ESRI

ESRI ( Environmental Systems Research Institute ) is an American software developer of geographic information systems (GIS). Based in Redlands in California and completely privately owned company was founded in 1969 by Jack Dangermond, who is still president of the company. ESRI in the United States employs approximately 2,800 people and has an annual turnover of around 794 million U.S. dollars. The company has ten commercial offices in the United States and another 80 around the world.

The main products are geographic information systems and be under the name of ArcGIS than ever a family of products for the server and the desktop area combined. ArcGIS Desktop includes (formed every three each by ArcMap and ArcCatalog ) is essentially the products ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo; ArcReader and ArcGIS Explorer. The product family ArcGIS Server, however, formed by the ArcGIS Server in different editions ( stages of development ), the ArcIMS and ArcSDE as a central data management component.

The native file formats of this product group are represented by Shapefile, Arc / Info coverage and since the introduction of ArcGIS essentially the ESRI geodatabase. ESRI is, inter alia, in competition with Autodesk, Intergraph, MapInfo, Manifold, Small World and Pitney Bowes.

The official distributor for Germany and Switzerland is the ESRI Germany GmbH in Kranzberg and ESRI Switzerland AG in Switzerland. Until 1 July 2009, the ESRI Germany GmbH was renamed as ESRI geospatial GmbH and ESRI Switzerland AG as ESRI geospatial AG. With effect from 1 July 2006, the ESRI geospatial GmbH, has participated in the con terra GmbH, Münster. At the same time, the Managing Director of con terra GmbH, Albert Remke, acquired shares in the ESRI geospatial GmbH as new shareholders. ESRI software and a range of associated services such as training, consulting, implementation, customization, software -as- a-service (rent, hosting) is also available through a network of authorized dealers.