2008 Business Partner Awards Winners

Congratulations to All Award Winners

Brazil

New Partner of the Year: K2 Sistemas
—Developer
K2 Sistemas had been an ESRI developer for many years before it decided to join the ESRI Business Partner Program. It has done work in the government sector for Rio de Janeiro. An example of a current ESRI-based project is the CET-Rio–Caviar Project.

Foundation Partner of the Year: Gisplan Tecnologia da Geoinformação
—Developer
Gisplan Tecnologia da Geoinformação is the definition of a foundation partner. It has been an ESRI partner for more than a decade, and it exclusively uses ESRI products. The company consistently invests in ESRI training for its staff, management, and technicians. Gisplan participates in the annual ESRI User Conference every year as well as the business partner developer summit in Palm Springs, California. The company also participates at the Brazilian User Conference to promote the utilization of ESRI technology.

Gisplan's current ESRI-based development projects include Transport of Gas Brazil-Bolivia (TBG), Petrobras Gas and Energia/Planejamento, and Fugro/OceansatPEG.

Canada

Partner of the Year: Earth-to-Map GIS Inc.
—Developer
Earth-to-Map GIS Inc. (E2MGIS) has had principals committed to ESRI technologies since 1989. The principal partners for E2MGIS are former employees of ESRI Canada Limited: Marc Beaudoin, ESRI regional director, Montreal, 1989–1992, and Pierre Lermusieaux, ESRI consultant, Vancouver and Montreal, 1991–1993.

E2MGIS has developed a strong relationship with ESRI Canada. As a provider of consulting, data, and software development services, E2MGIS has consistently demonstrated its strong commitment to its clients’ success while leveraging ESRI desktop and server technologies. The company's knowledge and expertise in large-enterprise database solutions and, more specifically, Canadian base data, address management, and geocoding enhances ESRI Canada offerings as well as eases the implementation of an ESRI GIS solution for new clients.

E2MGIS was instrumental in the implementation of ESRI GIS technology for the National Geographic Database at Elections Canada as well as the development of the partnership between Elections Canada and Statistics Canada for the ongoing maintenance of the shared GIS database. This involvement with Elections Canada was critical with the migration of the Bentley MicroStation platform to ESRI software.

EM2GIS database architect consulting resources were used for the address management system (AMS) project of Canada Post Corporation. This implementation is one of the largest ESRI geodatabases in North America.

The company's newest released product, the StreetPerfect for ArcGIS extension, greatly simplifies the Canadian address georeferencing challenges by encapsulating state-of-the-art address accuracy software with the powerful geocoding capabilities of ArcGIS 9.2. An accurate location for addresses is the key to successful location-driven analysis like geodemographic planning and targeting or emergency management.

ESRI Canada Limited will be the exclusive reseller of this value-added ArcGIS product beginning in January 2008.

In summary, historically, ESRI Canada’s clients have been in the natural resources and environment sector. With assistance from business partner Earth-to-Map GIS, ESRI Canada has been able to extend ESRI software into the demographic and health verticals traditionally dominated by competitors.

Partner of the Year: R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited —Developer
R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited is an engineering consulting firm, employing a multidisciplinary group of professional engineers, hydrogeologists, and environmental consultants. It has been providing top-level GIS products, solutions, and services to local, national, and international clients. R.J. Burnside provides clients with a variety of surveying, mapping, evaluation, and operating services, applying its expertise in GIS and satellite and airborne remote sensing.

R.J. Burnside has been developing solutions for municipalities using ESRI technology since 1996, and it has developed ESRI-centric software solutions such as Burnside GIS Tools, Land Use Module, Notification Module, Roads Asset Management System, and Enquiries and Complaints Management System. These modules help small- to medium-sized municipalities manage legislation, transportation, and other important aspects of their day-to-day operations. These modules were developed to assist municipal staff to become more effective and efficient without specialized GIS training.

R.J. Burnside became an official business partner with ESRI Canada Limited in 2002. In 2004, R.J. Burnside received the ESRI New Business Partner of the Year, Canada, Award for its work in the municipal sector. This award is given to partners that have developed innovative GIS solutions that make a significant impact in the marketplace.

Since 1996, R.J. Burnside has grown in size and demonstrated its commitment to ESRI technology by increasing its ESRI development license holdings, taking ESRI-certified training courses, and actively participating in many of ESRI Canada’s regional user and sales conferences.

“We are pleased and honored that R.J. Burnside has chosen the ESRI technology platform to implement and meet the needs of its customers,” said John Houweling, regional manager, ESRI Canada in Ontario. “Its commitment to listening to the customer and delivering productive solutions makes it an asset to our organization as our business partner.”

Foundation Partner of the Year: Ventyx Inc.
—Developer and OEM
Ventyx Inc. is the leading provider of software solutions that enable energy, utilities, telecommunications, broadband, and other commercial field service organizations to optimize the management of their customers, workforce, spare parts inventory, equipment, tools, and documentation. With offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Ventyx has more than 300,000 users and 700 clients in 40 countries as well as more than 55 strategic international partnerships servicing asset-intensive, service-based industries. Ventyx currently has more than 20 platform partners and has chosen ESRI as its single GIS platform.

Ventyx was formed in 2007 through the merging of Indus and MDSI—both former ESRI business partners, with MDSI honored as the ESRI Canada Partner of the Year in 2006 for the international success of its mobile workforce management solution, Advantex. With the formation of Ventyx, MDSI's long-established solution became Service Suite, one of the three solution suites that comprise the Ventyx Service Delivery Management (SDM) strategy.

Service Suite is a comprehensive mobile workforce management solution, automating service workflow from scheduling to performance measurement. Service Suite makes strong use of several embedded ESRI developer components—both server and desktop based—to form a true enterprise class solution. Through the continued integration of Service Suite with the other two pillars of the Ventyx SDM solution, Asset Suite and Customer Suite, Ventyx is well positioned to continue to bring the geographic advantage of location-aware solutions to its users and clients.

China

Partner of the Year: Shanghai City GIS Developing Co., Ltd
—Developer
ESRI China (Beijing) Limited nominates Shanghai City GIS Developing Co., Ltd., for Partner of the Year. It is ESRI China's important business partner (BP) in the government industry in east China. The company plays a vital role in various government fields, especially in Shanghai City information construction.

In 2007, the company made several successful sales achievements. Its main development projects include GIS grid management systems in Shanghai Qingpu District, Songjiang District, Yangpu District, and Zhabei District. Other projects are the Shanghai Intelligent Transportation System (Phase II for Shanghai key projects), civil defense information platform of the Shanghai Civil Defense Information Center, Shanghai "Digital Underground" Sharing Center GIS systems, Shanghai transport integrated information platform project, and many other government information systems. The company has developed many good applications and promoted ArcGIS to expand it into the broad market in the government information technology industry.

New Partner of the Year: e-Gova Corp.
—Developer
ESRI China (Beijing) Limited nominates e-Gova Corp. for New Partner of the Year. E-Gova Corp is a famous digital urban management solutions provider in China, and it is the first company to engage in digital city management research and promotion. This company has successfully applied ArcGIS to comprehensive city management. It has constructed nearly 30 cities' grid GIS systems and become the main editing company in the grid GIS standards field books such as Urban Municipal Integrated Supervision Information System Technical Specifications, Urban Municipal Integrated Supervision Information System Unit Mesh Partition and the Coding Rules, Urban Municipal Integrated Supervision Information System Management Components and Incident Classification and Coding, and Urban Municipal Integrated Supervision Information System Geography Coding. Currently, these books' standards have been successfully applied in the digital city management field.

In 2007, e-Gova Corp. continued to develop several digital city management information systems in regions such as Langfang, Baoji, Lanzhou Chengguan District, Karamayi, and Zhengzhou.

Finland

New Partner of the Year: AffectoGenimap Oyj
—Developer
AffectoGenimap Oyj has been ESRI Finland Oy’s business partner for less than a year, but it has brought significant new customers to ESRI technology. AffectoGenimap has also invested significantly to learn more about ESRI technology.

Foundation Partner of the Year: WM Data Novo OYJ
—Developer and OEM
WM Data Novo OYJ (formerly Novo Group; changing to Logica in February 2008) is ESRI Finland Oy's biggest and closest business partner. WM Data has been using ESRI technology in its own software products (local government and public safety) as well as in several customer projects.

The company's product portfolio and service offerings are some of the key strengths in local government and in the public sector in Finland.

Germany

Partner of the Year: alta4 Geoinformatik AG
—Developer
Since its inception in 2000, alta4 Geoinformatik AG has been focused on growing by developing innovative solutions and new markets for ESRI technology. In 2007, alta4 continued to significantly grow its sales and also won new clients in the areas of tourism, media planning, and health care.

The company provides smart Web applications, innovative ArcGIS extensions, and integrated Web services in order to assist its clients in achieving their objectives. Its ArcGIS extensions, such as GPS PhotoMapper for GPS-enabled cameras and bar code readers as well as HTML ImageMapper as a cost-effective solution for publishing AJAX maps in the Web, are also well known to a large international ESRI community.

With this award, alta4 is honored for its continuing loyalty to ESRI, its outstanding performance in its market area, and its entrepreneurial spirit for setting up a complete ArcGIS Application Service Providing (ASP) infrastructure.

New Partner of the Year: viasecure Deutschland GmbH
—Developer and Consultant
Viasecure Deutschland GmbH is a rapidly growing company dealing with different aspects of security. In addition to traditional verticals such as safety and health care, viasecure focuses on GIS solutions for explosive ordnance disposal and enterprise solutions for international heavy and petrochemical industries.

Early on, viasecure started investing in service-oriented architectures to interoperate with ArcGIS Server advanced technology. The company’s technical competency and ArcGIS solution-hosting business model positions it as a particularly valuable business partner for ESRI.

ESRI is looking forward to working with viasecure, exploring new verticals and winning new business.

Foundation Partner of the Year: ARC-GREENLAB GmbH
—Developer
In 2007, ARC-GREENLAB GmbH was formed by merging ARC-BERLIN and GREENLAB, two of ESRI Geoinformatik GmbH's best business partners.

GREENLAB has been a successful and loyal business partner since 1992, and it has gained extensive experience in ArcGIS and broad knowledge in ESRI technology. Over many years, GREENLAB has seen great sales results when it developed relationships with important customers in government, forestry, and commercial markets.

ARC-BERLIN joined ESRI in 2001 as a business partner. The company was a leading specialist for surveying, civil engineering, and local government cadastral markets where users are typically focused on CAD rather than GIS. The company's understanding of ESRI technology, combined with well engineered ArcGIS software-based solutions, enabled it to quickly succeed and grow in new markets.

With joined technology skills and sales forces, ARC-GREENLAB is positioned to grow and explore opportunities throughout Europe. By its strong commitment to ESRI technology and its close collaboration with ESRI Geoinformatik and AED-SICAD, ARC-GREENLAB is recognized as a foundation within ESRI's partner community.

South Africa

Partner of the Year: Kelly & Kelly
—Consultant and VAR
Sales for the Zambian region in Africa have increased significantly due to Kelly & Kelly's dedicated work and successful informative relations established over the years. The biggest technical breakthrough was the company's selling its first Image Server to the Geological Survey Department of Zambia this year along with many other sales into all regions of the country.

Kelly & Kelly's expertise and knowledge of ESRI's products have made significant inroads in conservation and urban planning as well as in government departments and mining sectors.

Sweden

Partner of the Year Award: WM-data Consulting
—Consultant, Developer, and OEM
WM-data Consulting has longtime experience within the forest industry and has put a significant amount of effort and creativity into its OEM product, Fagus Forrest. With this application, WM-data shows a positive spirit and strong eagerness to adapt Fagus Forrest to the latest technologies.

WM-data has always been looking toward taking new steps to move its work forward. ESRI S-GROUP Sverige AB believes that Fagus Forrest will reach a wide market and that there are more opportunities to expand further with WM-data into new sectors.

New Partner of the Year Award: Sogeti Sverige AB
—Consultant
Sogeti Sverige AB has shown a strong motivation to collaborate with ESRI S-GROUP Sverige AB and take its ESRI knowledge further. Sogeti Sverige AB has a GIS organization that is constantly growing as well as leadership that shows commitment and motivation to reach new markets. ESRI believes that Sogeti Sverige AB has what is needed to reach out to existing as well as new markets with innovative ESRI solutions.

Foundation Partner Award: Metria Nord
—Consultant and Developer
Metria Nord has shown dedication and motivation when working with ESRI S-GROUP Sverige AB and ESRI software. Over many years, the relationship has grown to be strong and dependable with many good examples of commitment and collaboration.

United Kingdom

Partner of the Year: Experian
—Developer, OEM and VAR
Experian has now developed and successfully released the third generation of Micromarketer—MicromarketerG3; this release is now based on ArcGIS technology. MicromarketerG3 was released in 2006 (on time) and to great acclaim from its customers.

Micromarketer was first launched in 1995. Developed in-house by Experian, the application is targeted at commercial business users and GIS analysts. The current user base is drawn from general retailers, financial service providers, supermarkets, utilities, pub operators, motor manufacturers, media owners, and leisure companies. The application provides a broad range of functionality and has ubiquitous appeal to the wide variety of organizations it supports. This includes importing and geocoding of customers, location or sales data, geodemographic profiling, catchment definition, sales territory analysis, data modeling, mapping, and visualization.

MicromarketerG3 has enabled Experian to retain its global customer base and associated annual income. Since its launch in 2006, it has secured the organization a further 24 percent of new contract revenue, proving that it has been a commercially successful product.

On December 4, 2007, Experian won the Association for Geographic Information’s (AGI) annual award for innovation and best practice in the private sector for its new MicromarketerG3 geographic mapping tool.

New Partner of the Year: Symology
—Developer
Symology is the United Kingdom's leading supplier of street works register systems, and it is also a leading supplier of integrated infrastructure asset management systems, specifically in the area of highway-related assets.

In England and Wales, Symology's Insight software is utilized by more than one-third of highway authorities. In Scotland, the system is deployed on a central server and used by all Scottish road authorities, all utilities, and a number of agencies such as the Scottish Executive. Insight is also widely used in the UK's gas, electricity, and water utility companies.

In August 2007, Symology launched Insight version 2.4, which comprises a complete redevelopment of the existing mapping functions. The new, substantially enhanced facilities, based on ArcGIS Engine, provide synchronized bidirectional connectivity with full inquiry and updating capabilities; it also provides users with the ability to "drive" the system from the map.

The embedded functions exploit the capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop mapping products, including sophisticated symbology definition and layer control, and have the ability to read and display all supported GIS, CAD, and graphic formats as well as being able to utilize Web mapping and Web feature services.

The Insight system allows multiple map definitions to be defined and allocated to users, allowing different users to access the embedded mapping with personally tailored views.

Foundation Partner of the Year: MVA Consultancy (MVA Ltd.)
—Developer
MVA Consultancy (MVA Ltd.) has been a business partner of ESRI (UK) Ltd. for many years and has a strong track record of using ESRI products as a core part of its transport consultancy business. As one of the leading transport consultancies in the United Kingdom (UK) with more than 250 staff, the company recognizes the benefits of GIS to its business and customers.

MVA Consultancy has recently transformed its existing PT Insight software for public transport information management from MapObjects to ArcGIS Engine, and this year the company has supplied more than 100 seats to a number of major UK transport authorities. These are important reference sites for MVA and ESRI and demonstrate the robustness of ArcGIS in public transport management and operations.