ESRI's rivals have made inroads into its stronghold in government and public health agencies.
The first joint release with Esri is a geocoding service that launches today on the Geoloqi API.
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In one demonstration an ESRI engineer zoomed to within 6 inches of a building rooftop in Los Angeles.
The Arizona Republic uses ESRI software to pinpoint for advertisers the best neighborhoods and residences for their inserts.
The map on ESRI's Web site, showing driving directions to its headquarters, is inferior to Google's version of the same.
The state of Pennsylvania used a similar ESRI program in 2001 to contain a bird flu outbreak on several farms.
As acquisitions go, Case makes it sound like her decision to sell to Esri has been as positive as they come.
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Because the WSN and Esri ArcGIS application will run on Microsoft Azure, even small carriers can use it, Pierre added.
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But to ESRI, a GIS solution is about building a better future, improving quality of life and making better decisions.
Esri logoEsri is a company that develops mapping and geographic information systems to help businesses easily visualize and share spatial information.
After all, SAP has supported use of the data in its applications by firms like ESRI that offer advanced geo-spatial mapping capabilities.
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The saving rate, some 2.3% in 2007, may have risen as high as 11.5%, says Alan Barrett at ESRI, a Dublin-based research institute.
Esri can provide thousands of data-points to help you pick the best stretch of highway from foot traffic to real estate costs to per-capita spending.
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Esri, for the uninitiated, is a market leader in geo-planning software, and has been helping companies and organizations track activity through geographic knowledge since 1969.
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Last October Esri acquired SpotOn, a geo-spatial business intelligence software developer which worked with IBM Cognos to provide customers with embedded maps in their reports.
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Falk Huettmann, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Alaska's Fairbanks campus, uses ESRI software to track the spread of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus.
But with the new release ESRI will make big use of standard Web languages such as XML and Java to create maps far easier to use--and more fun--for clients.
By providing location functions, data and visualization tools as a service much like SalesForce.com provides CRM services, ESRI is aiming to bring location analytics to main stream business users.
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Richard and I are friends and share many similar passions, so it was an honor when he asked Esri to host a conference that would promote understanding and conversation.
ESRI's software's key strength is the "club sandwich effect" by which customers handle advanced spatial analysis with up to dozens of layers of data from economic, demographic and environmental databases.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the deal has been in the works since 2011 when Case and Esri staffers met at a developers conference in Portland.
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Yet ESRI itself, until now focused mainly on high-end corporate and government clients, is responding to the Google excitement by making its latest software features available online to the mapping masses.
ESRI's publicly traded competitors, including MapInfo, Intergraph and Autodesk, are all growing nicely, too, and they often outhustle ESRI in markets such as direct mail targeting and retail store site selection.
In the past, Esri focused on mapping and visualization.
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Today geographic information systems leader Esri announced its acquisition of geo-locating platform Geoloqi, the 2010 FORBES Name You Need To Know company led by 26-year-old CEO Amber Case.
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The low-key Dangermond says revenue will rise nearly 15% this year and will grow more than 20% in each of the next two years, once ESRI releases the next big version of its GIS software.
"In the last three to four years our companies in Asia have been seeing a 20% to 30% average annual growth, reflecting the growth of the economies there, " says Dave Byers, head of ESRI, Asia-Pacific Region.
We'll be integrating the Geoloqi location technology into the Esri platform in July 2013 and will be able to open up an entire world of datasets and solutions accessible before only by geographers, scientists and researchers.
Insurance and reinsurance firm will have new tools for predictive modeling of events like tropical storms in January when Wall Street Network (WSN) launches a cloud-based solution it is developing with Esri, the mapping company.
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