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ESRI/SAP News
ESRI/SAP Tip from the Experts
Need to access data stored in SAP's Business Information Warehouse (BW) from ArcGIS? The online analytical processing (OLAP) for ArcGIS
add-on allows users of OLAP server technology, such as SAP BW, to view their business data in the ArcGIS environment via read-only tables.
Download the
OLAP for ArcGIS add-on.
Visit ESRI at Upcoming SAP Conferences
ESRI will be exhibiting at the following SAP conferences:
SAP-Centric EAM Conference
April 1-4, 2007
Huntington Beach, CA, USA
*ESRI will be located in booth #9.
ASUG/SAPPHIRE
April 22-25, 2007
Atlanta, GA, USA
*ESRI will be located in the SAP NetWeaver Partner Pavilion.
SAPPHIRE '07 Vienna
May 14-16, 2007
Vienna, Austria
*ESRI will be located in the SAP NetWeaver Partner Pavilion.
For more information regarding ESRI's presence at any of the above conferences, contact Shelli Stockton.
ESRI/SAP User Group at the ESRI UC
Wednesday, June 20
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
San Diego Convention Center
The ESRI/SAP User Group (ESUG) annual meeting will
take place during the 2007 ESRI International User Conference (UC)
in San Diego, California. The meeting will feature ESRI/SAP joint solution updates, user presentations, and a panel discussion. More information
will be available in the next issue of ESRI/SAP News Around the Globe.
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, SAP customer relationship management (CRM), and NetWeaver Business Intelligence allow companies to
capture a wide variety of data, including demographic or statistical population data, typical consumer behavior by region, and consumer
traffic data, 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.
ESRI GIS/SAP Integration Helps Utilities Execute Business Processes and Optimize Resource Utilization
ESRI demonstrated GIS and SAP integration at the 2007 Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) Conference, March 4-7, 2007,
in San Antonio, Texas. The integration of GIS with SAP is critical for
utilities because they typically have unique tasks:
managing assets and infrastructure distributed over a wide area, supplying mobile field forces with access to corporate data, and ensuring
optimal utilization of assets, infrastructure, and people in the field through fast, accurate, and easy access to data and tools.
Metropolitan Utilities District of Omaha, Nebraska, Integrates ESRI Enterprise GIS with SAP Software
ESRI has been selected by Metropolitan Utilities District (MUD) of Omaha, Nebraska, for an enterprise GIS site license that will enable
MUD to deploy the full suite of ESRI's ArcGIS software in an open, scalable, and standards-based GIS architecture throughout the operation.
The GIS will integrate with and leverage existing information technology (IT) resources, including the utility's SAP enterprise resource
planning (ERP) software, to meet a broad range of business and engineering needs. Integrating its ERP system with GIS will allow it to manage
facility data, determine gas and water system demand, model existing and proposed systems, and more.
Impress Software Announces Impress for GIS 2.1 to Enhance SAP
and GIS Integration
Impress Software, a leading provider of packaged integration applications, announced the availability of Impress for GIS 2.1, an updated
version of the packaged integration application optimized for bridging SAP with ESRI's ArcGIS and Miner & Miner's ArcFM. Impress for GIS 2.1
includes new features to further streamline and enhance spatial asset management in an SAP environment. Highlighting this release is the
support for the Customer Care and Service module of SAP's industry business solution for utilities (IS-U/CCS).
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ESRI Corporate Alliance News
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
hit hard by disasters. The Digital Mapping Solutions pilot project in El Salvador, led by WorldVision, 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 and prepare for, 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.
Tele Atlas and ESRI Support GIS Education with Conference Grants
Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital map data and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, and ESRI 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, 2007. The EdUC provides a forum for members of the education community to come together and share their knowledge
through user-led presentations, interest group meetings, hands-on computer labs, and the
EdUC EXPO.
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ESRI News
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 offered targeted sessions for sales, marketing,
business development, and product positioning to help partners align more closely with ESRI and drive more business to their companies.
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 he 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.
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GIS in Action
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 the 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 using GIS for event coordination and modeling and tactical and strategic planning.
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Marketing Opportunities
ESRI International User Conference
June 18-22, 2007
San Diego, CA, USA
Maximize your market presence and customer relationship efforts at the 27th Annual ESRI International User Conference (UC) as a
sponsor or exhibitor. 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 two 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 2007
ESRI UC
this June by placing an ad in the summer issues of
ArcNews and ArcUser. Scheduled to be delivered in the weeks following the 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 contacting
ads@esri.com.
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