2009 Business Partner Award Winners
Congratulations to All Award Winners
Boston
Partner of the Year: Bergmann Associates
—Corporate Consultant, Developer, and Value-Added Reseller (VAR)
Bergmann Associates is an architectural and engineering firm established in 1980 that has grown to employ more than 280 professionals in 10 office locations throughout the eastern and midwestern regions of the United States. A partner since January 2000, Bergmann has truly distinguished itself as a trusted and dedicated ESRI partner and, over the years, has provided high-quality and consistent service, consulting, and training. The company's success hinges on not only the high caliber and dedication of its employees but also its well-coordinated, efficient, and cost-effective GIS design approach. Bergmann has rapidly achieved a reputation for being expert in the design and implementation of enterprise solutions with ESRI products, particularly in the areas of ArcGIS Server application development and ArcGIS consulting. Its hard work, dedication, and talent make Bergmann Associates a perfect candidate for this award.
California
Partner of the Year: NorthSouth GIS LLC
—Consultant and Value-Added Reseller (VAR)
NorthSouth GIS LLC (NSG) is an information technology company focusing on the implementation and development of GIS. NSG's superior application development skills are complemented by a solid understanding of GIS sciences and the realities of implementing GIS systems. NSG has worked successfully in several industries including mining, local government, and a few commercial sectors. It has created successful applications at all levels, including user-friendly mobile mapping with ArcPad and webcentric applications with ArcGIS Server, as well as implemented ESRI's Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) in a very large municipality. The company uses complex analytic tools grounded in ESRI's geoprocessing toolkit. More than a developer, NSG works to understand each client's unique situation, providing education and support to ensure success. NSG also works to place every application on a solid foundation by providing excellent geodatabase design and system recommendations. Its commitment to covering all the bases is a model for GIS professionals and an asset for the GIS community.
Charlotte
Partner of the Year: EnerGov Solutions LLC
—Developer
As a new partner in 2008, EnerGov Solutions LLC was quick to embrace both the ESRI service philosophy and a business strategy promoting the enterprise-wide development of GIS within the governments it serves. EnerGov automates the often complex tasks of geographic data management, interactive map displays, and geographic report generation to create a solution series that leverages the enterprise GIS investment. Most importantly, EnerGov is quickly gaining recognition throughout the region and beyond as a leading provider of a suite of local government applications connecting the complicated workflows of permitting, zoning, licensing, and code enforcement to an integrated parcel-level GIS.
Denver
Partner of the Year: ITT Visual Information Solutions
—Value-Added Reseller (VAR)
ITT Visual Information Solutions is the developer of ENVI, an industry-leading solution for image analysis. During the past year, ITT has made significant enhancements to its product to better integrate with the ArcGIS product suite. This includes the integration of a common data format (NITF) used by the intelligence community, and this format is now accessible with ArcGIS. The company's latest release also provides direct compatibility with the geodatabase, and ITT continues to work directly with ESRI's development team to enhance its product.
Minneapolis
Partner of the Year: New World Systems Corp.
—Developer
New World Systems develops enterprise solutions for the public safety sector. The company has deployed its systems for more than 750 customers throughout the United States. New World Systems has embedded ESRI technology into its law enforcement computer-aided dispatch (CAD) software for dispatch, records management, and mobile computing.
Olympia
Partner of the Year: Kirsty Burt GIS
—Value-Added Reseller (VAR)
Kirsty Burt GIS has been providing GIS consulting services to government and business since 1992, specializing in enterprise GIS implementations using ESRI software products. The company focuses on GIS planning and management, application design, standards and documentation, ArcGIS migration, and assistance with organizational issues. In 2009, the company worked on several significant projects that were instrumental in moving key ESRI clients forward with their implementations as it partnered with ESRI on developing solid implementation and migration plans for the City of Kent, City of Bothell, and City of Seattle. The company's long track record with successful projects and clients and its status as a trusted team partner with ESRI continue to serve ESRI and the GIS community as a whole. A valued business partner, the company's view of the GIS industry can only be deemed visionary. Beyond the vision, terminology, and acronyms are the challenges of making this work in complex organizations, most of which have been using GIS for many years.
Enterprise GIS requires a complete shake-up of the GIS and IT worlds of the past. GIS professionals are now learning a more comprehensive IT approach, with a focus on the business of the organization as a whole. IT professionals are learning about GIS as part of the IT architecture and about how to include GIS data, software, and staff in enterprise IT development and management. Kirsty Burt GIS has done an excellent job of helping clients move into this new world of enterprise GIS.
Philadelphia
Partner of the Year: GeoDecisions
—Corporate Consultant and Value-Added Reseller (VAR)
GeoDecisions is an information technology company that operates as a division of Gannett Fleming, a multidisciplinary consulting, engineering, and construction management firm. A partner since 2000, GeoDecisions' corporate office is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with additional offices throughout the United States. GeoDecisions has been and will continue to be a key partner with ESRI, with an experienced staff of more than 160 professionals providing innovative geospatial solutions to clients in various markets including transportation, military, government, utilities, environmental, and commercial.
San Antonio
Partner of the Year: NVision Solutions, Inc.
—Consultant and Value-Added Reseller (VAR)
NVision Solutions, Inc., is the developer of HazNet, an ArcGIS Server 9.3 real-time common operating picture (COP) that provides sensor, weather, person, and vehicle tracking; models; resource tracking and management; and field reports for emergency managers at every level of government and industry. HazNet makes emergency operations centers compliant with the latest requirements of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Incident Management System (NIMS) incident command system (ICS). But because HazNet is GIS based, it goes beyond ICS reporting compliance to provide true situational awareness during a crisis, helping save lives and property through better sharing of information and allocation of people, equipment, and other critical resources.
HazNet is based on NVision's experience and lessons learned along the Gulf Coast for Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina. Hancock County, Mississippi, used HazNet successfully for Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Based on these successes, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) purchased a large HazNet installation for its headquarters and the NASA Stennis and Michoud bases.
Both NAVTEQ and Boeing have teamed with NVision to include NAVTEQ's data and a Boeing HazNet client for Windows mobile phones as optional add-ons.
The NASA HazNet installation will include the newly supported Intuiface multitouch surface computer, which includes a HazNet client using the new ESRI ArcGIS Server 9.3 API for Flex on the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform.
DHS has named HazNet a "promising technology" as part of the DHS Safety Act preapplication process. NVision will complete DHS Safety Act certification for HazNet in 2009.
NVision is a trusted and dependable partner for delivering solutions that meet the mission-critical needs of ESRI's customers.
St. Louis
Partner of the Year: HNTB Corporation
—Corporate Consultant
HNTB Corporation is an employee-owned architectural, engineering, and consulting firm with more than 4,000 professionals in more than 60 locations worldwide. It has been a member of the ESRI Business Partner Program since 1999.
HNTB is a longtime user of geographic information system technology to store, analyze, manipulate, and share spatial data. The integration of new ESRI technology allows the company to assist its clients in planning, completing, and managing complex projects and making sound business decisions to lower costs while maintaining high standards. This GIS-savvy engineering team quantifies and automatically updates spatial data, generates predictive models, and provides an efficient and objective mechanism for asking and answering those difficult what-if questions.
HNTB brings a GIS staff to the table that can communicate in the client's language, thus providing GIS services for a wide range of federal and public- and/or private-sector projects. These specialists work in transportation, bridges, aviation, architecture, urban design and planning, environmental engineering, water, and construction services. HNTB serves its clients with integrity, technical excellence, and a commitment to performance—providing quality work on time, on budget, and to the client's satisfaction.
Washington, D.C.
Partner of the Year: Dewberry & Davis LLC
—Corporate Consultant
Dewberry & Davis LLC has become more involved strategically with ESRI over the past year. Its staff members are experts in the field of architecture and engineering disciplines, and the company has become a household name within federal, state, and local agencies for the quality work it does.
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