Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Esri Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to Dr. Jason Gilliland, a professor at Western University and a scientist for the Children’s Health Research Institute, for his outstanding application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to help improve children’s health in Southwestern Ontario. Dr. Gilliland led a multidisciplinary team in a research study of environmental
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Esri Canada congratulates APOS Systems for receiving the Esri Partner Award for Best Enterprise Integration Application at the 2012 Esri Partner Conference in California. The company was recognized for its APOS Location Intelligence Solution (LIS), which integrates Esri’s industry-leading geographic information system (GIS) technology with SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence software. The solution helps organizations improve business
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Alex Miller, President and Founder of Esri Canada, has been named to the Government of Canada’s Advisory Panel on Open Government. He joins a leading group of experts from business, academia and civil society selected to provide the Government with guidance on its open government initiative. The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Esri Canada today announced the successful completion of feasibility studies for building a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Uganda and the Kingdom of Jordan. The results and recommendations from each study have been published by infoDev, as part of a World Bank project on using SDIs to monitor development outcomes.
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Environics Analytics (EA) has named Esri Canada as its partner of the year, making the announcement at its Fifth Annual User Conference held on November 16 at the Toronto Board of Trade. Esri Canada was recognized for its long-time support and recent collaboration embedding a bundle of EA datasets—including PRIZMC2, Demographic Estimates and Projections, HouseholdSpend
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
In celebration of GIS Day, ESRI Canada today announced that the company has awarded more than $2.5 million in 2011 in scholarships, software, books and training to students in more than 45 universities and colleges across the country through its GIS Scholarships program. Now in its sixth year, the program recognizes Canadian universities and colleges
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Nova Scotia Power is the province’s main electricity provider, serving 490,000 residential and business customers. To deliver better service, the utility built OneGIS, a Web portal that leverages ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The solution, which centralizes all of the utility’s spatial asset data and makes it accessible throughout the organization, allows them to better
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Businesses today face increased pressure to optimize return from their direct marketing investment and convert consumer interest into actual purchase. To help marketers effectively reach their target customers, Canada Post has developed a new “Target to Order” tool. The location intelligence application leverages ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology, which integrates addressing with demographic data to
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Protecting the environment requires monitoring land, sea and air conditions, as well as human activity that impacts these resources. It involves collecting, producing and sharing a large amount of data with government agencies, scientists and the public. To efficiently support these processes, Environment Canada built an enterprise Web mapping system based on ESRI’s geographic information
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The spotlight shone on ESRI Canada at the Ontario Business Achievement Awards (OBAA) as the company received the Innovation Award for 2011. Sponsored by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the OBAA recognizes outstanding businesses in the province that have demonstrated innovation and entrepreneurship. Out of hundreds of nominations, ESRI Canada was selected for advancing the
