ESRI/SAP News Around the Globe, November 2007

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 next year:

International SAP EAM in Utilities Conference
February 11-13, 2008
Amsterdam, Netherlands

SAP Public Services Ecosystem Summit
February 12-14, 2008
Mannheim, Germany

SAP Logistics and Supply Chain Management Conference
February 13-15, 2008
Nice, France

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

SAPPHIRE Europe
May 19-21, 2008
Berlin, Germany

For more information on our presence or to schedule an appointment to meet with ESRI staff at any SAP Conference, e-mail Megan Williams.

Check Out ESRI in the SAP Software Solution Partner Catalog
You can now view ESRI's ArcGIS solution in the SAP Software Solution Partner Catalog online. The catalog is designed for all SAP partners with solutions that have earned SAP xApps™ Certified, Powered by SAP NetWeaver®, or Certified for SAP NetWeaver status. With Powered by SAP NetWeaver status, the ArcGIS platform provides a full range of GIS capabilities to SAP solution environments.

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ESRI Corporate Alliance News

ESRI and Citrix Business Continuity Planning Seminar
On November 7 in New York City, ESRI and Citrix hosted a seminar to discuss the business drivers and benefits of geographically enhanced business continuity plans. ESRI's GIS solutions take your risk management strategies to the next level of preparedness, expanding your world view. With ESRI and Citrix technology, you can integrate real-time data with decision making, support facility management and alerts organized by region, and publish expert scenarios and holistic response plans. View presentations from the seminar online.

IBM Maximo Spatial Delivers Unified View of Corporate Assets
IBM recently released IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management, an application built using ArcGIS Server 9.2 technology to extend and enhance users' ability to capture, analyze, and display assets, locations, and work orders in a geospatial perspective. Viewing the components of business in a geospatial context can aid in the dispatch of appropriate resources for service appointments and corrective/emergency maintenance work.

Enterprise Spatial Data Management: The Value of Geographic Data for Business Applications
On November 6, IBM hosted this teleconference, which featured speakers from IBM and ESRI discussing how the IBM DB2 database, with newly announced spatial support in DB2 9 for z/OS, provides a foundation to manage location data that is designed to work with geospatial applications from ESRI. View the presentation to find out exactly how visualization of geographic information enables businesses to extend intelligence.

To learn more about the ESRI/IBM relationship, check out ESRI's booth at the IBM Virtual Conference on demand until December 18, 2007.

Minority Report for the Majority
Cadalyst, October 16, 2007 - Information Builders and ESRI advance the integration of enterprise data to geospatial data for predicting criminal activity. Using Information Builder's Web FOCUS business intelligence software platform and ESRI's ArcGIS software, the Richmond Police Department created a Law Enforcement Analytics dashboard to display timely, aggregated crime data mapped by location and sector. This application earned the Richmond PD the 2007 Gartner Business Intelligence (BI) Excellence Award.

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Product News

Segmentation Tool Accurately Identifies Customer and Prospect Types
Organizations can now more accurately identify their most profitable customer and prospect types, including where they live, what products and services they buy, and which marketing methods they respond to, by using ESRI's ArcGIS Business Analyst Segmentation Module. The Segmentation Module integrates with well-proven ArcGIS Business Analyst desktop software, enabling organizations to generate specialized market segmentation reports by geographic area, such as ZIP Codes and block groups. With the Segmentation Module, organizations can identify the customer segments that promise the highest return on investment (ROI) from marketing campaigns, allowing them to fine-tune and focus their marketing and merchandising strategies on these profitable segments.

ESRI's ArcPad Software Gets Top Marks in Census Dress Rehearsals
Initial reports indicate that the dress rehearsals currently being conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for its new field data collection automation (FDCA) program are going well. ESRI's ArcPad technology is being deployed as part of the FDCA program for the 2010 Census by Harris Corporation (HRS), the systems integrator and prime contractor for the project. ArcPad will serve as the GIS used to support the field personnel (enumerators) in their collection of data with handheld devices.

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GIS in Action

GIS Helps Multiple Agencies Respond to Southern California Fires
GIS software and services from ESRI are helping local, state, and federal agencies with multiple tasks surrounding the recent firestorms in Southern California. Similar to previous efforts for the Zaca fire as well as the large-scale California fires of 2003, ESRI provided staffing, ArcGIS software, and other resources during the fires and continues to provide support as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other agencies assess the damage and impact of the firestorm. More than a dozen wildfires in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties resulted in half a million evacuees, hundreds of thousands of acres burned, and thousands of properties destroyed.

Siemens-ESRI Team Wins Contract for NATO's Core Geographic Services
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has awarded its Core Geographic Services contract to the Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN)-ESRI team, which will spearhead a project that will shape the application of geospatial technology in defense for years to come. The services, technology, and software the contract provides will ensure that all NATO staff, from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) to NATO's deployable headquarters (HQ), will have the best available geospatial information at all times.

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ESRI in the News

ArcGIS Business Analyst Helps Norwegian Group
Geo: International, October 29, 2007 - ESRI's ArcGIS Business Analyst helps the dominant Norwegian retail group Coop Norge AS, which includes 165 individual cooperative societies and more than 1,000 main street shops, to refine their marketing strategies. "Business Analyst makes it possible for us to analyze data from our own client database along with external public data in a whole new way," says Jon Arne Falk, head of analysis at Coop Norge. "The unique mix of data displayed in the map presentations gives us very valuable and intuitive insights into our customers and their buying habits."

Software to Help State Find Abducted Children
Daily Herald, October 8, 2007 - The statewide Child Abduction Response Team (CART) in Utah recently started using ESRI's ArcGIS software. The GIS software will allow the team to use more detailed strategies and better organization during searches for abducted children or other missing people. "It's like Google Earth, only better," said Bill Fossmo, a CART analyst. "It gives you the same aerial perspective, but allows you to put layers of information on top of those aerial photographs so you can learn more about your crime scene."

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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.

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