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American Suzuki Motors Corp.

Learn how American Suzuki Motors Corp. used ArcWeb Services to create a dealer locator service on its Web site that customers can use to search for vehicles. By typing in their ZIP Code, customers get a list of all dealers located within a 50-mile radius along with hyperlinks to dynamic map displays and driving directions. [PDF]

DS Waters

DS Waters used ArcWeb Services and Aligo's mobile workforce application to increase the productivity of its delivery operations. With ArcWeb Services, its staff was able to view and analyze data tracked in real time. This helps the company locate its field technicians and provide better feedback to customers. [PDF]

Ecology and Environment, Inc.

Ecology and Environment, Inc., used ArcWeb Services to integrate mapping technology into a Web-based ride share application called GreenRide. ArcWeb Services provide current maps and data not only with searchable carpooler information but also includes additional tools such as maps of park and ride lots as well as rail and bus stops. [PDF]

Edens & Avant

Edens & Avant needed a way to quickly analyze and research potential new shopping center developments to market new locations to its retail clients. The company built an application using ArcWeb Services to display an interactive map that provides information on competition, planned housing developments, other sites available, zoning information, and new road projects. [PDF]

Lamar Advertising Company

Learn how Lamar Advertising Company used ArcWeb Services to implement GIS content and capabilities into its online application service. As a result, the improved mapping system gives Lamar's sales staff the ability to edit maps on the intranet to use for client proposals, search for all available billboard panels within a chosen radius, and display them on a map. [PDF]

MotionBased Technologies

MotionBased Technologies used ArcWeb Services for its online subscription service to provide mapping functionality and data behind its GPS tracking service. Users log on to the site, upload training statistics from an outdoor activity such as biking or running, and then view their route and training statistics not only on a chart or graph but also on different types of maps. [PDF]

National Domestic Violence Hotline

Learn how the National Domestic Violence Hotline used ArcWeb Services to help quickly assist victims by finding the closest location of emergency resources. The application automatically identifies a caller's general location and then creates a detailed map of the area. Advocates no longer have to search through printed maps; now they can quickly direct the caller appropriately, based on the caller's location. [PDF]

Sportsim

Learn how Sportsim used ArcWeb Services to build a Web application for users to upload onto maps, view, and analyze their performance data from any outdoor activity. With ArcWeb Services, Sportsim users have access to maps and satellite imagery that, combined with their own personal training and workout information, can be shared with other athletes anywhere in the world. [PDF]

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3 Steps in One Hour: Building a business intelligence application with ArcWeb Services JavaScript API

Learn how the ArcWeb Services JavaScript API provides a quick and easy way to build a business intelligence application. This article outlines three quick and easy steps to building a business intelligence sample application on the Web using only HTML and JavaScript.
ArcUser, January–March 2007 [PDF]

Delivering Geographically Enhanced Security Services with GIS

Learn how International SOS Online integrated ArcWeb Services into its Security Alert Service, enabling users to display international security concerns on a map. Now international travelers and others can view security concerns worldwide in an interactive mapping interface through the Web site.
ArcNews, Spring 2006

World Wildlife Fund Launches WildFinder Portal

Read about how the World Wildlife Fund is using ArcWeb Services in its WildFinder Portal to provide an interactive map, accessible through the Internet, that provides a powerful search tool for identifying species within ecoregions around the world.
ArcNews, Spring 2006

Building Applications Using ArcWeb Services with Open Source Tools

Through step-by-step instruction and using Axis and Ant as developer tools, this article provides a tutorial for learning how to build an application using ArcWeb Services version 2 and open source software.
ArcUser, April–June 2006 [PDF]

Applications Meet the Challenge

Read this ArcUser article about the three winners chosen in the ArcWeb Services Challenge in 2006. The applications chosen for first, second, and third place were submitted and created using ArcWeb Services by Argo Navigation, Ecology and Environment, and Sportsim, respectively.
ArcUser, October–December 2005

Ingenuity Fuels ArcWeb Services Challenge Winners

This ArcNews article details the three winning applications that were chosen from among 29 entries in the ArcWeb Services Challenge in 2005. The competition was started as a way to encourage new, creative applications that used ArcWeb Services.
ArcNews, Fall 2005