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Prompts, workflows, automation, and agents represent different ways to put AI to work. As AI takes on more of a business process, leaders need greater clarity around ownership, data access, human review, safeguards, and measurable value.
A useful AI roadmap should force decisions. It should tell leadership what deserves attention now, what should wait, what conditions must be met before moving forward, and what evidence will justify the next investment.
Good AI governance should remove guesswork. Clear boundaries, defined accountability, appropriate oversight, and practical escalation paths can help employees use AI responsibly while keeping routine work moving.
Dockerizing local development gives every developer the same environment and cuts setup from days of documentation to minutes. Johnny Pongetti explains how NGS runs Keycloak and OpenID Connect locally, what broke, and when a team should skip the auth layer.
Giving employees access to AI tools does not automatically create adoption. Effective AI adoption requires clear workflows, defined expectations, practical enablement, and management reinforcement so AI becomes part of how the work gets done.
AI tools can get a working prototype in front of customers in a weekend, and that is a gift. The trap is believing the prototype was the hard part. Scale, security, operations, and usability are where a product actually gets built.
Nine years into a software career, I joined NGS and handed Claude the wheel on a neighborhood-matching app. Here is how planning, phased epics, stacked PRs, and fresh-eyes code reviews worked out, and what I would change next time.
NGS is pleased to announce the 2026.3 release of CoreSpatial Server, Basemaps, Map Manager and Portal, with GeoServer 3.0, a FIPS 140-3 Server build and tile collection projects in Map Manager.
Companies do not need to start their AI journey with a platform or a long list of use cases. A practical starting point is a business workflow that matters, occurs often enough to improve, can be pursued responsibly, and gives leadership an outcome it can measure.
What our Claude Days of Summer showed about the job now: our engineers decide what to build, when to stop, how it's architected, and whether it works. The typing is the part the agent does. So what do we call them?
Many organizations have growing AI activity but limited strategic direction. A practical AI strategy connects business priorities to workflows, ownership, responsible-use decisions, and measurable outcomes so leaders can decide where AI should create value and what should happen next.
The Q3 2026 edition of Ground Truth, the NGS newsletter: Mike Gianoni invests and joins as Strategic Advisor, NGS AI Advisory launches, CoreSpatial 3D arrives, CoreSpatial is procurable on Tradewinds and AWS Marketplace, and our engineers weigh in on AI, interoperability, and open weights.
Mike Gianoni, President and CEO of Blackbaud and Chairman of the Board at Teradata, has made a strategic investment in NGS and joined the company as a Strategic Advisor.
The barista was the answer all along. A follow-up to “Machines vs. Intelligence” on the hybrid: intelligence mounted inside a machine, from autopilots and adaptive cruise to robots and Dune’s Butlerian Jihad, and why the autonomy dial is the control that matters most.
A Star Trek replicator could out-cook, out-brew, and out-build any single-purpose machine ever built. So why does the espresso machine still win? A look at what separates a fixed design from open-ended intelligence, and why designing machines might be the real opportunity AI opens up.
Meta's new open-weight model release changes where enterprise data has to travel to get value out of AI. It's the same argument NGS has been making about open-source GIS for years, applied to a new layer of the stack.
NGS brings the security discipline behind its defense and intelligence work to commercial teams seeking to put AI to work with appropriate controls and clear accountability.
CoreSpatial 3D adds streaming 3D to CoreSpatial Portal through a self-hosted deployment of Cesium ion. It brings global 3D content, 3D Tiles from your own data, and native 2D/3D integration, all on your own infrastructure.
NGS is pleased to announce the 2026.2 release of CoreSpatial Server, Basemaps and Map Manager, with continued security hardening across the stack and a Portal 2026.2 release candidate in testing.
TAK is a powerful platform. But when your geospatial ecosystem doesn't speak the same language, critical data disappears exactly when it matters most.
CoreSpatial 2026 Q1 release including Server, Map Manager, and Portal, a significant Portal update combining multiple upstream MapStore2 releases.
NGS is pleased to announce the 2025.4 release of CoreSpatial Server, Basemaps and Map Manager, and previews roadmap items for 2026.
NGS has been selected for award under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), a 20-year IDIQ giving federal customers a streamlined path to buy our engineering, geospatial, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps services.
The 2025.3 release of CoreSpatial Server, Basemaps and Map Manager, with a Portal release and generally-available FIPS compliance on the way.
CoreSpatial Server enables GeoServer to run in FIPS mode on RHEL and containerized environments. Learn why this matters for secure government deployments.
Whether you're working in disaster response, public safety, environmental monitoring, or national defense, the need for accurate, flexible, interoperable geospatial tools is constant.
The 2025.2 release includes major security and performance updates across the stack, with a new Portal release and GeoServer FIPS compliance in progress.
How open-source GIS solutions like GeoServer, PostGIS, and CesiumJS are powering secure, flexible, cost-effective mission-critical government systems.
The 2025 Q1 release of CoreSpatial Server, Map Manager and Portal, including critical security patches and a wave of new Portal features.
A good folder structure isn't about rigid rules. It's about a setup that makes your project scalable, maintainable, and easy to navigate.
CoreSpatial Portal is now released, the newest addition to the CoreSpatial ecosystem, a customizable web GIS for all skill levels.
Our 2024 Q4 release of CoreSpatial Server, Basemaps, and Map Manager, containing critical security patches recommended for immediate update.
NGS announces the launch of CoreSpatial, combining high-performance mapping, data management, and analysis into one powerful, secure, scalable solution.