Redlands, Calif. -Esri announced that GeoIQ, a small geo-location company based in Arlington, Va.,
will be joining their organization. The addition of GeoIQ’s team will
strengthen Esri’s capabilities in the areas of user experience design, web
development and cloud-based applications.
"We are excited to join the Esri family, integrating our
technology and extending the Esri platform,” says Sean Gorman, founder of
GeoIQ. “Esri’s approach to ‘GIS for Everyone’ is transformational in the
industry and is very closely aligned with GeoIQ’s vision, so we are
extremely excited about working together.”
“We believe this
will help us supplement our capabilities in delivering simple geospatial
solutions for our customers around the world as well as the rapidly growing web
developer and content delivery communities,” said Jack Dangermond, president,
Esri.
GeoIQ staff will join Esri at a new software development center
located in Washington, D.C. and extend the ArcGIS platform with
special emphasis on federal government clients in the areas of self-service
mapping, analytics, big data, content streaming and social media. This center
will also support web developers that are focusing on geo-enabling their web
solutions with Esri’s geospatial platform. Existing GeoIQ users will continue
to be supported.
Esri Announces GeoIQ to Join Organization
July 10, 2012
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