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GIS Serves a Purpose

To be successful, a GIS needs to serve a useful purpose. It must be integrated with the business strategy of your organisation to provide the information you need. The key to defining a successful system is knowing what you want to get out of it.

Bringing Geography to Your Business Intelligence

ESRI, the world leader in GIS and mapping software, can help you unlock the spatial component of your valuable business data and see your information from a new perspective. Backed by more than 30 years of experience, we offer a total range of software products and consulting services from commercial desktop applications to custom development of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). ESRI software is the number one GIS software being used by organizations to help discover solutions to particular business problems.

Integrating Geography With Digital Knowledge

Approximately 80 percent of all business data has a location component. Linking location to information is a process that applies to many aspects of decision making in business and the community. From retail, transportation/logistics, real estate, finance, and environmental agencies to all aspects of government, GIS software can integrate different systems to save valuable resources, visualize an organization's assets, and streamline workflow processes.

Today, the application of GIS is pervasive throughout our society. Geography and GIS help to tie together the intricacies of a multitude of fields by offering end-to-end systems for analyzing and sharing geographical information.

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