ESRI and IBM are working together to deliver complete GIS solutions to our customers.

IBM and ESRI offer enterprise-scale spatial information management and geospatial analytic solutions for IT executives and managers of large organizations, who are responsible for GIS, or interested in the power of new technology like GIS to improve IT’s support of their organization.

Our partnership combines the strengths of both companies:

• IBM's worldwide leadership in information technology, SOA, information management, server optimization, and services.
• ESRI’s nearly 40 years of GIS software leadership, function, reliability and scalability, industry domain expertise, and services skills.

Together, ESRI and IBM provide unmatched GIS-enabled solutions and services that deliver new business value, enhance business workflows, and lower costs.

The IBM Business Partner SOA Specialty emblem signifies IBM Business Partners who make a very significant investment in IBM SOA products and technologies through the SOA industry framework. ESRI is proud to have earned this specialty distinction with ArcGIS software and web services that easily connect and add geospatial capabilities, features, and functions to the IBM SOA Foundation.

ESRI SOA-enabled solutions for selected industries can be found in the IBM SOA Business Catalog, a single, comprehensive online directory of reusable SOA content from IBM and invited IBM SOA Specialty business partners.

"IBM and ESRI, a 2008 IBM Public Sector Top Star business partner, are committed to improving the health, education, security and prosperity of citizens and nations around the world... We are grateful to ESRI for the work they are doing. Together we are making a difference in people's lives by delivering innovative solutions to the world's greatest challenges." Pamela Kaplan, Vice President of Marketing, IBM Global Public Sector.