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ESRI Named in 2004 DM Review 100 Only GIS Vendor to Receive This Honor
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Redlands, California-ESRI, the world leader in geographic information system
(GIS) technology, today announced it was named in the 2004 DM Review 100.
This prestigious award recognizes the top 100 companies serving the business intelligence community based on a comprehensive survey of DM Review magazine
readers. The only GIS vendor in the ranking, ESRI joined other top
companies, including IBM, SAS, and Business Objects, chosen in the business intelligence, data warehousing, and data management industries. ESRI improved its ranking on the list to 33rd. Its ranking last year was 59th and was also the only GIS vendor named in the 2003 survey.
Rankings were determined by a statistical analysis process. Scores were based on items including product quality, market share, and customer satisfaction.
ESRI's technology helps organizations easily see data in a spatial context across an entire organization, in the field, and on the Internet.
Companies use this information for a variety of applications such as updating and managing assets in real time and providing location-based services to users.
"Companies continue to recognize the value of visualizing data,"
says Jack Dangermond, president, ESRI. "ESRI makes it easy to integrate spatial visualization in an information technology (IT) environment across an organization's enterprise because of our commitment to open standards.
Business users who invest in our software are finding that using GIS technology allows them to make faster and more informed business decisions."
DM Review magazine has been the premier publication for business intelligence, analytics, integration, and data warehousing for the past 14 years. Readers of the magazine were given defined product categories and were asked to select vendors of the products used in their organizations.
Survey participants were asked to respond from mid-May until August 2004.
The winners were announced in the December issue of the magazine.
Visit http://www.DMreview.com to see the results of the survey and read company responses.
About DM Review
DM Review is recognized as the premier business intelligence, business performance management, and data warehousing publication. For more than a decade, DM Review has provided thought provoking and informative editorial covering strategic solutions for business intelligence, analytics, data warehousing, and customer relationship management (CRM) across all major industries. DM Review's authors and columnists are internationally recognized experts in a variety of business intelligence fields. DM Review editorial provides both business and technology perspectives regarding issues, trends, and solutions of interest to corporate executives and IT managers. DM Review is published by Thomson Media (www.thomsonmedia.com), a division of The Thomson Corporation and a leading provider of information, data, and software tools for professionals in the financial services and related technologies markets.
About ESRI
Founded in 1969, ESRI is the leading developer of GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. ESRI software is used in all 200 of the largest cities in the United States and in more than 60 percent of counties and municipalities nationwide. Headquartered in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 1,700 business partners. ESRI's goal is to develop comprehensive tools that enable users to efficiently manage, use, and serve geographic information to make a difference in the world around them. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.
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