How you Benefit

GIS: Modeling and Mapping the World Around Us

With the vast information sources available today, GIS is a key tool in determining what it all means. People access GIS to

• Measure change
• Do spatial analysis
  The process of examining the locations, attributes, and relationships of features in spatial data through overlay and other analytical techniques in order to address a question or gain useful knowledge. Spatial analysis extracts or creates new information from spatial data.
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• Perform spatial modeling
  A methodology or set of analytical procedures used to derive information about spatial relationships between geographic phenomena.
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• Transact geographic accounting
• Obtain decision support

GIS solutions are emerging as an integral component in nearly every type of business and government service.

GIS networks will support a number of "crosscutting" business drivers including homeland security, environmental security, health care, land use, social services, and emergency management.

Open, Scalable, Standards-Based GIS Technology for Your Organization

ESRI has developed its products based on open standards to ensure a high level of interoperability across platforms, databases, development languages, and applications. ESRI is committed to supporting and actively leading efforts associated with such standards.

• Learn more about GIS Standards and Interoperability.

Our goal is to make GIS a mainstream technology for facilitating more interoperability and integration with the rest of the IT infrastructure. We envision GIS as an integral part of the coordinated information system, not just a project here and there.