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June 22, 2007 Universal Mind Teams with ESRI and Adobe to bring rich user experience to the GeoWebRich Internet applications a key future strategy for distributed GISWestfield, Massachusetts (June 22, 2007) – Universal Mind Inc. today announced it will team with ESRI and Adobe to create a new generation of rich Internet applications (RIAs) that leverage ESRI's enterprise GIS platform and Adobe® Flex™ software to make geographic analysis and access easy and ubiquitous. Increasingly, the web is becoming geographically enabled, and GIS is playing a much broader role in delivering business intelligence and analysis to the larger community of business and non-professional users. As a result, GIS has grown into an integral component of enterprise applications supporting critical and real-time decision-making across a broad spectrum of industries and markets. Universal Mind, ESRI and Adobe are collaborating on a new generation of web-enabled GIS applications that leverage the best user experiences and technology from Adobe to bring a rich interactive GIS experience to every Internet browser. The goal is to provide distributed collaboration and interconnection with dynamic, continuous GIS content that ensures a more meaningful understanding of geographic impacts and influences, together with fast, natural and intuitive interaction. "This effort is part of ESRI's strategic vision for bringing geographic analysis and data interpretation to any device, anywhere within the GeoWeb with unprecedented immediacy and ease of use" says Jack Dangermond, President ESRI. "These are three great companies that share a common view of the importance of sharing critical information using its geographic context and enabling geo-enhanced decision-making." "We are excited to see Universal Mind embrace Adobe Flex and ESRI's GIS platform in the creation and delivery of its new Web-enabled GIS application," said Michele Turner, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "Through the combined solution, Universal Mind is making geographic analysis data more accessible and easy to use, allowing business professionals and government decision makers to quickly and efficiently utilize geographic information to help solve critical issues." "Universal Mind will showcase its new LaunchPad™ platform at the ESRI User Conference, to be held June 18th to 22nd in San Diego, California. LaunchPad is a web application framework built using Adobe Flex software and delivered to a standard browser with the ubiquitous Adobe Flash® Player. LaunchPad provides a highly engaging "Web 2.0" user experience that delivers more effective understanding and improved interactivity, analysis and visualization of data trends using both geographic and time-based context. The common architecture underlying these applications uses Adobe Flex 2 and Adobe LiveCycle® Data Services. It combines server or desktop data from ArcGIS geodatabases, public geographic information from ArcWeb Services and ArcGIS Online with virtually any data from enterprise and legacy sources or other publicly available repositories available on the Internet. LaunchPad delivers the benefits of geographic analysis through cost effective, instantly deployable front-end capabilities to business professionals and government decision makers both on the Web and through corporate networks. "Universal Mind has a proven track record for innovation and producing premiere applications based on web services technology from Adobe" says CEO Todd Cieplinski. CTO Tom Link pointed out that: "We're excited to play a role in helping to mature the geographic capabilities of the web beyond simple maps and direction finding. Working with today's increased bandwidth, sophisticated service-oriented architecture, and better access to backend data sources, we can truly address real business problems. By combining ESRI ArcGIS with Adobe Flex, Flash Player and LiveCycle Data Services, we can provide far more powerful and intuitive end-user solutions on a variety of platforms and devices." # # # Contact Information: |
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