News
Read the latest in ESRI Australia media releases, news articles and feature stories.
2009 January-June Training Schedule Released
Overview
The training schedule for the first half of 2009 is now available. To find out what training courses are scheduled in your state, visit our online training calendar or download our 2009 training schedule.
Latest GISette Newsletter Now Available
Overview
The latest edition of ESRI Australia's GISette newsletter is now available. Find out about all the latest news, events, case studies, technology tips and training information.
OZRI 2008 - A Great Success
Overview
ESRI Australia's 22nd national client conference, OZRI 2008, was a great success, with 450 conference delegates attending the three day conference in Canberra.
The conference was opened by ESRI Australia Managing Director Brett Bundock, who used his keynote presentation to discuss the value and uniqueness of the GIS profession, and what the spatial industry offers now and in the future.
Brisbane City Council Selects ESRI Australia
Overview
Brisbane City Council has selected ESRI Australia in a recent tender to supply an integrated Geographic Information System (GIS) Tools of Trade solution.
The largest local government in the Asia-Pacific region, Brisbane City Council covers an area of 1367 square kilometres, with a resident population of almost one million people - more than 24% of Queensland's total population.
The ESRI Australia enterprise-wide location intelligence solution chosen by Brisbane City Council will standardise and centralise the Council's GIS architecture, and will be rolled out over two phases.
Dekho v2.1.1 Now Available
Dekho minor release now available
The release provides bug fixes and supports the release of Dekho v2.1.
If you are an existing Dekho user and require the v2.1.1 patch, please email us.
Special Achievement Awards Announced
Overview
7th August 2008 - Three Australian organisations have been announced as winners of Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards at this week's ESRI User Conference in San Diego, California. Special Achievement in GIS Awards are given each year at the ESRI User Conference to recognise the extraordinary accomplishments of GIS users around the world
Department for Families & Communities Scoops SA Spatial Excellence Awards
Overview
The South Australian Department for Families and Communities (DFC) was the big winner at the South Australian Spatial Excellence Awards 2008, winning two industry awards and their GIS Manager winning the major individual award.
The Department is an innovative user of location intelligence, and has integrated GIS into many of their business processes.
SA Water Extends Location Intelligence Capabilities
Overview
SA Water is a government owned corporation, providing water and wastewater services to over 1.5 million customers in South Australia. To ensure continued high levels of customer service, and to meet increasingly stringent regulations, SA Water's location intelligence capability needed to be extended throughout the organisation and external parties, and integrated with other corporate databases.
Read the success story to find out how SA Water can now answer customer enquiries with increased efficiency and accuracy, reducing a backlog of enquiries and reducing staff overtime.
ESRI Australia Releases Dekho v2.1
Find out more about Dekho
Overview
The latest version of ESRI Australia's location intelligence gateway, Dekho v2.1, is now available. With improvements to existing functionality and a range of new extensions available, Dekho v2.1 enhances the user experience and delivers improved administration and additional security features.
ESRI Australia Drives Financial Services Growth with New Appointment
Overview
ESRI Australia has appointed Telma Cordeiro to the role of its Financial Services Industry (FSI) Business Manager. This new appointment will see Cordeiro responsible for the growth of the FSI business for the company, supporting the company to deliver evolving location intelligence technology through a focus on the financial sector.
Latest GISette Newsletter Now Available
Overview
The latest issue of The GISette, our 8 page newsletter, is now available. In this issue of The GISette, you'll hear how two Australian organisations are using location intelligence to gain significant benefits across their organisations. The newsletter also includes the latest training and event information, and a round up of ESRI Australia company news.
OZRI 2008 Online Registration Now Open
Access the online registration form
Overview
Registration is now open for ESRI Australia's 22nd national client conference, OZRI 2008. To be held at the National Convention Centre in Canberra on 27-29 October, this year'?s OZRI will focus on the theme 'Putting knowledge into place'.
Registration is now available online, with a $110 discount off the standard registration fee available for delegates who register before 29 August. The registration brochure, incorporating the provisional program, is currently being finalised, and will be available in mid June.
ESRI Australia Partners With SSI
Overview
ESRI Australia today announced its partnership with the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI), joining the industry body's Sustaining Partners Program as a Platinum Plus Partner.
As the first organisation to partner with SSI at the Platinum Plus level, the partnership identifies ESRI Australia as one of the country's leading location intelligence organisations.
Next Generation Location Intelligence Gateway Launched
Find out more about Dekho
Overview
ESRI Australia is proud to announce the release of our next generation location intelligence gateway, Dekho. Dekho gives users the ability to link seemingly independent information together from corporate databases and systems using location as the common theme.
With the Internet version released at OZRI 2007 in October last year, the new version of Dekho provides the more sophisticated functionality required in an intranet environment, such as third party application integration, redlining, bookmarks, improved security and Active Directory integration.
DFC Opens Door to On Demand Imagery Access
Overview
The South Australian Department for Families and Communities (DFC) has long understood the importance of providing its staff with easy access to corporate information, implementing a comprehensive internal portal for staff to access demographic research, analyse suitable housing and facilitate asset queries. Late last year, DFC decided to expand upon this portal, and include a wide range of key Departmental imagery for staff to access.
Learn more from this case study about how DFC has reduced the time between acquiring and publishing images from several weeks to a few hours, increasing the usage and value of the Department?s geospatial imagery.
QLD Government Shares Location Intelligence Across the Enterprise
Overview
The Queensland Government has implemented ESRI server GIS technology at an enterprise level, making the technology available to all users of GovNet, the Queensland Government?s intranet site.
The server-based technology allows all staff members from Queensland Government to access the Information Queensland (IQ) online atlas through a map viewer.
WA Schools Spatial Competition Winners
Overview
ESRI Australia would like to congratulate the winners of the 2007 Western Australia Spatial Technology in Schools Competition, announced in front of more than 100 students, teachers, mentors and sponsors at a recent prize giving event.
As part of our commitment to developing schools student?s knowledge of location intelligence and GIS, ESRI Australia provided software free of charge for schools entering the competition.
2007 Web GIS Challenge Winners Announced
Overview
Geoscience Australia's MapConnect website was announced winner of the 2007 Web GIS Challenge at this week's ESRI Australia national client conference, OZRI 2007. The City of Whitehorse's Whitehorse Mapping - GIS Online website was awarded runner up.
The MapConnect website received the most votes from the Australian GIS community, and was voted as having the best mapping website in the country in terms of innovation, ease of use, clarity of information, functionality and overall look.
Dekho, ESRI Australia's Next Generation Web GIS Gateway, Launched at OZRI 2007
Overview
Dekho, ESRI Australia's next generation web GIS gateway, was launched on Tuesday 16 October 2007 at the 21st ESRI Australia national client conference, OZRI 2007.
Dekho experts delivered an overview presentation and live demonstrations which outlined the features, functionality and benefits of this exciting new technology.
EastLink Project Wins Spatial Excellence Award
Read the EastLink Project Success Story
Overview
ESRI Australia client Thiess John Holland received the Infrastructure and Construction award for their use of GIS in the ground-breaking EastLink Project at the recent 2007 Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards.
Special Achievement in GIS Award
Overview
The City of Greater Geelong was presented with the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for Australia at ESRI Australia's recent national client conference, OZRI 2007.
The SAG Award was presented to the City of Greater Geelong for their innovative asset inspection system, which was designed to meet both current and future asset maintenance requirements.
International GIS Day 2007
GIS Day aims to educate students, teachers and the general public about GIS, and how this technology is used by more than two million people around the world every day. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society. More than 80 countries will participate in holding local events such as corporate open houses, hands-on workshops, community expos, school assemblies, and more.
For more information about GIS Day, visit http://www.gisday.com/. 