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New Enhancements Include Smarter Address Matching and Service to 25 Additional Countries
Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced the release of significant enhancements to the World Geocoding service for the company's ArcGIS platform. This update to the World Geocoding service gives users access to 25 additional countries, including Cuba, Bangladesh, and Libya, where street addresses can be located.
World Geocoding empowers users to easily convert addresses into locations—and vice versa—on a map. These new enhancements include improvements such as refined address matching using the latest authoritative datasets, and easier identification of real locations. For the complex problem of intersection matching, the service has been improved to recognize more diverse types of intersections on a visual map showing features that don't physically meet, like overpasses above other roads, or streets that are connected by roundabouts. Coordinates can also be matched to points of interest, postal regions, administrative areas, and countries for enhanced reverse geocoding.
"Different regions around the world have many different formats and requirements for how people write an address on an envelope or how companies input a customer's information into their system," said Nick Patel, Esri product manager. "For the better part of this decade, we have invested millions of dollars in capturing address formats and rules around the world and built all this into address matching logic. It's important that the geocoding component is accurate, as this directly influences downstream analysis and decisions."
Hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world use Esri's World Geocoding capabilities to plot their data on maps.World Geocoding delivers street-level geocoding for over 130 countries, which covers more than 90 percent of the worldwide population. Users can interactively locate addresses on a map—one request at a time—or batch geocode many addresses at once.
The latest version of World Geocoder for ArcGIS is now available in the cloud and for on-premises deployments. For more information, please visit go.esri.com/worldgeocoding.…
first published week of: 07/24/2017
New Plus Subscription to ArcGIS Maps for Power BI Brings Global Demographics, Location-Ready Data, and Greater Mapping Capabilities to Business Customers
Esri announced new ArcGIS Maps for Power BI capabilities. With a Plus subscription, businesses seeking deeper location-based insights into their data will have access to global demographics, expanded data mapping, and more content from Esri’s Living Atlas of the World—an authoritative collection of ready-to-use geographic information.
"As more data becomes available to organizations, it’s increasingly important for them to be able to make sense of it all and quickly get business insights John Doyle, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Corp.
“80 percent of the data that businesses deal with on a day-to-day basis has a location component. The new Plus subscription to ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Power BI looks to shine a light on that location data with new spatial analytics capabilities," said Dirk Gorter, Esri director of product management. "We're excited to give ArcGIS Maps for Power BI users access to more authoritative data and enhanced visualizations that give perspective and improve decision-making. Location-based information like drive-time areas that span across ZIP codes are becoming important sources of intelligence for businesses that need spatial insights to be more cost-effective and competitive."
Power BI is a set of business analytics tools that allows its enterprise users to create dashboards, reports, and data visualizations through a cloud-based service. Using integrated data and location intelligence from Esri’s ArcGIS platform, Power BI enables business and data analysts to identify patterns in information that geography helps reveal.
The new features that users can access in November 2017 with a Plus subscription in ArcGIS Maps for Power BI include the following:
"As more data becomes available to organizations, it’s increasingly important for them to be able to make sense of it all and quickly get business insights," said John Doyle, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Corp. “The interactive data visualization possible with Power BI, combined with Esri’s collection of geographic data, provides our mutual customers the benefit of being able to make more informed, location-based decisions.”
To learn more about a Plus subscription to Esri’s ArcGIS Maps for Power BI, visit go.esri.com/Plus-Subscription.
first published week of: 10/02/2017
Esri Selected for the Second Consecutive Year in Ranking of Top U.S. Companies to Work For
Esri announced its inclusion in Forbes magazine's 2017 America's Best Midsize Employers list. For the second consecutive year, Esri has been honored among the top U.S. companies, which were rated by employees in an independent, anonymous survey.
The combination of Esri's purpose to improve the world with its products and a supportive, collaborative workplace is one of the keys to employee happiness at Esri Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and president
Work-life balance, outstanding benefits, an on-site fitness facility, and collaboration with colleagues around the world are just some of the things employees like about working at Esri. With an innovative staff of 3,800 people worldwide, the company anticipates hiring 400 more this year. Esri employees are involved with the development of an advanced location technology based on real-time data analysis that helps its users build the maps that run the world.
"The combination of Esri's purpose to improve the world with its products and a supportive, collaborative workplace is one of the keys to employee happiness at Esri," said Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and president. "There is a satisfaction in having a workplace that values its employees and gives them not only the benefits they deserve but also the opportunity to make a difference by providing users with constantly developing technologies. Esri helps spur innovation in fields ranging from infrastructure management to nature conservation, and our employees are behind the location strategies that are making cities run more efficiently and saving the environment, in many cases."
first published week of: 05/15/2017
New Agreement Gives Airbus Defence and Space Online Spatial Analytics for Faster, More Cost-Effective Operations
Esri announced that it entered into an enterprise agreement with the intelligence program line of Airbus Defence and Space. With this new agreement in place, the core GIS will be expanded to meet Airbus's pivotal mission of using creativity and innovation to address the massive economic, social, and environmental challenges our planet faces.
The enterprise agreement is global in nature and includes all Airbus Defence and Space intelligence affiliates. The agreement also includes several addendums to cover the complete use of Esri's ArcGIS platform by Airbus Defence and Space.
"The potential of this agreement can be expected to reach far beyond today's use of the Airbus Defence and Space core geographic information systems," says Greg Buckman, head of Airbus Defence and Space's intelligence business activities in North America. "Enterprise-wide access to the ArcGIS platform will provide new and faster spatial analytical functionality through web services to support key Airbus initiatives. This bears the potential for significant cost savings and speed to market while enhancing crucial cross-domain functionality on a global basis."
Airbus Defence and Space has used Esri technology as part of its GIS for 26 years.
"Esri shares in this vision and looks forward to supporting Airbus Defence and Space through the deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise," said Lawrie Jordan, Esri's director of imagery and remote sensing. "Having a complete GIS platform is vital to organizations such as Airbus Defence and Space that operate on a global scale and for whom geographic awareness is crucial."
first published week of: 12/04/2017
Esri applauded Congress in introducing the Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017 (S. 2128/H.R. 4395). Legislative sponsors Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), U.S. Representative Bruce Westerman (R-AR-04), and U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA-06) demonstrated remarkable leadership in collaborating with GIS organizations across government and industry to advocate for common data standards, interagency collaboration, and transparency to taxpayers on shared national data services.
Agreeing to a common vision will make it easier for federal, state, and local agencies to integrate location data into widespread practice, no matter their size. The American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) industry leadership brought the GIS community together to shape this bipartisan legislation that works for all organizations.
“Esri has a long history of supporting the GIS Community and working to make sure their users’ needs are heard. We applaud their leadership in supporting S. 2128 and H.R. 4395, and look forward to continuing to work with them as this important legislation makes its way through Congress,” said Douglas Richardson, Executive Director of the AAG.
The concept of a portal-to-portal approach for distributed collaboration has long been Esri’s vision. This approach enables new types of collaboration that connects individuals, organizations, and communities and breaks down barriers for sharing geographic knowledge.
“We commend the efforts of GDA’s sponsors along with the AAG, which has taken a leading role in shaping this bill,” said Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and president. “This is a significant piece of legislation to address how geospatial information is organized and disseminated and an indication that our industry continues to thrive. We appreciate the leadership from AAG in bringing the community together to shape legislation that works for all of us.”
Recent technological advances, such as Web GIS and easy imagery integration services, further empower governments and agencies to disseminate information widely and quickly. Standards and practices based on location technology will help eliminate redundancies and increase return on investment.
first published week of: 11/27/2017
Demonstration to Show How Location Analytics of Marine Environments Improves Decision-Making
Esri announced that its technology will be used for the first time with US Navy unmanned vehicle systems to improve how information is gathered before ocean and near-shore operations. Sensor data from maritime remote vehicles is uploaded into a command center where this information can be understood faster and more holistically than ever before. Esri technology knits Navy data together with structured analysis to enable better decision-making.
This week, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC) hosts an “Unmanned System Operational Demonstration” off the coast of Gulfport, Mississippi. RDML Timothy Gallaudet, USN, the Commander of NMOC, established a goal of the unmanned systems demonstration “to demonstrate Naval oceanography’s environmental support capability for Fleet and Joint unmanned systems (UxS) operations.”
Using Esri’s enterprise software, NMOC can now analyze collected data from the ocean such as water temperature, humidity, wind speed, and topography, all in near real-time. Navy commanders can make faster tactical decisions, better incorporating environmental conditions into operational plans. For instance, before deploying Marines onto a beach in a high-risk area, drones or other unmanned vehicles can perform reconnaissance on environmental conditions and even the presence of hazards such as land mines. Read full story at Esri…
first published week of: 06/05/2017