ESRI's annual user conference, held this week in San Diego.
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