ESRI/SAP News Around the Globe, First Quarter 2008

In This Issue

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

ESRI/SAP News

ESRI at 2008 SAP Conferences
ESRI will be exhibiting at the following SAP conferences in 2008:

SAPPHIRE and ASUG
May 4-7, 2008
Orlando, Florida, USA

SAPPHIRE 2008 Berlin
May 19-21, 2008
Berlin, Germany

For information or to schedule an appointment to meet with ESRI staff at any SAP conference, e-mail Diana Dittemore.

SAP ERP Upgrade Symposium/Enterprise SOA Symposium
March 5-6, 2008
San Diego, CA, USA
Steve Benner, ESRI's Director of Strategic Accounts, will present a one hour session, "Extending SAP with Enterprise SOA: A View from the Tower and the Trenches" at the Enterprise SOA Symposium on March 6, 2008 at 1:15 p.m. He will discuss and demonstrate how SAP functionality has been extended into the location intelligence arena using a SOA-ready GIS. Examples from Imperial Irrigation District, NNWW, AES Sul, and ESRI will be used to illustrate the business pain points resolved, alternatives considered, solution implemented, and benefits delivered. For more information on this session please contact Diana Dittemore.

AMERICAS' SAP USER GROUP (ASUG) Community Call - Extending SAP with GIS: What, Who, Why and How?
April 10, 2008
8:00 a.m. (PDT)
ASUG will be hosting a call to discuss the business value of linking geospatial information to an SAP system. ESRI's Steve Benner will demonstrate the major uses and benefits of an integrated GIS/SAP system by highlighting several customer examples. This is an opportunity for participants to learn more about the value "Location Intelligence" can add to their businesses. For more information please contact Diana Dittemore.

ESRI/SAP Webinar-WaterOne Achieves Integrated Asset Management
On February 20, 2008, ESRI business partner Impress Software hosted this 60-minute webinar that featured a presentation by ESRI/SAP user WaterOne, a quasi-municipal water utility that provides water for approximately 140,000 customers in Johnson County, Kansas. View the archived presentation to learn how WaterOne integrated its ESRI GIS and SAP asset and client information using Impress for GIS for improved asset reliability and operations.

An Integrated ESRI/SAP Approach to Enterprise Asset Management for Utilities Webinar
On December 6, 2007, ESRI, Impress Software, and Accenture hosted this live panel discussion on the trends causing utilities to rethink operations and how leading companies are taking a new approach to asset management-an integrated SAP-ESRI approach-to achieve operational excellence while improving the experience of their customers. This discussion examined the business benefits of enterprise asset management and provided insight for utilities (water, gas, and electric); publicly held, privately owned, and government-owned businesses; and utility executives and decision makers from finance, operations, customer service, and IT. View the archived presentation online.

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 of 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 SOA-based GIS integration capabilities for the geospatial enablement of a common platform and applications from SAP.

Auckland Regional Council and Auckland Regional Transport Authority Select Impress for GIS to Integrate SAP and ESRI Impress Software, a leading provider of packaged integration applications, has announced that it has been selected by the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) in New Zealand to integrate their SAP and ESRI systems. ARC and ARTA will implement Impress for GIS, a solution that ensures consistency of asset information between SAP and ESRI and streamlines asset management processes that span both systems.

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ESRI Corporate Alliance News

ESRI and Citrix Webinar-How to Accelerate, Extend, and Secure Your ESRI GIS
On March 12, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. (EDT), ESRI and Citrix will host this 60-minute live webinar featuring the chief information officer (CIO) of the National Association of Counties (NACo), IT professionals from the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), and ESRI senior enterprise architect Ty Fabling discussing how adding Citrix solutions to your existing GIS implementations will give more users faster access. SWFWMD will explain how it leverages Citrix to provide fast, secure, and streamlined access to its GIS and 84 other business-critical applications. Register today!

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 consultant SpotOn Systems to provide Cognos customers throughout North America 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.

Geospatially Enabling Enterprise Asset Management Webcast with ESRI and IBM Maximo
On December 18, 2007, ESRI and IBM Maximo hosted a live webcast sponsored by Federal Computer Week and Government Computer News. The webcast featured presentations by Julio Olimpio, ESRI's IBM Strategic Alliance manager, and Ron Wallace, IBM Maximo, on how Maximo Spatial with ArcGIS allows you to reduce costs, improve service, optimize executive dashboards, and manage assets more effectively. View the presentation.

GIS Day Open House at Safe Software Is Full of Surprises
Imagine you are listening to a guest speaker when the speaker is interrupted by a call notifying the audience that a 40-meter wave is heading for the nearest coastline. Attendees at Safe Software's fifth GIS Day open house were exposed to three simulated emergencies designed to both entertain and inform. Each emergency took a humorous approach and required Safe Software's extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tools platform, Feature Manipulation Engine (FME), to be used on the spot to help plan an appropriate response by integrating data from a number of different sources. Read more [PDF] about this creative event.

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. With 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.

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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

G-I-Yes on YouTube!
The Environmental Resource Management Division of the Watershed Protection and Development Review Department for the City of Austin, Texas, developed a song with lyrics adapted from a popular children's film. The song was presented at the beginning of Austin's GIS Day on November 14. See the video.

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 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 and 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.

Putting Canada on the Map
Globeandmail.com, December 2007-The father of digitized mapping recounts how a stroke of luck led him to develop the world's first geographic information system.

Bridging the Economic Divide in Africa [PDF]
GEOConnexion, November 2007-GIS and remote sensing help manage agricultural and health challenges in Cameroon and Ethiopia.

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Marketing Opportunities

Save the Dates for 2008 ESRI Conferences!
For sponsorship/exhibitor information for any of the following conferences, visit the conference sites or e-mail Diana Dittemore.

	ESRI Worldwide Business Partner Conference March 15-18, 2008 Palm Springs, California Exhibitor Opportunities
	ESRI Developer Summit March 17-20, 2008 Palm Springs, California
	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

Summer Advertising Deadlines for ArcNews and ArcUser
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