About BALIZ

Mission
BALIZ analyzes the geospatial industry and provides strategic orientation in this field. BALIZ is a dynamic business and result-oriented company. BALIZ is aware of geospatial current events and is inspired by the geospatial and IT business best practices and particularly by new models stemming from Web 2.0.

BALIZ provides information, support and orientation about supply and demand.

Coordinating the Supply of Geospatial Products and Services
BALIZ’s mission is to guide geospatial industry players toward the organisation of all aspects of their products and services offer, whether they be at the market analysis stage or at the marketing stage.

Orienting the Demand for Geospatial Products and Services
BALIZ’s mission is to guide users of geospatial products and services in the definition of their needs and in the orientation of all aspects of their demand (technologies, data, processes, know-how), whether they be at the cogitative, acquisition or implementation stage.

Why Chose BALIZ ?
BALIZ is a unique source of information and expertise to help in the coordination of geospatial products and services supply and demand. This can be achieved with:
- Broad technological intelligence and ongoing tendency monitoring;
- Strong business background inherited from past geospatial business creation and development experiences;
- Wide national and international network of professionals involved in the multiple aspects of the geospatial industry.

BALIZ is Unique
Most companies involved in the IT and geospatial industry offer one or many of the following items:
- Sales (software, ASP, data and geospatial data, equipment, etc.);
- Production (geospatial data, mapping, analysis, etc.);
- Integration;
- Technical support and training;
- Professional consulting services.

BALIZ is unique in the way that it is totally dedicated to providing strategic orientation services.

BALIZ’s strategic advice originates from a thorough contextual analysis and customer’s requirements evaluation. BALIZ has no tie to any type of services or solutions.

BALIZ’s strategic advice covers all possible options regarding technologies, data, solutions, expertise or approaches to a problem, and will help minimize subsequent intervention by helping the client to make the most rational choices.

BALIZ and Other Geospatial Industry Players

BALIZ does not claim to do what other players do in the geospatial industry. On the other hand, others can’t offer what BALIZ has to offer. BALIZ positions itself as complementary to the whole market, in the way that if offers real distinct neutral advice.

BALIZ is aware of that there are indeniable strenghts and expertise in the market (vertical offer) as well as in the technology and solution types (horizontal offer). BALIZ suggest to its client to consider and evaluate more than a single potential solution. Depending on context and mandate, BALIZ can also accompany the client in the selection of the optimal solution and provide supervision in the stages of acquisition, development and implementation.

BALIZ is an independant company. Luc Vaillancourt, its President and CEO is the unique owner.