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Esri, along with strategic business partners, is committed to building interoperable and open commercial off-the-shelf software products. Open access to geographic data and software functionality using widely adopted, practical standards is our primary focus.

Esri's ArcGIS Products

  • Support all relevant GIS and IT standards
  • Provide open application programming interfaces
  • Comply with Web services standards
  • Support key data interchange formats

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