ESRI: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
Website: www.esri.com
E-mail: info@esri.com
Phone: (909) 793-2853 or (800) 447-9778
ESRI are the market leaders in GIS, they provide a variety
of GIS software of interest to builders of SDSS. ESRI collaborates with a wide
range of partners
providing specialist add-on products for use with ESRI software.
They take information such as, customer street addresses and postal codes, store locations and customer product registration information of sales data, locations of stores, factories, and warehouses, the address, cross street, or geographic coordinates of equipment such as telephone poles and electric transformers and routes for deliveries and connects it to a physical location somewhere on the surface of the earth.
Retail, transportation/logistics,
real estate, finance, health care, government—organizations with formidable
infrastructure management challenges—benefit from GIS integrating resources,
visualizing assets, and streamlining work flow processes.
Website: www.mapinfo.com
E-mail: custserv@mapinfo.com
Phone: (800) 327-8627 (North America)
MapInfo is an important provider of desktop GIS software. MapInfo provides Mapx technology which allows mapping components be added to systems built using other development tools such as VB or Delphi. MapInfo allows you to take advantage of location information. Their solutions combine your corporate data sources with external data such as demographics, lifestyle and buying behavior. They provide analysis applications and dynamic information query and delivery systems for everyone in your organization to help you find, serve and grow customers.
Website: www.autodesk.com
E-mail: CustomerService@autodesk.com
Phone: (800) 538-6401 or (415) 507-4600 (US only)
Autodesk provides a range of GIS software and tools. These include: Autodesk World, a desktop package which caters for multiple data formats; Autocad Map, which allows precision mapping and GIS analysis in the AutoCAD environment; and Autodesk Mapguide, which allows creation of an intelligent raster/vector map-driven Web site.
Autodesk can help you manage your data
your way with Autodesk World software, the open, flexible system for accessing,
integrating, and managing all your geographic data. Break the data integration barrier and access your existing GIS
data directly in their native formats without conversion, including ARC/INFO,
ArcView, MapInfo, Intergraph, and other popular vector files.
Website: www.caliper.com
E-mail: Sales@caliper.com
Phone: (617) 527-4700
Caliper Corp provides several types of desktop GIS, including
Transcad, which provides routing, and transportation modeling in a GIS
environment. Caliper is also an highly
regarded consulting and R&D provider offering professional services in
quantitative management consulting, transportation, and decisions support
systems development. Caliper software products are supported with extensive
technical services in GIS applications and training, database development and
software customization.
Caliper is the developer of the Maptitude, GIS+, and TransCAD commercial
geographic information and analysis software packages.
TransCAD Transportation GIS software is the only GIS
designed specifically to support transportation applications such as
transportation planning, facilities management, public transit, and logistics.
TransCAD is used extensively for transportation database development and
maintenance, demand forecasting, operations management, and vehicle routing and
scheduling. TransCAD is widely used in both the public and private sectors,
with a very large user base among branches of the US DOT, state DOTs, and many
statewide and regional planning agencies.
Since its release in 1988, TransCAD has grown to become the dominant GIS
in many of its specialized application areas.
Maptitude is the most capable, accessible, and
affordable full-featured mapping package for Windows. Designed for data
visualization and geographic analysis, Maptitude surpasses other desktop
mapping products by providing expanded functionality, unequaled technology, and
incomparable ease of use at a fraction of the price of other products.
Maptitude comes with a comprehensive library of nationwide and worldwide maps
on CD, including complete US street maps, and Census tract and ZIP Code
boundaries and demographics.
GIS+ is a GIS for professional users that sets
new standards for performance, functionality, and ease of use. In addition to a
complete range of tools for the creation, analysis, and display of geographic
databases, GIS+ includes functions to support enterprise-wide geographic data management.
Tactician
Website: www.tactician.com
E-mail: info@tactician.com
Phone: 978-475-4475 or
toll-free
800-927-7666 (North America only)
Tactician develops and supplies mapping software and data for sales, marketing, and business planning. Tactician software products use interactive mapping technology to help companies visualize business information and make decisions.
Tactician 5 is the industry’s most powerful mapping and analysis engine.
Snap-on-Solutions “snap-on” to Tactician 5 for focused Micro-Marketing applications.
MapScape is Tactician’s Internet application that provides interactive mapping and reporting over the Internet. Marketers can make decisions ranging from global to street level.
Environmental Software and Services (ESS)
Website: www.ess.co.at
E-mail: info@ess.co.at
Phone: +43225263305
ESS in Austria specializes in the development and implementation of Integrated Environmental Information Systems and model-based Decision Support Systems for a broad range of applications in environmental planning and management. ESS products combine state-of-the-art simulation and optimization models, data analysis, GIS, and expert systems. ESS provides products in six areas.
1. interactive simulation, optimization models
2. distributed databases and GIS applications
3. expert systems and knowledge
4. graphics, multimedia, scientific visualization
5. client-server distributed information systems
6. Intra/Internet
solutions
Facet Decision Systems, Inc.
Website: www.facet.com
E-mail: info@facet.com
Phone: 604-606-8070
Facet Decision Systems, Inc. builds Decision Management software products for Business Intelligence users. Decision Management is the process of assembling information, analyzing it, and presenting it graphically, so you understand what is going on and can make informed decisions. All Facet products are client-server, web-ready products. User interfaces are Java-based, using Internet browser technology to run over Intranets and the Internet. Their products, training, and services consists of the following:
Cause&Effect, Decision Management Portal tools that let you assemble, analyze, and understand more information in a shorter amount of time. Processes for data assembly, analysis, workflow, visualization, and interaction over the Web.
Frameworks, organizes Decision Processes so they are efficient, transparent, repeatable, well informed and fast.
FastTracks,
manages the process of building Decision Management systems. An efficient way to use technologies
provides checkpoints for risk management and evaluation of direction,
priorities, and scope.
Graticule
Website: www.graticule.com
Phone: sales@graticule.com
E-mail: +44 113-234 4000
Graticule provides desktop and Internet mapping solutions, route finding and navigation and software tool-kits.
MapServer 5, offers developers a range of capabilities for generic desktop mapping in Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT. It can create different types of maps (thematic, topographic, plans, cadastres, street atlases, etc.) dynamic maps show almost real-time changes and maps at multiple scales.
Demo MapServer 5 Turbo.
RouteFinda/Shortest Route Network Analysis DLL, a component for shortest-route and fastest route analysis through a network such as roads, railways, air routes, sea routes, pipelines, telecommunications, and other networks. Used for vehicle navigations and route planning.
Nobility
Website: www.nobility.com
E-mail: webmaster@nobility.com
Nobility EM provides comprehensive assessment and reporting of environmental impacts; identification of optimum approaches to mitigation and monitoring; and efficient "what if" evaluation of alternatives. Unique in the environmental software industry, Nobility EM provides a wide range of users with integrated access to environmental knowledge, information and tools for faster, better decision making.
Nobility RIMS is designed specifically for defense customers. Nobility RIMS (Range Information Management System) is a military range and training area scheduling system that fulfills a number of natural resource management functions including scheduling and tracking of facilities and lands, maintenance of on-line spatially based environmental inventories and management of safety issues.
Website: dsslink.com/arcview.htm
E-mail: webguy@dsslink.com
Phone: 888-840-6100
Arc View creates pattern visualization software, a type of software that can help correlate and analyze the wealth of data that abounds in most organizations' sales and marketing departments. Helps businesses "see" customer concentrations, sales patterns or the results of advertising campaigns. Arc View is beneficial to banks seeking a site for a new automated teller machine, a fast-food franchiser assigning territories, a retailer locating a new store or a distributor planning delivery routes.