ESRI Reaches Groundbreaking Agreement with Shell.REDLANDS, Calif. -- Building upon a successful Multinational Enterprise contract signed 4 years ago, ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. and Shell International Exploration and Production B.V. have agreed to expand their relationship and implement a comprehensive agreement under which Shell and all its affiliates worldwide can access all of ESRI's software products. The global agreement allows Shell to deploy and support ESRI software throughout its organization. The enterprise solution comprises ESRI's full line of software including the ArcGIS family of desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) and server (ArcIMS, ArcSDE, and ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Server is a GIS software package made by ESRI to provide Web-oriented spatial data services. Since version 9.2 the product ArcGIS Server includes also the spatial data management software (formerly known as ArcSDE). ArcGIS Server supports software development on the . ) products. Support is provided by dedicated Shell staff and a network of regionalized ESRI distributor technical support centers to cover the multiple time zones of Shell's global business. The Shell agreement is believed to be the first of its kind in the geographic information system geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to (GIS) and energy industries. Shell uses GIS technology to integrate and visualize complex business information from many different sources and produce cartographic car·tog·ra·phy n. The art or technique of making maps or charts. [French cartographie : carte, map (from Old French, from Latin charta, carta, paper made from papyrus maps of its assets, operations, and environments around the world. The company's GIS framework is currently being extended into a corporate spatial data infrastructure A Spatial Data Infrastructure or SDI is a framework of spatial data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. in which any authorized user authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal on the corporate Intranet will have access to a one-stop portal integrating GIS layers, documents, and company databases in a fully transparent manner. Commented ESRI President Jack Dangermond, "We are honored that Shell has chosen to further expand our relationship." |
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