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ESRI and Citrix Webcast - How to Accelerate, Extend, and Secure Your ESRI GIS
On March 12, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. (EDT), ESRI and Citrix will host a 60-minute live webcast featuring the CIO of the National Association of Counties (NACo), IT professionals from the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), and ESRI senior enterprise architect Ty Fabling discussing how adding Citrix solutions to existing GIS implementations will give more users faster access. SWFWMD will explain how it leverages Citrix to provide fast, secure, and streamlined access to its GIS and 84 other business-critical applications. Register today!
Integeo and SpotOn Deliver Power of Location Intelligence to Cognos Customers
Integeo, ESRI business partner and Australian geospatial business intelligence (BI) pioneer, recently announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with business intelligence consultants SpotOn Systems to provide Cognos customers throughout North America with the ability to create on-demand, interactive, GIS-enabled reports. Under the agreement, SpotOn Systems has integrated Cognos BI solutions with ESRI ArcGIS using Integeo's award-winning Map Intelligence, a rapid application development platform that enables organizations to quickly build custom location intelligent solutions without any programming.
SAP Furthers Innovation for Public Sector with New Community for Public Security
Building on its leadership in providing solutions to support public-sector agencies worldwide, SAP recently launched an industry value network (IVN) for public security. ESRI is among the inaugural participants in the IVN for public security. Much like the IVN itself, ESRI helps organizations meet their critical public security requirements with flexible, open, standards-based technology while providing service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based GIS integration capabilities for the geospatial enablement of a common platform and applications from SAP.
ESRI/SAP Webinar - WaterOne Achieves Integrated Asset Management
On February 20, 2008, ESRI business partner Impress Software hosted this 60-minute webinar that featured a presentation by ESRI/SAP user WaterOne, a quasi-municipal water utility that provides water for approximately 140,000 services in Johnson County, Kansas. View the archived presentation to learn how WaterOne integrated its ESRI GIS and SAP asset and client information using Impress for GIS for improved asset reliability and operations.
An Integrated ESRI/SAP Approach to Enterprise Asset Management for Utilities Webinar
On December 6, 2007, ESRI, Impress Software, and Accenture hosted this live panel discussion on the trends causing utilities to rethink operations and how leading companies are taking a new approach to asset management - an integrated SAP-ESRI approach - to achieve operational excellence while improving the experience of their customers. This discussion examines the business benefits of enterprise asset management and provides insight for utilities (water, gas, and electric); publicly held, privately owned, and government-owned businesses; and utility executives and decision makers from finance, operations, customer service, and IT. View the archived presentation.
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GIS in Action
Intelligence-Led Policing Gives Shelby, North Carolina, a Crime-Fighting Advantage
The Shelby, North Carolina, Police Department has built a GIS-based computer statistics (CompStat) system using ESRI ArcGIS software that is helping to lower crime rates and better share information. Map-based tools help the agency see exactly where crimes have been reported and effectively respond to events in a dynamic fashion.
Virtual Ink for GIS Facilitates Mobile Data Collection
Last year, Freese and Nichols, Inc., a Texas-based engineering firm, integrated the use of virtual ink for GIS into its field operations to achieve significant time and cost savings. Using ESRI business partner Adapx' Capturx for ArcGIS data capture platform, Freese and Nichols seamlessly combined GIS and virtual ink technology, allowing field engineers to digitally update the geodatabase with pen strokes.
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ESRI in the News
ESRI Received "Strong Positive" Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's MarketScope for Public Safety Geographic Information Systems
ESRI received a Strong Positive rating, the highest possible, from Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research on and analysis of the global information technology industry. ESRI received this rating in the report entitled MarketScope for Public Safety Geographic Information Systems, 2H07, by Bradley Williams and Jeff Vining and published October 31, 2007. Gartner considers companies receiving a Strong Positive rating to be "providers of strategic products, services, or solutions" and recommends that existing customers "continue investments" while potential customers "consider the vendor a strong strategic choice."
ESRI Founder Jack Dangermond Predicts the Future of GIS
Government Technology, January 2008 - Jack Dangermond shares his insight about where GIS technology is now, where it is headed, and what impact new mapping tools are making on what used to be a field accessible to only the technically skilled.
Software Can Aid Search for Missing Kids
The Salt Lake Tribune, January 2008 - Thanks to software donated to the Utah Child Abduction Response Team (CART), the chances for a happy ending have gotten better. The program provides clues, pinpoints suspects, and narrows the search in seconds.
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Marketing Opportunities
Gain the Geographic Advantage at the 2008 ESRI Business GIS Summit
The 2008 ESRI Business GIS Summit will be held April 27-30 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This one-of-a-kind forum brings industry leaders and business professionals together to share best practices, ideas, and tools for helping commercial organizations and related industries increase revenue and operational efficiency as well as enhance communication and knowledge sharing. Become a sponsor and showcase your products, services, and educational offerings to more than 350 attendees from banking, real estate, retail, insurance, hospitality, media, utilities, health care, and other industries.
2008 CA/HI/NV Technology Showcase Schedule Now Available
These half-day Technology Showcases feature ESRI's latest technologies and solutions from ESRI business partners. While most attendees come from within an hour's drive of the event, many travel greater distances. Showcases are one of the primary means for ESRI to convey its product and technology messages to customers in the region. Your participation provides excellent opportunities to take advantage of this communication vehicle and to position your products and solutions.
There are still exhibitor spaces available. To participate as an exhibitor [PDF], contact Scherrie Sadler, ESRI, at ssadler@esri.com.
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