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In This Issue

• ESRI/SAP News
• First ESRI Developer Summit Huge Success
• ESRI in the News
• New ESRI Industry Solutions Managers
• GIS in Action
• Marketing Opportunities

ESRI/SAP News

ESRI at ASUG and SAPPHIRE '06 Orlando

ESRI will exhibit at this year's combined ASUG and SAPPHIRE conference, which is being held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. ASUG, May 15–17, will be followed by SAPPHIRE, May 16–18. This combined event will provide a unique experience for SAP customers from both the business and technical worlds. ESRI staff will be demonstrating how geographic information system (GIS) technology can be used to leverage an organization's SAP implementation. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please contact Shelli Stockton.

SAP-UK and ESRI-UK Seminar—The Benefits of Integration

Join SAP and ESRI on May 18 at the SAP-UK headquarters [PDF-102 KB] in Feltham, Middlesex, for a seminar presenting the benefits of ESRI/SAP integration. This seminar is designed for asset managers, business analysts, and infrastructure engineers from industries where world-class asset management and customer services are key to organizational success. The event will explore new trends in asset management techniques, combining GIS technology with operational asset, work, and supply chain management. These techniques enable better investment decisions, deliver faster return on investment, reduce operational costs, and increase collaboration. The seminar will use proven experience of the close integration of ESRI GIS with SAP Asset and Work Management, drawing on firsthand customer experiences. Register online for this no cost morning seminar.

ESRI at SAPPHIRE '06 Paris

ESRI will exhibit at SAPPHIRE '06 Paris, which is being held May 30–June 1, at the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles. ESRI will be demonstrating our strategy for spatial analysis of data in SAP to provide you with solutions for your organization's needs. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please contact Frank Holsmuller.

ESUG at ESRI International User Conference

The ESRI/SAP User Group (ESUG) will hold a meeting at the 26th Annual ESRI International User Conference (UC). The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 9, from 12:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. You do not have to be an ESUG member to attend. Anyone who is interested in learning more about SAP/ESRI integration, discussing the latest developments, or networking within the GIS and SAP communities is encouraged to attend.

Marin Municipal Water District Featured in Directions Magazine
Integrating GIS with SAP Brings Improved Processes

Directions, March 30, 2006—Gavin McGhie, GIS coordinator at Marin Municipal Water District and ESUG cofounder and cochair, discusses the benefits of integrating the district's SAP and ESRI systems, which extend throughout the district and to its customers. The integration has led to decreased service times, reduced error frequency, lower operation costs, and increased overall efficiency.

Join ESUG

Join the ESRI/SAP User Group to increase your technical expertise, build contacts within the geographic information system and SAP communities, stay up to date with the latest developments in SAP/GIS integration, and receive technical support from your peers.

First ESRI Developer Summit Huge Success

The final counts are in, and ESRI is pleased to announce that more than 750 people attended the first ESRI Developer Summit March 17–18 in Palm Springs, California. We would like to thank our sponsors—IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, and Safe Software—for helping to make this event such a success. If you were unable to attend or would like to hear more from ESRI software and product directors, you can now listen to or download a series of interviews from the summit.

ESRI in the News

ESRI's Newest Distributor Helps in the Rebuilding and Rehabilitation of Afghanistan

GeoVision, the new GIS division of Afghan IT company Liwal Limited, recently joined ESRI's International Distributor Program and has now committed itself to active participation in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Afghanistan. It has forged a strong relationship with the Afghanistan Information Management Service (AIMS) and is now exploring the possibility of working with AIMS to implement GIS throughout the country's public and private sectors.

Atlas for GIS and Surveying Systems Co. Ltd. New ESRI Software Distributor in Iraq

Atlas for GIS and Surveying Systems Co. Ltd., a former ESRI software user, is now a distributor for ESRI's GIS software in Iraq. Atlas' extensive efforts to implement the technology throughout the Republic of Iraq have led to the recent creation of a national GIS center, and they now name more than 30 public- and private-sector clients as users.

New ESRI Industry Solutions Managers

We are excited to announce two new members of the Industry Solutions marketing team.

John Bernie is our new geospatial intelligence specialist on the defense team. He comes to ESRI from Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, where he worked as a management consultant in marketing operations. Before earning an M.B.A., he gained a strong background in defense and intelligence, serving eight years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. While in the Navy, John's targeting specialization introduced him to GIS technology.

GIS in Action

ESRI and STC Collaborate to Address Pandemic Influenza
Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC), an international public health information systems firm, in conjunction with ESRI, has developed a GIS-based exercise program to assess readiness and help prepare and develop an action plan in the event of an influenza pandemic in the United States. The program is designed to evaluate the operational readiness of public health agencies, schools, jails, transportation services, and other private and public organizations whose work during a pandemic will be severely disrupted.

Cobb County, Georgia, Creates a Geodatabase for Routing and Other Transportation Services Using GIS
The projected growth of Cobb County prompted the creation of a transportation geodatabase as part of a five-year, $5.2 million project to develop an enterprise GIS using ArcGIS, ArcIMS, and ArcSDE. The geodatabase will enable personnel to more efficiently dispatch emergency responders, track roads in need of repair, and plan trips for public transportation and senior services.

Zippy Names Permit Peek at Place Personalities
Puget Sound Business Journal, February 2, 2006—ESRI prepared a set of national psychodemographic neighborhood profiles of the greater Puget Sound area. The colorful assortment of monikers used, including Laptops and Lattes and Wealthy Seaboard Suburbs, create a better understanding of the residents' lifestyles and retail preferences.

Read other examples of GIS in Action.

Marketing Opportunities

ESRI International User Conference
August 7–11, 2006
San Diego, California

The May 26 deadline is approaching quickly to sponsor or exhibit at the 26th Annual ESRI International User Conference. The Exhibitor Prospectus, providing everything you need to know about exhibiting at the largest GIS conference in the world, including information on the concurrent Education User Conference and Survey and GIS Summit, is now available to view online [PDF-1.14 MB]. The conference is again expected to attract more than 13,000 attendees, and one of the best ways to reach these individuals is by advertising in one or both of the agendas provided for each attendee. Reserve your space now to be included in the Conference Agenda, a complete guide to the UC, and/or the Pocket Agenda, a handy quick-reference tool.