Essential Information for Desktop Systems

How You Benefit

GIS: Modeling and Mapping the World Around Us

With the vast information sources available today, GIS is a key tool in determining what it all means. People access GIS to

• Measure change
• Undertake spatial analysis
• Perform spatial modeling
• Transact geographic accounting
• Obtain decision support

GIS solutions are emerging as an integral component in nearly every type of business and government service.

GIS networks will support a number of "crosscutting" business drivers including public safety, environmental security, health care, land use, social services, and emergency management.

Open, Scalable, Standards-Based GIS Technology for Your Organisation

ESRI has developed its products based on open standards to ensure a high level of interoperability across platforms, databases, development languages, and applications. ESRI is committed to supporting and actively leading efforts associated with such standards.