History & Capabilities

PlanGraphics was founded in 1979 by John C. Antenucci, who remains the company's president and CEO today. The company developed an early focus on turnkey information technology implementations, with a particular focus on spatial information management technologies known as geographic information systems (GIS) and automated mapping/facilities management (AM/FM) systems.

Since those first projects more than two decades ago, PlanGraphics has continually expanded its range and scope, both through helping clients implement promising new technologies (e.g., GPS, digital orthophotography, high-resolution satellite imagery, data warehousing, and the Internet) as they have become available, and through vigorous pursuit of new methods, approaches, and capabilities as both GIS and IT have become more integrated, more suited to enterprisewide application, and, of course, ever more capable.

PlanGraphics today offers a wide array of capabilities, both in Web-enabled GIS implementation and in other IT applications that integrate and facilitate the access, analysis, and interpretation of disparate data sets. Our goal, as always, is to help clients make wise use of new technologies, adopting those that offer real benefits, but avoiding risky and unproven ones:

• We are independent management consultants who develop a variety of information technology and GIS solutions to meet the specific needs of our clients. We do not make the software, but we fill a variety of roles to make state-of-the-art software work for a particular organization. We are fully integrated GIS implementers providing our clients with business-based total information technology solutions.

• We serve as architects who work closely with the client to conceive an appropriate solution, whether it be a new computer application, an entire information system, or a fundamental reworking of an existing system.
• We function as design engineers who define and refine specifications for an information system and lay out pragmatic, cost-effective ways to achieve a solution.
• We serve as general contractors who manage the work of several types of vendors, including software and data conversion vendors. We guide clients through the process of acquiring technology, installing networks and building and integrating databases to increase the value of their geographic and spatial information.
• We function as facility managers, providing on-site professionals who manage and bring technical experience to operate and maintain information systems.
• We serve as auditors of information systems. We look for improvements to existing systems and keep up with ever-changing technology to ensure that clients are always on the cutting edge of the best practices in the industry.

In short, we build new systems and applications and transform existing legacy systems into systems that provide solutions emphasizing the value of locational data. We extend departmental databases into enterprise assets. We take concepts involving data about places, time, people and things and build practical, cost-effective capabilities that can enable a workforce to better meet the needs and demands of its customers.