About Us

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Background and Vision

ObjectFX Corporation is a privately-held software company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with offices in Maryland and Virginia to service U.S. Government customers. Since our founding in 1994, ObjectFX has pursued the goal of enabling mainstream developers, systems integrators and IT groups to add geospatial capabilities to their applications without requiring detailed knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS). Today ObjectFX markets its products in a growing and evolving technology segment that International Data Corporation (IDC) has labeled “spatial information management” (SIM). IDC has stated that "SIM technology is migrating from specialized GIS applications to broad relevance within IT ecosystems.”  At ObjectFX we believe that business and government organizations have only begun to tap the potential value of spatial and temporal data in their information systems, and it is our mission to help our clients to realize that value.

Products and Services

ObjectFX provides products and solutions that enable organizations to leverage the full value of dynamic spatial and temporal data to gather intelligence, monitor and improve operations, and respond more quickly to changing conditions. Our Java-based geospatial software products provide an enterprise-class platform for developing and deploying map and imagery visualization, geospatial complex event processing, government map symbology and other mission-critical operations using Web 2.0 and client/server approaches. ObjectFX software is deployed in a broad range of industries in which location and timing are critical, including national defense, intelligence, homeland security, transportation, supply chain management, field force management, and other location based services.

Applications and Customers

Our technology serves as a foundation for a wide range of software applications that include Military Situational Awareness, C4ISR, Command and Control, Intelligence Collection and Analysis, Data Fusion, Terrain Analysis, Dynamic Operations Management, Wireless Services, Mobile Asset Management, Map & Route, Location Analysis, and Network Visualization.

Solutions built with ObjectFX products are installed at leading organizations such as Boeing, FedEx Custom Critical and Air Ops, JB Hunt, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, United Airlines, Sprint, TRW, Qualcomm, Qwest, U.S. Army and the U.S. Postal Service.  

Record of Innovation

 2009
 SpatialRules 3.0 - First Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine for geospatial data
 2008 First map symbology web service for MIL-STD-2525 and DHS symbols
 2006 SpatialRules 2.0 – First spatiotemporal rule system  
 2004 Rules and Events 1.0 – First specialized spatial rule system
 2002 First to develop military symbology standard with a scalable, customizable solution
 2001 Struts-based Web Application Framework
 2000 First vendor to deploy geospatial components as Enterprise Java Beans
 1998 Java application server 
 1997 First Java geospatial platform on the market
 1995 Object-oriented (SmallTalk) geospatial components