Smallworld targets Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe with global version of its GIS Software product.CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 1997-- Smallworldwide plc (Nasdaq: SWLDY), one of the world's fastest growing vendors of client/server software for the spatial design, engineering and management of complex physical networks, today announced the availability of the global version of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Smallworld GIS (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 ). This global product is aimed primarily at supporting the requirements and conventions of Asian, Eastern European and other languages that do not use standard Roman character sets. "Having a single, global version of our GIS product ensures that we can make all new features available in all markets simultaneously from now on," said David Theriault, Smallworld Product Marketing Manager. "And supporting the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 10646 standard, along with a wide range of configuration tools and utilities in our core product means that we have minimized the task of localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. to specific languages." Playing an important role in the localization task are Smallworld partners. In particular, Mitsubishi Corporation Mitsubishi Corporation (三菱商事株式会社 in Japan performed advanced testing of the Japanese version, including beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the , documentation and localization of the Japanese language Japanese language Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread. in the product. The new release already supports Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Polish and Slovakian languages, and a total of 31 text translators enable most commercially available character sets to be handled. "This global release is at the heart of Smallworld's commitment to place its technology in the mainstream of the corporate information technology environment throughout the world," said Andy Stafford, Chief Executive Officer of Smallworld. "It promises to break open the huge commercial opportunities represented by the rapidly growing markets for GIS software This is a list of notable GIS software applications. See also the comparison of GIS software. Open source software Most widely used open source applications:
Smallworld (http://www.smallworld-us.com)is a leading vendor of open client/server software for the spatial design, engineering and management of complex physical networks. The Company's product, Smallworld GIS, is used primarily by telecommunications companies and utilities to plan, design, build and manage their complex infrastructures, with the objective of increasing their overall efficiency, profitability and competitiveness. Smallworld GIS employs unique object- oriented development and spatial database technologies which enable users to rapidly deploy applications to meet their scalability, performance and integration requirements. The company, headquartered in Cambridge, England, has over 400 customers in over 20 countries around the world. CONTACT: Andy Stafford David Theriault Chief Executive Officer Product Marketing Manager SMALLWORLDWIDE plc SMALLWORLDWIDE plc 44-1223-301144 44-1223-301144 Trina Hardiman Gerard Carney Gavin Anderson & Co. 212-373-0237 |
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