Redlands, California— May 26, 2011—Esri received a Strong Positive rating, the highest possible, from Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. The report, MarketScope for Energy and Utility Geographic Information Systems by Randy Rhodes, was published March 22, 2011.

"Utilities around the world rely on Esri technology and Esri partner solutions for crucial business functions including infrastructure management, emergency response, sustainable development, and risk analysis," said Bill Meehan, Esri's director of utility solutions. "We believe that Gartner's Strong Positive rating affirms our commitment to continue to meet the dynamic and evolving needs of the utility industry."

Esri's ArcGIS technology integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. Utility industry users are able to query data and identify relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of interactive maps that can be viewed on the web, from the office, and in the field.

View the complete report, courtesy of Esri, at esri.com/utilityreport.

About MarketScope

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure up to criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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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