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2007 Third Quarter
IBM Honors ESRI with Top Star Award for Being "Best of the Best" Redlands, California - IBM, the world leader in information technology, has named ESRI a recipient of its 2007 Public Sector Top Star Award for consistently demonstrating the "Best of the Best" business partner qualities. DMTI Spatial Honors Dr. Roger Tomlinson for his Pioneering influence on Location Intelligence Markham, ON - At a special dedication event held at their head office on August 21, DMTI Spatial, a leading provider of Location Intelligence, honored Dr. Roger Tomlinson for his contribution the development of Geographic Information Systems, a core technology that enables Enterprise-scaled Location Intelligence. Infonaut and Kingston Public Health to Build Real-Time GIS Syndromic Surveillance System Ottawa, ON - Infonaut and Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health (KFLA PH) were recently awarded significant funding by GeoConnections for the creation of a Geospatial Decision Support - Syndromic Surveillance system. Syndromic surveillance" applies to surveillance using health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response. St-Hubert Bar-B-Q Ltd. Selects DMTI Spatial and ESRI Canada to Streamline Order Management and Improve Call Center Customer Service Markham, ON - DMTI Spatial, a leading provider of Enterprise location intelligence, has been selected by St-Hubert Bar-B-Q Ltd., a major restaurant chain based in Québec, to coordinate and optimize its order management system located in Montreal for home delivery from the company's 100 restaurants located in Québec, Ontario and New Brunswick. Each year the company receives close to 2 million calls. Using DMTI's CanMapT Street Files and postal code products utilizing ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Desktop software from ESRI Canada, customer service agents at St-Hubert's call center can pinpoint the exact location of a customer and immediately send their order to the restaurant closest to them. Additionally, the same application is used to located customers using the web site to order from the restaurant online. 2006 Census Release Reveals Continued Aging of Canada's Population Toronto, ON - New results from the 2006 Census reveal the continued ageing of Canada's population, according to an Environics Analytics analysis of just released data from Statistics Canada. In 2006, one in seven Canadians (13.7%) was over the age of 65 while 17.7% were under the age of 15. By comparison, 50 years ago less than one in ten Canadians (7.7%) were over 65 years old and nearly one third of the population (32.5%) was under 15. Latitude Geographics Releases Service Pack 1 for Geocortex Essentials 1.1 Victoria, BC - Latitude Geographics announces the availability of Geocortex Essentials 1.1, Service Pack 1. Geocortex Essentials is extension software that jumpstarts the process of building applications built on ESRI's ArcGIS Server 9.2 and ADF technologies. Geocortex Essentials includes a powerful development foundation and ready-to-use tools that simplify the process of creating and managing enterprise ArcGIS Server applications. Environics Analytics Featuring Demographer Doug Norris to Analyze New Census Data on Canadians Toronto, ON - With the release of the next wave of Census data scheduled for July 17th, Dr. Doug Norris, Senior Vice President and Chief Demographer of marketing services company Environics Analytics, will provide expert analysis of the latest findings about the age and sex of Canadians. The former Director General of Social and Demographic Statistics at Statistics Canada will lead an online web seminar and make himself available for media interviews-all to help the general public and business leaders understand the implications of this second installment of the 2006 Census. |
