ESRI Around the Globe July 2007
ESRI takes part in more than 600 trade shows each year, most of which are industry focused. Visit
for a complete list
and discover which shows may be of interest to you and your users.
For more information concerning our participation or to schedule a demonstration at any of the shows, contact Megan Williams.
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September 26-28, 2007
Stockholm, Sweden
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October 7-10, 2007
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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October 8-11, 2007
Nashville, TN, USA
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October 29-31, 2007
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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October 31-November 2, 2007
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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November 5-7, 2007
Denver, CO, USA
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ESRI Around the Globe brings you news about how ESRI and its Corporate Alliance partners deliver customer solutions for GIS across the
enterprise. If you know someone who would like to receive their own subscription, send them to
. Additional ESRI Electronic and
Print publications are
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In This Issue
ESRI Corporate Alliance News
APOS Integration Kit Customer Reference - Integrating ESRI and Business Objects
to Alex Bellak from
the City of Troy, Michigan, as he describes Troy's interesting implementation of the
. This powerful
bidirectional bridge between two industry-leading business intelligence solutions allowed the city to leverage location
intelligence with reporting analytical capabilities using ESRI ArcIMS or ArcGIS Server and Crystal Reports Server XI
Release 2.
Public CIO magazine, July 2007 - Chief information officers (CIO) are no longer viewing GIS simply as a mapping tool.
More municipalities are creating enterprise GIS departments; therefore, the level of interest in combining GIS data with other
systems, such as SAP's enterprise resource planning and Information Builders' business intelligence, is getting stronger. Read
the full
featuring ESRI/SAP and ESRI/Information
Builders customer references.
Like other information outlets, the 2006 Washoe County Live Election Mapping Web site monitored vote counts, but it also used GIS to
give viewers the additional component of real-time updated maps at the voter precinct level. Viewers of the Live Election Mapping Web
site were able to monitor dynamic maps as the results were counted. The mapping application uses the election results data in SQL Server
to create maps based on voter precincts stored as an ArcSDE layer.
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ESRI News
ESRI announces a new distributorship for its
in
Africa with the opening of ESRI Eastern Africa Ltd. (ESRI EA). This expansion is in response to the evolving needs of the GIS market
in the region. ESRI EA will provide software sales, support, and service to users in Kenya, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda,
Tanzania, and Uganda.
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Product News
ESRI's Mapping Center Web Site Helps GIS Users Make Better Maps
ESRI recently announced the launching of
, a new
Web site that helps users learn about cartographic concepts and best practices for mapmaking with ArcGIS. The site is designed to provide
quick answers to mapmaking problems. Site visitors will find information and sample maps displaying a wide variety of cartographic techniques
and effects along with tips and instructions on how to reproduce the featured effects on their own maps.
In cooperation with a business reporter at the Dallas Morning News, ESRI produced information for a feature article in a recent
edition that described the types of people who live, work, and consume products and services in the six-county area around Dallas, Texas.
In addition to the current composition of these neighborhoods, the data was also used to predict demographic changes such as population growth,
the aging of the area population, and changes in neighborhood diversity that are likely to occur in the next five years.
Do you want to learn more about ArcGIS Online and find out how you can quickly start using the services? Then tune in to the complimentary
training seminar Introduction to ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Online provides foundation layers, such as high-resolution imagery, streets, and
topographic maps, to help you jump-start your GIS work.
Access Premium Satellite Imagery through ArcGIS Online
You can now use
or
to connect to ArcGIS Online
via the Web and freely access the premium satellite imagery service. This service provides seamless, high-resolution imagery at approximately
1-meter resolution for the contiguous United States and 500- and 15-meter resolution for the world. The premium imagery is available at no cost
as part of the public ArcGIS Online beta program.
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GIS in Action
Khatib & Alami, ESRI's distributor in Beirut, Lebanon, demonstrates an unusual implementation of GIS: generating a family
tree. One of the main drawbacks of a typical hard-copy family tree is the density of information and the inflexibility of
updating and adding members. The ArcGIS advanced editing capabilities, with the possibility of selecting, moving, adding,
copying, and pasting, made data updating a flexible and enjoyable task.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission recently began introducing a GIS module in its three-day mandatory new employee orientation.
The training provides an overview of the enterprise GIS program with an introduction to the Web-based GIS Basemap Viewer application. This
new GIS segment allows 300 employees annually to become familiar with the program.
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Marketing Opportunities
October 7-10, 2007
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
The Health GIS Conference brings health professionals together to share and discuss successful approaches to using geography
to improve health and human services research, management, policy decisions, and public health and hospital preparedness as
well as health care delivery. Be part of the GIS Solutions EXPO to share your applications and services with the health GIS
community.
your
space now!
October 8-11, 2007
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Join the ESRI Electric & Gas User Group (EGUG) in Nashville, Tennessee, to explore how GIS serves electric and gas utilities. Share
your products and services with GIS software users, developers, analysts, project managers, and senior-level managers from across
the energy utility community as a
of the conference. The Gold Sponsorships are already sold out, so do not delay!
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