3DP and Nearmap comparison, page-3

Hey Kfann,

Good to see you here. Appreciate your input.

You said:

"And I can readily see businesses using BOTH platforms....especially if 3DP goes down the same analytics/intelligence path as NEA."

Thought it opportune to revisit the AR last year, and the last Quarterly, for those who may not have read it.

Pointerra are clearly going down the same analytics/intelligence path as NEA, as you suggest.

Not resting on their laurels.

2018 Annual Report:

R&D and Software Development

During the year development of Pointerra’s cloud platform for 3D data continued in line with the planned roadmap, with valuable feedback from users driving incremental functionality enhancements to both the user interface and the back-end service components.

A significant allocation of resources was again directed towards R&D efforts to enhance the current platform offering and in the development of new capabilities to support the growing opportunities being presented by 3rd party partnerships, particularly in the area of 3D data analytics, which the Company expects to become as important to growth as the current DaaS solution.

The year saw a significant upscale in the rate of data ingestion as the total number of 3D data points hosted, with customers and partnership activities continuing to mature and drive increasing data ingestion volumes, dataset sizes, and functionality.

The Pointerra data ingestion and analytics API’s are also being enhanced via feedback gained through working with customers and partners including AAM, Autodesk and Bentley Systems who are seeking to take advantage of the power and scalability of Pointerra’s platform.

In anticipation of a step change in the level of data ingestion that will result from closing potential opportunities in the sales pipeline, the development team continued to focus on ways to further scale the platform, both from a data ingestion/hosting perspective, and the ability to run value-adding services on the data that is being hosted.

The development team are in active discussions with several 3rd parties (both vendors and customers) regarding the usage of existing API’s as well as the provision of additional API capabilities to support streaming of data into 3rd party systems. This is likely to drive a greater focus on API-related development activities into FY19.

Pointerra’s technology development team is deep in talent and experience and in early in 2018 we were pleased to welcome Russell Rogers, a highly experienced engineer with many years of geospatial sector experience, to the team. Russell has added bandwidth to the existing team and has already leveraged his considerable experience from working at Nearmap to bring new capabilities and perspectives to Pointerra.

From the Quarterly:

Research and Development

As outlined previously, R&D efforts continue to focus on three strategic areas:

1. Development of a platform to underpin the delivery of point cloud analytics to Pointerra customers;

2. Developing an initial catalogue of analytics (either internally developed, or through partners); and

3. Broadening the platform to support storage and visualisation of complementary 3D data types, including imagery, CAD and vector layers.