With annual sales of more than $340 million, ESRI has been the world leader in the geographic information system (GIS) software industry for more than 30 years. Additionally, ESRI provides powerful GIS solutions to more than 300,000 clients in more than 189 countries. Headquartered in Redlands, California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, several subsidiary companies overseas, and more than 1,000 industry leaders and business partners who partner with ESRI to provide software, data, and hardware that complement ESRI's suite of GIS software. Working with location information, ESRI's GIS software and solutions give you the power to solve problems you encounter every day. Organizations around the world, as well as local, state, and federal government agencies, are using ESRI GIS software to make smart and timely decisions.

As the leader in GIS technology, ESRI offers innovative solutions that will help you create, visualize, analyze, and present information better and more clearly. ESRI software is built on standard and open information technology and has been designed to operate with all-relational database management systems. ESRI's software is developed with open (nonproprietary) development tools, and our software is built on new, modern, object-component software standards (COM) that are easily customized and embedded for a wide range of application needs. ESRI's comprehensive product line ranges from desktop GIS to GIS for the enterprise--and our Internet software revolutionizes the way users can access and interact with Internet mapping and GIS data at the desktop, thereby making the promise of distributed GIS a reality that is easy to accomplish.

ESRI will continue to lead the world in providing mapping technology that meets the needs of today's competitive market. Look to ESRI for GIS solutions to help unlock the spatial component of your valuable data and see your organization's information from a new perspective. www.esri.com

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