Esri Acquires SpotOn, Bringing Spatial Analytics to IBM Cognos Customers

REDLANDS, Calif., Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Esri will exhibit its location intelligence solution, at the Information OnDemand 2011 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 23-27. IBM's Information OnDemand conference is a global event that provides access and exposure to the full breadth of IBM Information Management technologies and experts.

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Recently, Esri acquired SpotOn Systems, maker of products such as SpotOn Vantage Maps, to provide business intelligence solutions in addition to Esri Business Analyst. SpotOn brings interactive mapping to IBM Cognos business intelligence applications. . By making it easy to unite Esri's spatial analytics, data, and maps with IBM CognosBI, SpotOn's award-winning Vantage product provides the analytic element that has been missing to business users.

SpotOn will be showcased in Esri's EXPO booth. Conference attendees are encouraged to drop by booth # G405 and experience the benefits of uniting spatial analytics with enterprise BI solutions.

For more information, visit http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/2011-conference/.

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in 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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