Redlands, California—April 27, 2011 — Esri recently secured membership in TM Forum, an industry association dedicated to the improvement of telecommunications business operations, and will participate in TM Forum's  Management World 2011 event, scheduled for May 23–26 in Dublin, Ireland.

The TM Forum membership spans 75 countries and 700 companies and includes the world's largest telecommunications service providers.

"We are proud to join the ranks of TM Forum," said Randy Frantz, telecommunications and location-based service (LBS) solutions manager for Esri. "Additionally, we are excited to be part of the Management World event—widely respected as the annual meeting place of the industry."

At Management World 2011, attendees will have the opportunity to meet with Esri experts at booth #26 to ask questions, view live demonstrations, and learn best practices applications of cutting-edge technology.

Telecommunications companies worldwide rely on Esri technology to help collect and analyze network and customer data. With Esri, organizations are able to access a real-time view of network performance, monitor work orders from the office and field, and plan networks that maximize revenue as well as customer satisfaction.

To learn more about Esri technology for telecommunications and to schedule an appointment with an Esri expert at Management World 2011, visit esri.com/tmforum.

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, 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 esri.com/news.



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