ESRI ArcGIS Server, Together with IBM Maximo Spatial, Integrates Asset and Facilities Management into a Single, Scalable, and Continuous Solution

Redlands, California—February 4, 2009—ESRI, the world's leading provider of geographic information system (GIS) software, will describe how ArcGIS Server with IBM Maximo Spatial delivers a single, scalable solution for asset and facilities management (FM) at IBM's Pulse conference being held February 8–12, 2009, at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. ESRI will demonstrate and discuss how customers can design and deploy one continuous, enterprise geodatabase for assets both inside and outside facilities, giving property and facilities management professionals the tools and data they need to manage land, infrastructure, and building assets.

Clients like the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and National Park Service (NPS) use GIS to enhance their infrastructure and facilities asset management. Using ESRI's ArcGIS Server and IBM Maximo Spatial, these agencies integrate spatial information and related infrastructure asset and work management data seamlessly. This allows NPS to better visualize assets and create smarter situational awareness, while BIA has expanded its ability to use asset data through integrating GIS with external systems.

Dennis Smith, ESRI federal government business development manager, and Julio Olimpio, ESRI strategic alliance manager for IBM, will be presenting a paper entitled "Location, Location, Location—Improve Asset Management by Taking GIS Inside the Building" on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the MGM Conference Center in room 112. This paper will address the importance of location in an asset management context, how traditional enterprise asset management (EAM) systems can scale to include FM capability, and the reasons why spatially enabled asset management is an especially critical business function in a down economy.

ESRI, a two-time IBM Public Sector Top Star business partner, will be showcasing GIS facility demonstrations at booth no. 215 featuring ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS Server is the foundation for IBM's Maximo Spatial Asset Management product. Maximo Spatial brings together the functionality of GIS and asset and service management products in a modern service-oriented architecture based on Java, XML, and Web services.

For more information on ESRI's solutions for facilities management and infrastructure, visit www.esri.com/fm. For more information on how ESRI and IBM continue to bring powerful solutions for managing buildings and assets, visit www.esri.com/ibm. To register for the IBM Pulse conference, visit www.ibm.com/tivoli/pulse.

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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 us at www.esri.com.



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