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INTRODUCTIONWhat is Global Information System?According to Wikipedia, Global Information System is any information system that attempts to provide the totality of measurable data worldwide within a defined context. A global information system such as "GIS" integrates hardware, software and data for acquisition; manage, analyze and display all forms of geographically related information. It allows us to visualize and understand, interrogate and interpret data in many ways that show patterns, relationships and trends in the form of maps, reports and graphs. A global information system answers questions and solves problems by examining data in a way that is quickly shared and easily understood. The technology can be integrated into any company's information system structure as a way to integrate data so they can analyze and feed it to make critical business and planning decisions. GIS can integrate and relate any data with a spatial component, regardless of the source of the data, for example it is possible to combine the location of mobile workers, located in real time by GPS devices, in relation to the home of customers, located by address and obtained from the customer database. GIS can map this data, giving dispatchers a visual tool to plan the best routes for mobile workers or dispatch the closest worker to a customer. (Lsp4you, 2010)Implementing Global Information SystemsLooking at the current trend towards globalization, some companies manage increasingly complex networks of subsidiaries, customers and even suppliers. It manages complexity by providing chain information and also facilitating communication between these chain partners and managers' decisions in coordinating these networks. With the...... middle of paper ......types of global information system tools that use the Internet as a means to access, retrieve, and transmit distributed data, handle spatial analysis, and create multimedia presentations of the system global information. The general qualities of the global Internet information system are: object-oriented, distributed and interoperable. The data and functionality of the global information system can reside on different servers on the Internet and can be assembled and integrated locally as and when needed. It is necessary for the global Internet information system to be able to take advantage of distributed processing in access analysis models and distributed data in the network in order to achieve high interoperability. Microsoft's Distributed Components Object Model and the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker architecture demonstrate capabilities in this area.