Attendees Will Find a Wide Range of GIS Solutions from Industry Leader and 10 Business Partners

Redlands, California - July 17, 2008―ESRI will host a GIS Pavilion at the 2008 American Public Works Association International Public Works Congress and Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana. The GIS Pavilion will be open August 17–19 in the exhibit hall, booth #2031.

Staff from ESRI and ESRI Canada Limited will be available to answer attendees' questions and demonstrate geographic information system (GIS) solutions tailored to meet the needs of public works professionals. Ten ESRI business partners are also participating in the GIS Pavilion: CompassCom, EnterInfo, Spatial Data Integrations, TRANSMAP, VUEWorks, CartêGraph, RouteSmart, TC Technology, Trimble, and Woolpert.

"The pavilion will provide attendees with one place where they can get all the information they need about developing a GIS-based public works information system and using GIS for improved operational awareness, planning, and asset management," said Chuck Cmeyla, ESRI's public works industry solutions manager. "With 12 organizations participating, many experts will be on hand to answer questions and demonstrate innovative GIS software solutions."

For more information on ESRI GIS solutions for public works, visit www.esri.com/publicworks

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Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit www.esri.com.

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