The “GHI” – as I like to call it – is a little piece of software that you run in geomedia as an extention. It enables your spatial records viewed through geomedia to interact with your asset inventory records within a Hansen Asset Managment System. The details of the many workflows it enables are kind of industry-specific, but in my mind, the key advantage is that you can automatically add records to your asset inventory in Hansen based on the contents of your asset inventory in GIS. The allows to you use your GIS for what it is best at – managing a list of stuff, and using the asset management system for what it is best at – recording information about business processes that occur against that stuff.

As far as versions, my testing has shown that the GHI works in the latest geomedia software (v6.1.x) but only works in the legacy flavor of Hansen, i.e. version 7.x. Looking forward, Hansen (actually now “Infor Government Solutions”) is implementing its GIS integration using standards-based web services, so the need for specialized integration software will kind of erode. That said, I have not had the occasion to get my hands dirty with the new stuff so i cant speak much to it.

Question for you on the GeoMedia/Hansen interface mentioned above: what “interface” exactly is that, for example, versions and names?

Kevin