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ESRI Corporate Alliance News
Oracle Spatial and ESRI Are Key to Nature Conservancy's Efforts
Since 1951, The Nature Conservancy has worked to secure the ecosystems that sustain human, plant, and animal life on our planet. Together, Oracle and ESRI provide critical spatial technology that enables the Conservancy to stay ahead of climate change, poorly planned developments, and other threats to the environment. Oracle Spatial and Oracle Map Viewer, with ESRI's ArcGIS software, allow for analyses to understand where to best deploy their limited resources and what kind of returns they are getting by region. This type of spatial-based decision making has grown in popularity not just with environmental agencies but throughout the commercial sector worldwide as well.
DigitalGlobe Announces New Content Partnership for Virtual Earth with Microsoft
DigitalGlobe is a preeminent provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, so it stands to reason that its premium imagery would be an excellent complement to Microsoft's Virtual Earth technology. The new content partnership agreement will give Microsoft access to DigitalGlobe's vast ImageLibrary, which contains more than 460 million square kilometers of premium earth imagery as well as new images being collected every day by its growing constellation of satellites.
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Product News
ArcGIS Server 9.3 Radically Simplifies Users' Experience
With the release of ArcGIS 9.3, ESRI provides a new set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that extend the range of what developers can do with mashups. These APIs give mashup developers more opportunities to rapidly build lightweight, focused applications on top of ArcGIS Server using JavaScript, Flex, and many other scripting languages. GIS-powered mashups empower users to solve real problems by incorporating the business knowledge and resource investments made by the organization and putting it in the hands of the decision makers and analysts who rely on trusted information.
New White Paper: ArcLogistics: The Routing and Scheduling Solution for Fleet Management [PDF]
ArcLogistics software is a complete solution for complex routing and scheduling problems and helps minimize costs, maximize productivity, and improve customer service. ArcLogistics offers intelligent routing by taking into account actual network drive times, distances, street network restrictions, vehicle characteristics, customer characteristics, and more.
User Productivity Improved in the Business Analyst 9.3 Product Suite
ArcGIS Business Analyst is a suite of product solutions that addresses a series of business-related questions such as Where should I put my next store? How is my current store performing? Is my merchandise what consumers in the area want? and, Am I offering the right services to my population segments? In today's uncertain economy, businesses and government agencies more than ever need reliable and effective tools to help them decide where to locate; relocate; expand; or, in some cases, consolidate facilities.
Online Seminar: Introduction to ArcGIS Mobile 9.3
ArcGIS Mobile is a mobile GIS platform that allows you to provide access to GIS services wirelessly to a range of mobile devices. This seminar will show you how ArcGIS Mobile can contribute to improved field productivity, increased accuracy of geographic information, and instant data sharing with others in the field or office. This seminar is designed to introduce users to the new ArcGIS Mobile product and how it can help them support their mobile workers.
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GIS in Action
Music Video: Map of the World as We Know It
GIS Day 2008 was the inspiration for this music video that puts GIS-centric lyrics to the tune of R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" hit from the 1980s.
Podcast: How Banks and Financial Institutions Use GIS to Stay Afloat during Times of Economic Crisis [MP3]
Shelli Stockton, the finance and banking industry manager at ESRI, explores how financial institutions, ranging from large national corporations, such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), to local credit unions, use GIS during times of economic crisis to help them optimize their business and resources.
Karen Siderelis Selected as Interior Department's First Geospatial Information OfficerM
Secretary of the interior Dirk Kempthorne announced at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference in San Diego that a new position was being created within the Department of the Interior (DoI)-geospatial information officer. Fulfilling this announcement, Karen Siderelis was recently appointed to the position. Siderelis previously served as associate director for geospatial information and chief information officer for the U.S. Geological Survey, a DoI agency. She will be responsible for providing leadership in advancing the National Spatial Data Infrastructure through the department's national and international responsibilities and ensure coordination of GIS efforts in all nine DoI bureaus.
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ESRI in the News
Charity Puts Relief Work on the Map
United Kingdom charity MapAction is a small and innovative player in a sector dominated by huge nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). As such, smart use of technology is key to its mission. The core part of the work is done by GIS technology donated by ESRI.
FAA Awards ESRI Multiyear Enterprise License Agreement
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), like any large organization, seeks efficiency in its operations. The recent purchase of an ESRI multiyear enterprise license agreement will facilitate the intention to expand its use of GIS to make U.S. air transportation safer and more efficient.
ESRI Publishes Open Data Model for Managing Information about Assets and Operations
ESRI, along with other organizations in the facilities management industry, has published a data model for creating, storing, and sharing information about structures and their assets. The building interior space data model (BISDM) is GIS based and will allow companies to more effectively share facilities data and collaborate with other technologies commonly used for real property portfolio, asset, and facilities management. The model can be easily extended for a variety of other purposes, for example, landscape-level planning and site selection, building-level energy and environmental management, and security and emergency preparedness.
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Marketing Opportunities
ESRI Worldwide Business Partner Conference (BPC)
Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are now available for this annual event that brings together professionals from ESRI's partner programs to examine the latest ESRI products and services, successful sales and marketing strategies, and future business directions. The event will take place March 22-24, 2009, at the Wyndham Hotel and Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California.
Sponsor the ESRI Developer Summit (DevSummit)
The 2009 DevSummit will take place March 23-26, 2009, at the Wyndham Hotel and Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California. The DevSummit is dedicated to GIS, mapping, and spatial developers and provides a forum where these professionals can gather to learn firsthand how to build and deploy better GIS solutions in their jobs. This is an excellent sponsorship opportunity only open to ESRI Authorized Business Partners, Corporate Alliance Partners, and Hardware Vendors. Learn more.
ESRI Business GIS Summit: Call for Presentations
The ESRI Business GIS Summit will take place May 4-6, 2009, in Denver, Colorado. Professionals from the commercial sector will gather to learn how business GIS solutions provide a more competitive edge, drive business innovation, and improve operational efficiency. Knowledge sharing is an essential part of this summit. We encourage the user community to communicate best practices, successes, and innovative GIS applications with others who face the similar day-to-day challenges in commercial and related industries. The deadline to submit an abstract is January 23, 2009.
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