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ESRI Corporate Alliance News
Upcoming Corporate Alliance Trade Shows
ESRI will be participating in the following Corporate Alliance trade shows in October:
SAS
Premier Business Leadership Series
October 3-4, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
This invitation-only executive event was developed by SAS in association with BetterManagement to address executive-level business trends, insights, and solutions with an enlightened global perspective. ESRI and SAS will lead a joint session, Using the Power of Spatial Analytics to Deliver a Deeper Understanding of Risk, to discuss how the combination of GIS, business intelligence, and predictive analytics is providing insurers with a more effective method of modeling and mitigating risk.
Microsoft's Industry Solutions University FY08 EMEA
October 8-9, 2007
Barcelona, Spain
ESRI, as one of Microsoft's key industry partners, will be participating in the Industry Solutions University (ISU), Microsoft's largest internal training event. ISU was developed to provide attendees worldwide with customized training from leading customers, partners, and industry experts.
IBM Information On Demand
October 14-19, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Visit ESRI in booth #214 to learn more about how ESRI's upcoming ArcGIS 9.3 release will provide spatial data management support to IBM DB2 9 for z/OS on System z. By integrating ArcGIS spatial information management, client solutions, and Web services with System z, the world's most reliable computing platform becomes the most accessible and secure geographic application server available for public and private enterprise implementations.
Business Objects Insight Americas 07
October 15-18, 2007
Orlando, Florida,USA
ESRI is a Silver Sponsor of the conference and will be located in booth #S18. Stop by to learn how GIS can leverage your business intelligence (BI) system to analyze and monitor supply chains, optimize delivery routes, manage location-influenced risk, and make overall better business decisions.
For more information on ESRI's presence at any Corporate Alliance trade shows, contact Megan Williams.
Visit ESRI at IBM's Business Intelligence Virtual Symposium on Demand
Don't worry if you missed the live virtual event; all the materials are available on demand until December 18, 2007. Visit ESRI's virtual booth to find out about support for IBM DB2 9 for z/OS on System z in the upcoming ArcGIS 9.3 release. While visiting the booth, check out the latest ESRI BI news and podcasts and learn how ESRI BI solutions can help you find optimal sites for new store locations, market effectively to specific customer segments, and profile your best customers and find more like them. Get a no-cost GIS-based market profile and site map for your area of interest by visiting our booth and contacting an ESRI representative.
Information Builders Delivers Next Generation of Location Intelligence
Information Builders announced the availability of a WebFOCUS integration solution for ESRI's ArcGIS Server, extending the robust reporting capabilities of its BI solution through the power of GIS. The new WebFOCUS integration offering leverages the power of ESRI's ArcGIS Server 9.2 to deliver location intelligence complete with tabular, graphic, and dashboard-based views of geographic information.
City of Los Angeles Chooses IBM DB2 9 Viper to Improve GIS
The City of Los Angeles, California, has selected the DB2 9 Viper data server to replace its existing database management system. DB2 9 was selected to increase performance and lower the costs of running the city's ESRI GIS, which provides the ability to store and access comprehensive geographic information for the Los Angeles area as well as Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, and other counties. The new capabilities of DB2 9 will help the city's IT staff fine-tune database performance as more applications are migrated to the new GIS repository, critical in helping to speed decision making.
ESRI and National Geographic Teach about Africa
National Geographic's MapMachine and ESRI's Geography Network will help hone students' skills in geography and geospatial analysis. The MapMachine, powered by ESRI technology, allows anyone to explore the earth through the creation of customizable maps at any scale. One lesson involves using MapMachine to study where snow falls in Africa. Read the article.
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Product News
New Data in ArcGIS Business Analyst 9.2 Improves the Accuracy of Marketing Analyses
ArcGIS Business Analyst desktop software now includes ESRI's 2007/2012 demographic data update and segmentation, business, and shopping center data. This data update is the most current and accurate information about the U.S. population. The software innovations delivered at the 9.2 release, coupled with this update to the industry's best datasets, create the optimal business analysis solution: ArcGIS Business Analyst.
ArcWeb Services Flex API Now in Public Beta
The ArcWeb Services Flex application program interface (API) is now available as a public beta. Built using Adobe Flex 2, this API offers Web 2.0-style mapping capabilities and significant benefits for organizations looking to change the way they do business. These new offerings let developers focus much less on presentation and layout and spend more time on integrating content that is relevant to a particular business problem or end user workflow.
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GIS in Action
Call and Response
GCN, August 2007 — After the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the city's fledgling Wi-Fi network allowed rescuers to access the city's geographic information system, which uses ESRI tools. That access was crucial in getting maps to the command center set up along the Mississippi River banks.
New Orleans: The State of the City
Time, August 2007 — ESRI's 2005 and 2007 population data for New Orleans, Louisiana, was used as one of the sources to create this map[PDF] for the August 13, 2007, issue of Time magazine. The map illustrated an article about population changes in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.
Join in Celebrating GIS Day
Do you have plans for Wednesday, November 14, 2007? Join the community of GIS professionals, students, and educators from more than 80 countries who have marked their calendars to celebrate the ninth annual GIS Day. Hosting a GIS Day event is fun, easy, and rewarding. You can help spread geographic awareness, promote GIS, recognize the impact the GIS community makes on vital everyday tasks, and help people understand real-world problems. Simply registering your event online will get you one step closer to becoming involved in the global celebration.
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Marketing Opportunities
ESRI International User Conference 2008 Call for Presentations
It's time to start planning for the 2008 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC)! Abstracts are now being accepted for the conference, scheduled for August 4-8, 2008, in San Diego, California. Collaborating with your customers on a paper submission provides a unique way to showcase your products and services to the more than 14,000 attendees expected at next year's conference. Abstracts are also now being accepted for the Education User Conference and the Survey & Engineering GIS Summit, which will take place concurrently, August 2-5, in San Diego. The submission deadline for all abstracts is November 2, 2007. To submit an abstract for any of these events, visit Call for Presentations.
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