The Orbis Blog

How Cloud Technology Has Revolutionized Forestry

What effective industry leaders are doing to enable their teams to be successful.

Orbis Admin Amplifies to Match License Renewals

Why our busiest time of year is the most rewarding

Empower Your Program by Switching Your Data Management Strategy

We know data is valuable. It must be. Governments pay hackers millions of dollars to get it. Five of the top six companies in the world by market valuation are data companies.

Missing Money

What is the cost of misplaced data?

Data Security: Why It Matters to Timberland Investors

From communication to entertainment to productivity to business, it’s most definitely a digital world – which means that getting on board and embracing technology is no longer the problem it once was. There is a new problem, however, and it’s this: How do you safeguard business-sensitive information without investing thousands of dollars in technology infrastructure?

Do you really know what’s on your land?

When it comes to investing, perhaps the most basic tenet is this: Make an informed decision. This is true for mutual funds, real estate, and, of course, timberlands. For timberland investors, making an informed decision about forest lands always starts with doing due diligence – including knowing for sure what’s on those thousands of acres of timberland. But can you really know what’s on the land? And if so, how?

Tax Time: How paying property taxing THIS way can save you thousands

When it comes to timberland investments, how do you handle your property taxes? Catch-as-catch can? With a complicated and time-consuming spreadsheet? Or with careful planning, tracking, and follow up by state and county?

Going Digital in Forestry

The world is constantly moving, ever-changing and continuously adapting to new inventions, trends, and arguably the most wide-spread, technology. So how do we, in such a niche environment as forestry, stay in line with these adaptations?

4 Ways to Use GIS to Make Better Decisions

Good decision making, say researchers, is predicated on accurately tracking, measuring, and managing data while limiting emotional influences and personal biases. At Orbis, we’ve developed a number of GIS solutions to help the timberland investment industry make better, more informed decisions through confidence in their data to drive results.

All of our solutions revolve around four key principles, which we've put together to show how GIS can impact decision making for the better.

6 Reasons You Should Have a Data Integration Plan

Data integration combines both business and technical information from separate sources onto a unified platform, so it can be managed more effectively and made available to the right people at the right time. Ultimately, integration is critical for providing insight into business processes, and making it easier to manage and share big data. In this article we will be outlining some of the many advantages to integrating your data.

Preventing Property Damage from Active Fires with GIS

Our thoughts and prayers for safety go out to those in the West during this dangerous time of active wildfires. It's imperative to be aware of what's happening on your property at all times. Today, thanks to years of technological advance, remote sensing systems are now used to monitor and map the location of forest fires. At Orbis, we incorporate LIVE services such as this into our clients' forest data management systems in an effort to keep their foresters safe and informed about dangers on their land so that they can ultimately prevent loss of life and minimize their property damage.

Orbis’ Participation in the Recent 1.1 Million Acre Texas Timberland Transaction

Brought on as a pressure valve by Campbell Global, Orbis supported the disposition team over the last 607 days through utilization of our Land Investment Technical Analysis Service (LITAS).