In today’s data-driven business landscape, harnessing the full potential of available information for informed decision-making is crucial. However, dealing with the vast amounts of siloed, unstructured data contained within disparate business units poses significant challenges. According to Gitnux, “Up to 50% of employee time is wasted dealing with tedious data quality problems.” Refining and structuring this data for actionable insights, while ensuring its relevance to specific business areas, is no easy feat. Since only “3% of data within an enterprise satisfies quality standard,” (Gitnux) the significance of content management cannot be overstated or ignored. Fortunately, Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc.… read more →
Rockville, MD – April 13, 2023 – PTFS invites you to join us and more than 4,000 geospatial professionals at GEOINT 2023 in St. Louis, MO, from May 21-24 where we will be showcasing the latest release of Knowvation GS. Be sure you come by our Booth #1823 and enter to win a Holy Stone HS710 Drone. This is the 20th anniversary of the show and PTFS will be presenting new Knowvation GS product capabilities and discussing our new partnerships with Amazon AWS and Carahsoft. PTFS will be demonstrating our latest Knowvation 6.11 Geospatial Content Services Platform as well as new… read more →
Rockville, MD – June 16, 2022 – PTFS is scheduled to exhibit at this year’s Esri UC from July 11 until July 15 in San Diego, CA. This annual event is regarded as one of the most valuable conferences to people in the geospatial community. The conference showcases the utility and future of Esri’s mapping and spatial analytics software ArcGIS. Representatives from PTFS will be available to chat or schedule virtual meetings from the conference website. Attendees will be able to learn more about the company, our flagship enterprise Content Services Platform (CSP), and most importantly for conference goers, Knowvation… read more →
Rockville, MD – April 24, 2022 – Progressive Technology Federal Systems (PTFS) is very excited to announce we will be attending and exhibiting at USGIF’s GeoInt 2022 show. The show will be held April 24-27 at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, CO. Stop by booth 1531 and find out how PTFS can help with your knowledge and geospatial data management needs in an increasingly challenging environment. “This is my favorite tradeshow, and we are excited to get to attend in person! I look forward to speaking to each other face to face.” Said PTFS CEO John Yokley.… read more →
Learn more about FINDABILITY and PTFS with CEO, John Yokley featured here in Global Business Leaders Magazine. In this article, PTFS is cited for having “successfully developing creative strategies and translating them into cost-effective solutions like Content Services Platforms (CSPs).” Best known for providing knowledge management, geospatial, and declassification solutions, Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) was founded in 1995 by John Yokley to serve Federal customers’ Content Management, Digitization, System Integration, and Technical Support needs. John co-founded PTFS and has served as President and CEO of PTFS since the company was founded. He has a long history of successfully developing… read more →
Rockville, Maryland – April 27, 2020 – Progressive Technology Federal Systems Inc. (PTFS), developer of Knowvation GS, an enterprise Content Services Platform (CSP) suite, today announced they were awarded a Phase I contract by AFWERX for utilizing the application to meet U.S. Air Force mission requirements. Knowvation GS is a web-based geospatial content management system (enterprise geospatial CSP) that provides capabilities for Object Based Production (OBP), Activity based Intelligence (ABI) and analytics. Powerful search capabilities find and organize structured and unstructured content no matter where it’s stored in the enterprise. Fully modular, Knowvation GS enables users to search on geospatial… read more →
Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) created an excellent short video to help their staff quickly learn the essentials for using Knowvation to search and discover content across the enterprise. UDOT deployed Knowvation as their enterprise search tool to as an interface for a myriad of structured and unstructured content repositories (e.g. Esri, ProjectWise, Oracle DB, SharePoint, and others). Now UDOT staff can use full text, geospatial, and metadata search techniques to locate relevant data across the enterprise regardless of its location. Knowvation functionality can be accessed from either Knowvation or via a widget in ArcGIS. Future enhancements include leveraging Spy… read more →
PTFS created a new two-minute video about our eContent Knowvation Services Platform (CSP) application. It discusses the challenges faced by agencies managing their rapidly expanding information resources and discusses how PTFS and Knowvation can help overcome these challenges. Knowvation enterprise Content Services Platform (CSP) To help with business decisions an organization must know and, most importantly, understand all its information. The Knowvation enterprise Content Services Platform (CSP) uses a robust content management strategy along with technology that allows organizations to find and use their data regardless of its source repository or location. Knowvation automatically discovers data stored in file shares,… read more →
Progressive Technology Federal Systems Inc. (PTFS), a provider of Knowvation GS, an enterprise Geospatial Content Services Platform (enterprise geospatial CSP), will showcase the latest version of Knowvation GS at the GEOINT 2019 Symposium being held June 2-5 in the San Antonio, TX Convention Center. PTFS will demonstrate the critical role the system plays in data discovery, display and dissemination for Intelligence, Defense, and Civilian Agencies. “The latest release of the Knowvation GS [v6.0] provides customers with a platform that enables adding many configurable 3rd party bolt-on tools and provides users with quicker and easier access to enterprise data stored in… read more →
PTFS will be exhibiting at the annual GIS for Transportation Symposium for its 4th consecutive year from April 23rd – 26th, 2019 at the Omni Orlando Resort at Champions Gate in Florida. The GIS-T symposium is a wonderful opportunity for Government and Private industry personnel in the Transportation Industry to share experiences, learn about the latest state-of-art software and learn more in general about GIS technology and how it is shaping the industry. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) sponsors the annual GIS for Transportation Symposium. PTFS is proud to exhibit the latest enhancements and customer… read more →