eSpatial and PCI Geomatics sign Strategic Technology Partnership for the delivery of integrated Image Management and Geospatial Solutions

Dublin, Ireland & Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada – December 20, 2005: eSpatial and PCI Geomatics® are pleased to announce the signing of a strategic technology partnership. The alliance will combine eSpatial’s iSMART® Geospatial platform with Geomatica®, PCI’s image management products and solutions software suite, to provide an integrated environment for GeoSpatial solutions delivery.

Both companies are currently working on an integration of their technologies, particularly PCI’s advanced MappingCentre, an automated image processing and mapping delivery system, and eSpatial’s iSMART GeoPortal. iSMART GeoPortal provides a pure web user interface to interact with the underlying MappingCentre workflow and product delivery features.

In addition to the MappingCentre and GeoPortal integration, both companies will utilize each others products in customer opportunities, including use of PCI’s Oracle 10g GeoRaster imagery loading tools.

“PCI are world leaders in the delivery of innovative image management products and solutions” said Eamon Walsh, eSpatial CTO, ”There is a natural fit with iSMART and the innovative enterprise systems we have been delivering, which incorporate the publication and management of vector based Geospatial applications with underlying imagery and raster data”.

“Combining our product sets makes great business sense” commented Brad Schmidt, Vice President, Sales at PCI Geomatics. “eSpatials’ open standards and enterprise based approach to GeoSpatial systems including unique features such as pure web editing, will provide a one-stop-shop to our customers thus reducing development and delivery time and increasing return on investment”.

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of image-centric geomatics software solutions. The PCI Geomatics flagship software, Geomatica, meets the growing demands of the remote sensing, GIS, cartography, and photogrammetry worlds. PCI Geomatics is celebrating the beginning of its third decade as an industry-leading geomatics solution provider, and has long been recognized for offering high-value geomatics software solutions, advanced algorithms, excellent customer assistance, and product support for the widest range of spatial data formats in the industry. Recently, PCI Geomatics has begun offering custom solutions, providing professional services for large and small projects.

About eSPATIAL Solutions

eSpatial, founded in Dublin, Ireland, and with offices in Europe and the US is a world leader in spatial information management technology. Its advanced spatial environment, iSMART, in conjunction with Oracle Spatial, provides a platform for highly scalable and secure spatially enabled applications in a standard enterprise IT environment with unprecedented ease of use, manageability and support for OGC Web Services. Its standard based Rapid Application Development environment and GeoPortal allows organizations to quickly and easily build new applications (or extend existing ones) to include spatial functionality. These applications provide spatial intelligence to anyone, anywhere, on any device, connected or disconnected. eSpatial's technology is used in every area of IT including Public Sector, Defense, Telecommunications and Utility organizations.

iSMART is a registered trademark of eSpatial Solutions Ltd. and / or its affiliates. Oracle® is a trademark of the Oracle Corporation and / or its affiliates.

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