ESRI/Microsoft Connections, Winter 2008

In This Issue

• ESRI/Microsoft News
• ESRI Corporate Alliance News
• Product News
• GIS in Action
• ESRI in the News
• Marketing Opportunities

ESRI/Microsoft News

New ESRI/Microsoft Video
ESRI president Jack Dangermond and Microsoft corporate vice president Ted Kummert describe how their corporate partnership delivers innovative GIS solutions. ESRI and Microsoft provide everything you need to analyze, understand, question, interpret, visualize, and derive actionable information from geographic data. Watch the video.

ESRI Sponsors Microsoft Launch Wave 2008
ESRI is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the Microsoft Launch Wave 2008, a series of 200 worldwide events celebrating the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008. ESRI exhibited at the kickoff event in Los Angeles, California, on February 27, which brought together IT pros and developers from around the world. Attendees had the opportunity to get an in-depth, up-close look at the new products and meet with Microsoft partners as well as members of the development teams who created the new technologies. ESRI's Nate Johnson demonstrated the power of GIS with the new SQL Server 2008 spatial type on stage in the IT Pro-Data Platform breakout session. In the ESRI booth, attendees were able to gain an understanding of GIS and the ArcGIS platform and also see some of the new integration possibilities with Virtual Earth that will be available with ArcGIS 9.3.

Microsoft Sponsors 2008 ESRI Federal User Conference
ESRI thanks Microsoft for its Gold sponsorship of this year's Federal User Conference (FedUC), which took place February 20-22 in Washington, D.C. The FedUC is the largest geospatial conference dedicated to federal professionals. This year, 2,100 leaders, decision makers, and GIS professionals gathered to discover and hone key techniques for meeting goals and addressing issues in their respective lines of work. A combination of sessions, speakers, and social events provided opportunities to discover more about the geographic approach to decision making and explore how to fully leverage GIS technology.

ESRI Announces Support for the Spatial Enhancements of SQL Server 2008
ESRI's ArcGIS 9.3 software, the next scheduled release of ESRI's ArcGIS suite, will take full advantage of the new spatial technology in the upcoming release of SQL Server 2008. As shown at the November SQL Server 2008 community technology preview (CTP), Microsoft Corporation is extending the use and value of spatial technology by integrating it directly within SQL Server at no additional cost.

ESRI and Microsoft Technology Combat Air Pollution in Europe
Europe has made great strides in reducing its significant air pollution problem by implementing a Web site that uses ESRI and Microsoft technology to provide a visual and easily understandable presentation of air quality measurement data for the public, enabling comparison of air quality conditions across national and regional borders. The central database, based on SQL Server 2005 and ArcSDE technology, stores all hourly ozone measurements, interpolated ozone raster datasets, and geographic base data. The ozone interpolation engine is a Windows service developed in Visual Studio .NET 2003 and ArcObjects that runs in the background and performs the spatial interpolation of hourly ozone measurements.

ESRI/Microsoft Training

Introduction to Programming ArcObjects Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
(Instructor-Led Course)
This course provides an introduction to the ArcObjects libraries and teaches how to develop custom GIS applications.

Developing Applications with ArcGIS Server Using the Microsoft .NET Framework
(Instructor-Led Course)
This course provides an introduction to the ArcGIS Server Web Application Developer Framework and teaches how to develop ArcGIS Server Web applications that consume different types of GIS services.

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ESRI Corporate Alliance News

Integeo and SpotOn Deliver Power of Location Intelligence to Cognos Customers
Integeo, ESRI business partner and Australian geospatial business intelligence (BI) pioneer, recently announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with business intelligence consultants SpotOn Systems to provide Cognos customers throughout North America with the ability to create on-demand, interactive, GIS-enabled reports. Under the agreement, SpotOn Systems has integrated Cognos BI solutions with ESRI ArcGIS using Integeo's award-winning Map Intelligence, a rapid application development platform that enables organizations to quickly build custom, location-intelligent solutions without any programming.

SAP Furthers Innovation for Public Sector with New Community for Public Security
Building on its leadership in providing solutions to support public-sector agencies worldwide, SAP recently launched an industry value network (IVN) for public security. ESRI is among the inaugural participants in the IVN for public security. Much like the IVN itself, ESRI helps organizations meet their critical public security requirements with flexible, open, standards-based technology while providing service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based GIS integration capabilities for the geospatial enabling of a common platform and applications from SAP.

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Product News

Latest Release of ArcGIS Explorer Now Available
ESRI recently announced the latest release of ArcGIS Explorer. The new version (ArcGIS Explorer 9.2, Build 440) includes more ways to customize maps, efficient methods of communicating information about features on custom maps, and instantaneous navigation to target areas around the globe. The ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center can help users find content such as maps and layers and includes a number of enhancements.

ESRI's ArcPad 7.1 Mobile GIS Software Now Available
ArcPad 7.1 and ArcPad Application Builder 7.1, the latest versions of ESRI's mobile GIS software for data collection and field mapping applications, have been released. ArcPad products are designed for various industries and organizations wanting to extend the benefits of GIS from the office to the field. The new enhancements in ArcPad 7.1 will help experienced users, as well as field personnel new to GIS, capture field data quickly and easily.

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GIS in Action

Earth Observation and GIS Industries Take Action against Climate Change
Planet Action is a nonprofit collaborative initiative founded in June 2007 by satellite imagery industry leader Spot Image and joined by ESRI as a founding partner. Its purpose is to encourage the earth observation industry and GIS professional communities to address climate change by supporting projects that investigate and assess climate change and its environmental impacts. By assisting in and funding projects that will support understanding of and action on environmental impacts, the Planet Action initiative hopes to strengthen international cooperation and response to climate change problems.

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ESRI in the News

ESRI Received "Strong Positive" Rating in Leading Analyst Firm's MarketScope for Public Safety Geographic Information Systems
ESRI received a Strong Positive rating, the highest possible, from Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. ESRI received this rating in the report entitled MarketScope for Public Safety Geographic Information Systems, 2H07, by Bradley Williams and Jeff Vining and published October 31, 2007. Gartner considers companies receiving a Strong Positive rating to be "providers of strategic products, services, or solutions" and recommends that existing customers "continue investments" while potential customers "consider the vendor a strong strategic choice."

ESRI Founder Jack Dangermond Predicts the Future of GIS
Government Technology, January 2008 - Jack Dangermond shares his insight about where GIS technology is now, where it is headed, and what impact new mapping tools are making on what used to be a field accessible to only the technically skilled.

Software Can Aid Search for Missing Kids
The Salt Lake Tribune, January 2008 - Thanks to software donated to the Utah Child Abduction Response Team (CART), the chances for a happy ending have gotten better. The program provides clues, pinpoints suspects, and narrows the search in seconds.

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Marketing Opportunities

2008 ESRI Showcase Events
ESRI invites you to review sponsor and exhibitor opportunities available to you for our 2008 showcase meetings and conferences. These events will enable you to meet with ESRI customers, learn about their projects, and demonstrate your GIS solutions. For more information on any of the following events, visit the conference Web page or contact Megan Williams.

	2008 ESRI Southeast Regional User Group Conference April 14-16, 2008 Jacksonville, Florida Exhibitor Opportunities
	2008 ESRI Business GIS Summit April 27-30, 2008 Chicago, Illinois Exhibitor Opportunities
	ESRI Education User Conference August 2-5, 2008 San Diego, California
	ESRI Survey & Engineering GIS Summit August 2-5, 2008 San Diego, California
	ESRI International User Conference August 4-8, 2008 San Diego, California
	ESRI Health GIS Conference September 28–October 1, 2008 Washington, D.C.

Summer Advertising Deadlines for ArcNews and ArcUser
Reserve your space now to be included in the summer issues of ArcNews and ArcUser to reach the 14,000 attendees expected at this year's ESRI International User Conference in addition to the hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Advertising deadlines for the summer issues of ArcNews and ArcUser are May 1, 2008, and April 24, 2008, 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.

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