Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Saint-Laurent is a highly industrialized borough in the City of Montreal and the second-largest employment hub in the city, after downtown Montreal. To support its strategic development plan, Saint-Laurent developed GeoUSOL, an urban planning system that leverages ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The innovative system provides planners with advanced mapping and geographic analysis capabilities that
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Spanning over 68,000 square kilometers, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is Canada’s largest municipality by area. To keep track of its numerous dispersed assets and understand how they relate to one another, ESRI Canada today announced that the municipality will deploy a Common Operational Picture (COP) application built on ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology.
Monday, July 18th, 2011
ESRI Canada congratulates the City of Calgary for receiving the ESRI Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for its Core Mapping Project. The City was selected from more than 100,000 organizations worldwide for its outstanding use of geographic information system (GIS) technology to centralize municipal land information maintenance. This enables the City to produce consistent basemaps
Monday, June 20th, 2011
ESRI Canada today announced increased support for Canada’s emergency management community with the release of the ESRI Flex Tools for MASAS. Leveraging ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology and the Adobe Flex framework, the tools interface with Canada’s Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS). The tools and associated code are provided free to emergency management and public
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
ESRI Canada today announced the appointment of Adam Fox as the company’s new Regional Director for Ontario. Mr. Fox will lead the region’s sales organization in providing geographic information system (GIS) solutions to the Ontario market. He previously held a senior account management role within the company, where he successfully managed large enterprise municipal clients in
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
“Emergency managers need to decide and act quickly during a crisis,” said Alex Miller, president, ESRI Canada. “GIS helps them make decisions confidently by allowing them to easily view all emergency incidents in their territory on a map and putting critical information at their fingertips. Manitoba Health’s COP application has revolutionized emergency management in the
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
ESRI Canada today presented the City of Calgary with an Award of Excellence for enhancing its basemapping capabilities using ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology. Through its Core Mapping Project, the City has migrated municipal land information maintenance from their previous computer-aided design (CAD) system to a GIS environment. Centralizing this data in a GIS has
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
ESRI Canada today announced that its Community Maps Program is succeeding in creating a detailed, online national basemap of Canada. The program provides a cost-effective and efficient framework for governments to contribute their geographic information to be shared with the public. Launched in June 2010, the Web map now includes content from more than 40
Friday, May 13th, 2011
ESRI Canada today presented Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen (CFOS) with an Award of Excellence for advancing its Economic Gardening initiative with ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology. Through the use of Esri Business Analyst (Canadian Edition), the nonprofit provides small and medium-size businesses in southwestern British Columbia with market research assistance that supports effective business planning
Friday, April 29th, 2011
ESRI Canada congratulates St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto for being selected as a 2011 Laureate winner for innovation by the International Data Group’s (IDG) Computerworld Honors Program. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. ESRI Canada nominated St. Michael’s Hospital for BIO.DIASPORA, a scientific platform
