Esri
Esri
is an international supplier of geographic information system (GIS)
software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. The
company is headquartered in Redlands, California.
The company was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute
in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm. Esri products (particularly ArcGIS
Desktop) have 40.7% of the global market share.[3] In 2014,
Esri had approximately a 43 percent share of the GIS software market worldwide,
more than any other vendor.[4]
The company has 10 regional offices in the U.S. and a network of
80+ international distributors,[5] with about a million users
in 200 countries. The firm has 3,200 employees in the U.S., and is still
privately held by the founders. In 2006, revenues were about $660 million.[6] In
a 2009 Investor's Business Daily article, Esri's annual revenues were indicated
to be $1.2 billion, from 300,000 customers ($4000/customer/year).[7]
The company hosts an annual International User's Conference,
which was first held on the Redlands campus in 1981 with 16 attendees. The
User's Conference has been held in San Diego at the San Diego
Convention Center since 1997. An estimated 15,000 users from 131 countries
attended in 2012.[8]
Esri uses the name ArcGIS to refer to its suite of GIS
software products, which operate on desktop, server, and mobile platforms.
ArcGIS also includes developer products and web services. In a general sense,
the term GIS describes any information system that integrates,
stores, edits, analyzes, shares and displays geographic information
for informing decision making. The term GIS-Centric, however, has been
specifically defined as the use of the Esri ArcGIS geodatabase as the asset and
feature data repository central to computerized maintenance management
systems (CMMS) as a part of enterprise asset management and
analytical software systems. GIS-centric certification criteria have been
specifically defined by NAGCS, the National Association of GIS-Centric
Solutions.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri
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