April 25, 2007--  During the world-wide Business Partner Conference 2007 in Palm Springs, CA, ESRI Inc. selected its strategic partner AED-SICAD for this year’s Foundation Partner Award. This prize category is awarded to ESRI partners who showed special commitment in setting up a strong, close and lasting cooperation between the companies. Partners like AED-SICAD are the foundation on which the comprehensive ESRI Partner Program is built. 

On March 18, 2007, Jack Dangermond, founder and president of ESRI Inc., personally handed over the Foundation Partner Award to AED-SICAD’s board members, who were all present. Dangermond thanked the company and its employees for their continuous effort in the development and marketing of new ArcGIS based solutions and stressed the successful cooperation over the years.

AED-SICAD is strategic partner of ESRI for the business segments land management and utilities. Already in March 2004, AED-SICAD has been awarded as “Partner of the Year”.

The official statement for choosing AED-SICAD for the award is as follows:

“Since becoming a business partner in 2001, AED-SICAD has established itself as the largest solution reseller for ESRI Geoinformatik GmbH as well as ESRI's most strategic partner in the European utility and land management markets. This success results directly from AED-SICAD's strong efforts in reengineering former proprietary but well-introduced market solutions on the modern ArcGIS standard technology platform. By focusing on the utility and land management sectors, AED-SICAD is able to leverage its experience through the development of a family of products that encompasses the best practices in each industry within a highly configurable enterprise system.

AED-SICAD knows that the business success and ongoing growth of the ArcGIS customer base is caused by not only the migration of existing clients but also winning more and more new major customers. With this award ESRI is recognizing five years of strong technical and business development work and carrying the spirit of ESRI to new customers in the utility and land management markets.”

About AED-SICAD
AED-SICAD Aktiengesellschaft (AED-SICAD), Bonn/Munich, Germany , is the leading GIS application house in Europe , offering standard applications and tailor-made solutions. Our portfolio comprises high-end geo-information systems for the key segments cadastre, land management, utilities and local government.
AED-SICAD employs more than 200 people. With various office sites in Germany as well as numerous distribution partners worldwide AED-SICAD offers a high degree of customer proximity. Additionally, we make use of the international sales channels of ESRI, Leica Geosystems and Siemens. ESRI and Leica Geosystems are holding shares in AED-SICAD. AED-SICAD owns a majority interest of 51% in its business partner BARAL. Since January 1, 2007 AED-SICAD holds a 50% share of the company ARC-BERLIN.

We develop innovative standard applications and branch-specific solutions and offer individual services ranging from project management and consulting, customer-specific customization and localization to technical support and training. The new generation of professional standard applications based on the leading ArcGIS® core technology comprises: ArcFM™ UT for the utility industry and LM on ArcGIS® for cadastre and land management as well as the  AED-SICAD GIS Portal, the Web platform for all sectors. 

Contact:

Andrea Schmitz
International Communications
AED-SICAD Aktiengesellschaft
Tel. +49 (0)89 45026 218
Fax +49 (0)89 45026 102
cell +49 (0)172 878 3904
mailto: andrea.schmitz@aed-sicad.de