Category: Market & Trends

Demographics & Skills Shortage - Baby Boomers Retire

A shortage of skilled workers is a problem that is becoming increasingly apparent throughout Germany. Now that the Corona crisis has been overcome, there are problems everywhere. There is a shortage of skilled workers. Whether at airport security checkpoints, in the transportation industry, in the trades, in the restaurant trade, in the healthcare sector or in industry. New workers are being sought everywhere. The map on the "young and old" age group provides information on the distribution in Germany.

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Connecting Worlds - Connecting Digital Twin.

Under this motto the Esri Conference took place simultaneously in three cities this year. Numerous GIS users and interested people met in Bonn, Zurich and Vienna to exchange information about the innovations of the ArcGIS technology. The digital twin played a major role in the event, which was divided into various "twin topic tracks" such as Governmental, Urban, Infrastructure, Environmental and Business.

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40 years of Location Intelligence

Exactly 40 years ago today, Geodaten GmbH was registered at the Bonn District Court. The company on which Nexiga is based. Inspired by the study of the different voter groups in the individual voting districts, this led to the analysis of the regional distribution of target groups for a wide variety of consumer and sales goods for marketing and sales.

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Worries about the precaution

The zero interest rate policy of recent years has now been left behind by the finance and insurance industry. Interest rates are rising at an unusually rapid pace in order to achieve price stability again as soon as possible. The main problem at present is high inflation, reminiscent of the early 1970s.
Against this background, almost all interest-bearing securities are a negative business. This also applies above all to insurance products for retirement provision. But where do people live who are considered "heavily insured"?

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Securing the heat transition with data models

According to the Federal Environment Agency, renewable energies account for just 16.5 percent of final energy consumption for heating and cooling. Because the starting situations in the municipalities are different, the heat turnaround needs data above all. A guest article in energate | messenger (published by Energate GmbH, a specialist publisher for the energy industry in German-speaking countries) with Norbert Stankus.

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Esri UC 2022: The Mappiest Place on Earth

After more than two years of limited contact and virtual events, the Esri User Conference was finally held again in early July as a face-to-face event in California. More than 14,000 GIS users and Esri partners gathered in San Diego. The latest GIS trends and challenges of our time took place in direct exchange.

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Location analysis city: Dessau to-go? 

Metropolitan regions, economically strong individual locations and major cities with universities and colleges, but also some secondary locations without metropolitan character, are affected by the increased demand for housing. But is this the case in all cities?

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Which regions/cities are underserved?

Climate point: E-car. Registration figures are rising, but can the charging infrastructure keep up? As "data e-mobility experts", we have therefore made some calculations on this based on our current charging station cadastre and the latest registration figures for e-vehicles. Our dashboard shows you the current development.

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Charging station infrastructure needs valid data

Energy industry and cities between hurdles and successes for a climate-smart future. Germany's cities face enormous challenges in achieving the goals of the energy transition. The flood of new e-vehicles on Germany's roads requires a suitable charging infrastructure. This can be achieved through a targeted and data-based approach.

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