Sunday, August 26, 2007

Templates from ArcGIS Server Grant Winners Now Posted Online

ESRI and Stratus Technologies Encourage Governments to Use Publicly Available Resources

Redlands, California—Innovative applications and data delivery templates from the winners of the ESRI and Stratus Technologies ArcGIS Server Demonstration Project Grant Program are now available online at www.esri.com/servertemplates. These reusable applications are based on server GIS technology and can be used by governments with similar projects.

Through these public domain templates, ESRI and Stratus Technologies hope to encourage government agencies to share applications. Exchanging ideas and resources on issues that affect their communities enables governments to meet objectives and better serve the public.

The winners of the ArcGIS Server grant received software, hardware, and training valued at more than $800,000. The recipients were

* Town of Amherst, Massachusetts, Information Technology Department
* State of Texas, Parks and Wildlife Department
* Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Information Technology Department
* St. Clair County, Michigan, Road Commission
* Regional Transportation District of Denver, Colorado, Information Technology Department
* City of New York, New York, Fire Department
* Cabell-Huntington Health Department, West Virginia
* St. Johns County, Florida, GIS Division
* State of Missouri, Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division
* County of Santa Cruz, California, Public Works Department

To learn more about the ESRI and Stratus Technologies ArcGIS Server Demonstration Project Grant, visit www.esri.com/grants and select past grants.

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About Stratus
Stratus Technologies provides customers worldwide with services and systems designed to provide complete, continuous-availability solutions for critical computer-based operations. With its Continuous Processing technology, Stratus serves government, public safety, telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and many other industries in which uptime reliability is important and downtime is not tolerated. Visit Stratus at www.stratus.com.

Press Information:
Emily Vines, ESRI
Tel.: 909-793-2853, extension 1-3571
E-mail (press only): press@esri.com
General Information: info@esri.com

New Data in ArcGIS Business Analyst 9.2 Improves the Accuracy of Marketing Analyses

Redlands, California—ESRI's ArcGIS Business Analyst desktop software now includes ESRI's 2007/2012 demographic data update and segmentation, business, and shopping center data. This data update, available today, is the most current and accurate information about the U.S. population. The software innovations delivered at the 9.2 release, coupled with this update to the industry's best datasets, create the optimal business analysis solution that is ArcGIS Business Analyst.

"This is a major data update from previous versions of ArcGIS Business Analyst," says Mark Berry, ArcGIS Business Analyst product manager, ESRI. "It includes new developments in data sources, methods, and the measurement of continuing population changes in the Gulf Coast communities after the 2005 hurricane season."

The 2007 data updates to ArcGIS Business Analyst 9.2 include

* ESRI's 2007/2012 demographic data estimates and projections
* Segmentation data from Community Tapestry down to the census tract level
* Business data for approximately 12 million U.S. businesses from infoUSA (vintage January 2007)
* Shopping center data for 4,200 major U.S. shopping centers from Directory of Major Malls (vintage January 2007)

ArcGIS Business Analyst is well known as an effective solution for site selection; however, organizations have also realized the benefit of leveraging the product's rich demographic and consumer spending datasets with their own data for targeted marketing and decision making. This new data release takes data-driven analysis to the next level giving organizations the latest data to profile customers and constituents, find similar segments, craft marketing messages, and support analysis for market expansion.

While the solution ships today to new users with the 2007/2012 data update, existing ArcGIS Business Analyst users current on maintenance will automatically receive the data update.

For more information about ArcGIS Business Analyst, visit www.esri.com/ba or call 1-800-447-9778.

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Press Information:
Barbara Shields, ESRI
Tel.: 909-793-2853, extension 1-2641
E-mail (press only): press@esri.com
General Information: info@esri.com

Land Change Modeler for ArcGIS

Clark Labs, a member of the ESRI Business Partner Program, is developing its Land Change Modeler for Ecological Sustainability as a new software extension for ArcGIS. Developed in cooperation with Conservation International, and currently available in IDRISI Andes, the incorporation of the Land Change Modeler for the ArcGIS platform will ensure the broadest possible use of this important tool. The Land Change Modeler offers an extensive suite of tools to assess and predict land cover change and determine the implications of change for ecological sustainability.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

GPS Kit

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