Troysis also creates, builds and integrates software, data and services to help customers realize greater value from location based information and drive more insightful decisions.Our vision is to enable every business and government "worldwide" to harness the power of location. Our expertise and technology provide the catalyst, helping organizations everywhere to be more competitive, more efficient, more responsive and more effective. We make it possible for them to visualize everything in a new way. GIS is a system of computer software, hardware and data, and personnel to help manipulate, analyze and present information that is tied to a spatial location. Simply put, a GIS combines layers of information about a place to give you a better understanding of that place. What layers of information you combine depends on your purpose - finding the best location for a new store, analyzing environmental damage, viewing similar crimes in a city to detect a pattern, and so on. Mapping where things are lets you find places that have the features you are looking for and to see where to take action.

One of the main benefits of GIS is improved management of your organization and resources. A GIS can link data sets together by common locational data, such as addresses, which helps departments and agencies share their data. By creating a shared database, one department can benefit from the work of another - data can be collected once and used many times. The old adage "better information leads to better decisions" is true for GIS. A GIS is not just an automated decision making system but a tool to query, analyze, and map data in support of the decision making process.For example, GIS can be used to help reach a decision about the location of a new housing development that has minimal environmental impact, is located in a low-risk area, and is close to a population center. The information can be presented succinctly and clearly in the form of a map and accompanying report, allowing decision makers to focus on the real issues rather than trying to understand the data. Because GIS products can be produced quickly, multiple scenarios can be evaluated efficiently and effectively.