ESRI/Microsoft Connections, Spring 2009

ESRI/Microsoft Connections brings you news about how ESRI and Microsoft deliver customer GIS-based solutions across the enterprise. If you know someone who would like to subscribe, send them to www.esri.com/microsoftconnections. Additional electronic and print publications are also available.

In This Issue

• ESRI/Microsoft News
• ESRI Corporate Alliance News
• Product NewsGIS in Action
• ESRI in the News

ESRI/Microsoft News

ESRI Expands Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth) Access in GIS by Teaming with Microsoft
ESRI is making Bing Maps accessible throughout the ArcGIS product family. As part of ArcGIS Online at the ArcGIS 9.3.1 release, Bing Maps content is now available at no cost to ArcGIS Desktop users on maintenance. In addition, ArcGIS Server comes with a built-in 90-day Bing Maps evaluation, after which an annual, transaction-based subscription can be purchased through ESRI. ArcGIS Server users will also be able to leverage Bing Maps geocoding and place-finding capabilities. See what's new in ArcGIS Online 9.3.1.

ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight Now Available as a Beta Product
The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight enables you to integrate ArcGIS Server and Microsoft Bing Maps services and capabilities in a Silverlight application. You can create interactive and expressive Web applications leveraging ArcGIS Server and Bing Maps resources - such as maps, locators, and geoprocessing models—and Silverlight components - such as grids, tree views, and charts. Interactive samples are available.

Enspiria Solutions Ties Together ESRI's GIS Software and Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools to Create a Spatially Enabled Utilities Executive Dashboard
Adam Tonkin, solutions architect at Enspiria Solutions, an ESRI business partner, discusses ESIntial, Enspiria's executive dashboard solution for utilities. This solution integrates utilities' performance systems with their spatial data, using ESRI's ArcGIS Server and Microsoft PerformancePoint Server and SharePoint, to provide a single portal view into their businesses.
Listen to the podcast. [MP3]

ESRI and Microsoft Technology Serve as Backbone for UC Santa Barbara Marine Protection Project
MarineMap, a project of the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, supports geospatial marine data collection and dissemination projects. This project includes building applications for the Marine Life Protection Initiative, which supports the goals of California's Marine Life Protection Act.

Microsoft at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference
ESRI International User Conference
July 13-17, San Diego, California

We thank Microsoft for its Platinum Sponsorship of the 2009 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC). Microsoft will be in booth #1421 at the Exhibit Pavilion.

Microsoft is also a sponsor of the Public Safety Showcase in the exhibit hall. ESRI will hold two Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings related to Microsoft technologies, as listed below. You must be registered for the ESRI UC to attend.

SQL Server SIG
Tuesday, July 14, Noon-1:00 p.m., Room 4 Join SQL Server users and ESRI and Microsoft staff to discuss best practices in SQL Server implementations as well as SQL Server 2008 features and what's coming in future releases.

.NET SIG
Tuesday, July 14, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m., Room 28 A This annual meeting allows users of Microsoft developer technologies, including .NET and Silverlight, to learn about the latest in new development work from both ESRI and Microsoft.

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ESRI Corporate Alliance News

City of Kitchener Implements Pioneering Infrastructure Management System
Under a government mandate that requires Canadian municipalities to include an accurate account of their tangible capital assets in annual financial statements for 2009, the City of Kitchener, Ontario, partnered with ESRI Canada, SAP, IDS Scheer, and Loki Innovations to create an enterprise solution. The implementation, which leverages ArcGIS technology with SAP and Riva Modeling software, is specifically designed to bring together the financial and nonfinancial data required for PSAB compliance. Access to the new infrastructure management system will benefit every city department including facilities management, operations, utilities, engineering, and finance.

Small Governments Benefit from ESRI/Tele Atlas Relationship
The longstanding relationship between ESRI and Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, has been expanded by Tele Atlas' participation in ESRI's Small Government Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program. This ESRI ELA program provides local governments, with populations of 100,000 or fewer, with affordable enterprise-wide licenses for ESRI's ArcGIS software and Tele Atlas' comprehensive street data to power essential GIS deployments. The widely received ELA program is successfully enabling participating local governments to better serve their citizens with functionality to perform emergency response and preparedness, permitting and inspection, incident/crime analysis, hazardous materials inventory, planning, and many other vital government functions and services. Learn how Jefferson County, Kansas, is benefiting from an ELA license.

NAVTEQ Selected by ESRI for ArcLogistics Navigator Solution
ArcLogistics Navigator is powered by NAVTEQ map data for the United States, Canada, and Europe. NAVTEQ's database is a comprehensive collection of navigable attributes, including turn-by-turn directions, the latest street geometry, address information, and speed limit data. NAVTEQ's extensive database provides ArcLogistics users with a high level of accuracy and helps them find the most efficient routes to their destinations.

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Product News

Newly Released ArcGIS 9.3.1 Unlocks the Potential of Your GIS
This release of ESRI's integrated collection of GIS software products focuses on improving the performance of dynamic map publishing and increasing the visibility of geographic information. Listen to this podcast [MP3] to learn what's new in ArcGIS 9.3.1.

GIS Called Key to California's Future
Leaders from the public and private sectors of the Golden State recently gathered at the Conference on California's Future to discuss how GIS can help officials work around problems crippling the state. To successfully integrate comprehensive GIS solutions across state agencies, an enterprise GIS strategy, coupled with strong executive leadership, was deemed California's best hope for dismantling state IT silos and facilitating cross-agency data sharing. Also vital to the mission is getting the public to better understand the role GIS can play in the state's success.

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ESRI in the News

ESRI's Jack Dangermond: GIS Brings Better Government Transparency
ESRI president Jack Dangermond explains the role of GIS in smart grid, stimulus tracking, and open government.

Tasked to Put the "E" Back in ESRI
ESRI's environmental industry manager, Dr. Robin Smith, discusses the current use of GIS in managing environmental investigations, ecological and human health risk assessments, and the promise for more integrated and widespread use of GIS in the future.