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    Google Maps API

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Maps APIs allow developers to integrate Google Maps into a website or retrieve information from Google Maps.N/A

    RS2

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ARocscience offers RS2, an engineering application for the oil and gas industries that build models of rock and soil, steady-state finite element groundwater seepage analysis, and other analyses.N/A
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    Google Maps APIRS2
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    Google Maps APIRS2
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Google Maps APIRS2
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Google Maps APIRS2
    Small Businesses
    ArcGIS
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Maps APIRS2
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Maps APIRS2
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    It is most suited for someone who has a physical office, particularly a retail store which helps them to promote the business locally. I would suggest businessmen should use this tool for promoting their business in a more effective way. It is of least important if you are promoting your business digitally and don't have a physical location.
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    Rocscience
    RS2 is well suited if you are looking for a system that allows you to control and monitor access to your buildings to keep them secure. It provides good visibility of the current status of doors and also allows you to set alarms to notify you of various events. RS2 also gives you the flexibility to set local administrators that only control doors at their location.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Very simple UI, easy to use.
    • You can send your live location to a person who wants to meet you.
    • You can mark and pin the locations you are travelling regularly.
    • You can get the code of iframe for any location and embed it into your organization's website also.
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    Rocscience
    • RS2 gives you a good view of the current status of your doors from the RS2 Access It! application.
    • It allows you to assign permissions to admin users, so you can restrict them to only seeing the doors at their location. You can also restrict the modules they see and whether they can view, edit, and delete.
    • The system allows you to schedule door activities through timezones (i.e., set door x to unlocked from 8:00 am until 8:15 am Monday through Friday) to automate door activities.
    • The Event Listing report is configurable and allows you to see an individual user, groups of users, a single door, groups of doors, a specific flag (i.e., access granted, access denied, timezone activated, etc).
    • You can program macros to set ad hoc door activities.
    • The system allows you to import a building map marking all of the doors with access readers. You can also carry out ad hoc activities from the access readers on the map (i.e., set door to unlocked for x minutes, set door to unlocked until x o'clock, etc).
    • It has flexible inputs that we integrate with other notification systems for doing lock down from a panic button, so all doors lock when the button is activated.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Offline location required for some certain locations
    • Needs to reduce updates as it is comes from most of the updates.
    • Maps needs to be accurate in small areas in order to find destination.
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    Rocscience
    • The reporting is somewhat customizable, but not easy to work with. Most of the pre-packaged reports have been useless to us.
    • One of the biggest drawbacks is that the schedule does not use a calendar, so if you set and automated event for Monday through Friday, it is every Monday through Friday. There is a way to set a holiday to prevent an automated schedule from running on a certain day, but it is not easy to work with. A calendar view with exceptions would be much better.
    • On rare occasion, if one of the controllers has their network connection briefly disrupted, they do not come back online until we power cycle the controller. The doors still maintain their security, but you cannot make any changes or updates until you power cycle.
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    Usability
    Google
    Google Maps API is easy to use. Map visibility is good and accurate. Easy to search routes, distance, and travel time based on actual address to address locations or when quoting a zip code to zip code rate. The user interface is friendly and make usage easy and quick to obtain all the information I need to properly quote and plan my driver's routes.
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    Rocscience
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    Support Rating
    Google
    It does everything I need it to do and hasn't let me down yet. It has been a lifesaver for my roofing accounts. Most of my clients for the roofing belong to an Amish community with no computers and so forth. So being able to search the maps and look at the rooftops is imperative for those campaigns.
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    Rocscience
    Their annual support renewal is very high compared to others and they will not provide any support without the contract. We tend to work through our re-seller for support. They are trained, but still need to contact RS2 support for some issues and even if they open a support case, RS2 will not talk directly with us. They have been able to resolve most issues, but still have not determined why certain controllers do not recover if there is a network disruption.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google MAP API is one of the prominent ones as compared to others. In the selection process also we are [complete] with the API provider by Google MAP as it is quite stable.No doubt it is one of the best methods to implement or integrate as compared to any others which is available in the competition.
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    Rocscience
    We compared RS2 to the Hirsh Identiv Velocity system. The Velocity system did not allow us to schedule door access easily and was difficult to integrate with other systems. The Velocity management interface was cumbersome and did not allow us the flexibility of scripting door settings. With Velocity it was not easy to monitor or make changes to door status.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Definitely it gives optimum ROI to my organization which is positive sign.
    • My company overall business showed a positive growth rate.
    • I now get more no of people visiting my office .
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    Rocscience
    • It is hard to measure ROI because an access security system does not generate any revenue. It was implemented to secure our buildings and help protect students and staff.
    • It has positively impacted our business from a safety standpoint. It allows us to secure our buildings.
    • RS2 also integrates well with other systems to allow us to lock down our buildings in the event of a severe external threat.
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