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The forest industry is moving over to the Net rapidly.
Operators in the sector are now offering more solutions based
on Internet technology, e-portals to the forest, that are
aimed at improving operations and diversifying services.
Finnish forest companies are now expanding their online services
outside companies to interest groups, such as transportation
and harvesting firms as well as forest owners. Behind it all
lies an improvement in wood procurement, which will mean better
cooperation with transportation and harvesting firms and a
more diversified customer service for forest owners.
"This is a very important breakthrough in forest industry
operations. It can be compared to the change that came in
banking as net services became more widespread," stresses
Mikko Kiviniemi, the managing director of the software company
GISnet Solutions Finland Oy.
From paper to the Internet
GISnet, which specializes in spatial solutions, develops
various network service applications for the forest industry.
For example, NetForestTM has been designed to make forest
planning information publicly available interactively on the
Internet for operators in the forest sector.
A forest owner can check information about his woodland estate
on the Internet and discuss the management and use of his
estate interactively with someone who has good all-round experience
in forestry. Physical distance is no longer an obstacle to
communicating. Forest companies can offer forest owner/customers
new services such as online map working, online orders, invitations
to tender and forest plans.
A firm can use solutions implemented with the same technology
to monitor information relating to itself on real time. Harvesting
firms see planned felling areas from the service and transportation
firms see routes and storage places. The technology also makes
it easier to plan payment traffic.
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