ESRI News Around the Globe brings you news and events about ESRI in the mapping and geographic information system (GIS) industry. If you know someone who would like to be updated on the latest events regarding ESRI, please have them subscribe by visiting www.esri.com/myesrinews.

In This Issue

• ESRI Corporate Alliance News
• ESRI News
• GIS in Action
• Marketing Opportunities

ESRI's Mobile GIS and Trimble's GPS Technology Used for Emergency Planning in El Salvador
In developing countries such as El Salvador, disaster planning and preparedness are not generally a priority, and as a result, they are often hard-hit by disasters. The Digital Mapping Solutions pilot project in El Salvador, led by World Vision, a humanitarian relief and development organization; LumiMap, a U.S.-based GIS and technology organization; and the University of Mississippi, was designed to create digital mapping solutions for these countries to help them better plan, prepare, and respond to emergencies. Using ESRI's ArcIMS and ArcPad software and Trimble's GeoXM GPS units, the project team developed a set of tools for disaster planning and preparedness, risk assessment, mitigation, and emergency response.

How to Visualize a Business Ecosystem Using SAP and ESRI Technology
This article discusses the power of service-oriented architectures in a new field, enterprise ecosystem visualization. It explains how innovative mashups, using ESRI GIS and SAP customer relationship management (CRM) and NetWeaver Business Intelligence, allow companies to capture a wide variety of data, including demographic or statistical population, typical consumer behavior by region, and consumer traffic, which can be used to simulate and study the purchasing power of residents in certain areas and visualize this information on a map in three dimensions.

Tele Atlas and ESRI Support GIS Education with Conference Grants
ESRI and Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital map data and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, are teaming up to provide five educators from the United States and Canada with a trip to the 2007 ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC). Through the scholarship program, Tele Atlas will present recipients with $400 toward travel costs, and ESRI will provide complimentary admission to the conference in San Diego, California, June 16-19. EdUC provides a forum for members of the education community to come together and share their knowledge through user-led presentations, special interest group meetings, hands-on computer labs, and the EdUC EXPO.

Back to Top

ESRI Worldwide Business Partner Conference and Developer Summit
The ESRI Worldwide Business Partner Conference, March 17-19, 2007, in Palm Springs, California, attracted more than 700 decision makers, business leaders, and innovators from ESRI corporate alliances, business partners, hardware partners, and international distributors. The conference provided attendees with targeted sessions for sales, marketing, business development, and product positioning to give them real-world strategies and insight to help them align more closely with ESRI and drive more business to their companies.

ESRI would like to thank the following Corporate Alliances for their participation at the ESRI Business Partner Conference:

• Platinum Sponsors--Hewlett-Packard, IBM
• Gold Sponsors--Business Objects, NAVTEQ, Safe Software, Tele Atlas, Trimble
• Exhibitors--Citrix Systems, Inc., DigitalGlobe, Information Builders, Leica Geosystems, LizardTech

ESRI would also like to thank IBM and Microsoft for their sponsorship and participation in the ESRI Developer Summit . More than 1,100 developers attended the summit, March 19-22, 2007, in Palm Springs, California. In addition to the in-depth technical seminars, the summit also included a keynote presentation by Gartner's vice president and research director, Mark Driver, and a Plenary Session by senior members of ESRI's software development team.

GIS Is Providing a New Medium for Understanding
In this article, Jack Dangermond, founder and president of ESRI, explains the new and expanding role of GIS professionals--communicating our world using GIS technology. He addresses the fact that our world is changing rapidly, presenting many challenges, and explains how GIS is being used as a medium for people to understand, communicate, and collaborate to overcome these challenges. Dangermond also outlines some of the underlying GIS technologies that support this vision including ArcGIS 9.2.

Back to Top

DHS Selects ESRI for GIS Enterprise
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has signed an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) with ESRI that will enable the agency to deploy the full spectrum of ESRI GIS software throughout its organization. The comprehensive agreement provides the department with an easy and cost-effective method to provide enterprise-wide GIS software, professional services, and training to DHS employees. It will enable DHS to expand the use of GIS to mitigate, prepare for, and respond to events as well as secure U.S. borders, enable trade and transportation, and enforce U.S. law.

GIS Enables Groundbreaking E911 Application at Maui Police Department
The Maui Police Department (MPD) has improved its ability to locate and respond to emergency calls from cell phones by implementing a GIS-based E911 system. Using ESRI's ArcView and ArcInfo software to locate wireless callers who may be on the beach, hiking off road, or camping at a remote site, the system provides police and others with the ability to help those in need who might be hard to locate otherwise. In addition to the E911 system, MPD uses ArcGIS for a number of crime analysis and preplanning activities including classifying crimes by geographic area, date, and time; performing visual incident analysis; and event coordinating and modeling as well as tactical and strategic planning.

Back to Top

ESRI International User Conference
June 18-22, 2007
San Diego, California

Maximize your market presence and customer relationship efforts at the 27th Annual ESRI International User Conference (UC) by becoming a sponsor or exhibitor. The UC is the largest GIS event in the world. More than 14,000 professionals involved or interested in GIS technology, software, data, and services are expected to attend this year.

Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities also exist for concurrent events, the ESRI Education User Conference and the ESRI Survey & Engineering GIS Summit.

Summer Advertising Deadlines for ArcNews and ArcUser
Continue building on the productive relationships you develop with ESRI customers at the ESRI UC by placing an ad in the summer issues of ArcNews and ArcUser. Scheduled to be delivered in the weeks following the User Conference, an ad in the summer issue is a great way to reinforce to readers the value of your products and services.

Advertising deadlines for the summer issues of ArcNews and ArcUser are May 17, 2007, and April 11, 2007, respectively. Materials deadlines are approximately three weeks later. Rate and frequency discounts are offered to ESRI Corporate Alliances. More information is available at www.esri.com/advertise or by e-mailing ads@esri.com.

Back to Top