The result of STAR-APIC's continuous ability to be first on technological innovations, NeXt has proved to be the ideal web-based professional platform for deploying a wide range of new G.I.S. applications that really bring their benefits to the majority of end-users.
Not only are those applications enabling the consultation and exploration of the G.I.S. with the maximum of user-friendliness but they are also really offering the full functionality of a professional G.I.S. system when applications are ambitious, including full data creation and update facilities.
NeXt is in use at many municipalities, local and central authorities to offer new services to citizens, it is used by utility and telecom companies to query/manage their networks, to manage hundreds of thousands of maps and drawings, etc.

The unique selling points of NeXt :
- Full compatibility with the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) professional standard.
- 100% professional server-based sollution; no "plug-in" nor any local data on the client.
- Many feature for geospatial querying.
- Provides all features of a GIS (including graphic and alphanumeric editing capabilities).
- Fully independant and compatible with most of the GIS industry standard data formats (including DXF, DWG, DGN, Shapefiles, and Oracle Spatial, and the major raster data formats) via the concept of information server.
- Provides the ability to combine several datasets in the above mentionned data formats.
- Multiserver and multiformat : the database may be located anywhere on the network in any GIS format and synchronized automatically.
- Sophisticated administration and development toolkits.
- And many more benefits.