Esri and MapmyIndia Announce Strategic Business Alliance

REDLANDS, Calif., July 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Esri, the premier developer of geographic information system (GIS) software, announces a strategic alliance with MapmyIndia, India's leading creator of digital maps, data, and location-based services. MapmyIndia will migrate its data production environment to the ArcGIS platform, allowing it to leverage Esri's high-end cartographic production tools and workflows to expand its range of products.

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The data collected by MapmyIndia is extensive, covering all of India's 600,000 towns and villages, approximately 10 million points of interest, and 1.9 million kilometers of highway and street network. MapmyIndia serves over 80 percent of all automotive navigation systems installed in India and releases data updates every four to six months.

The alliance will provide Indian application developers and end users with a high-performance, cost-effective platform for GIS and location-based services development. In addition Esri's cloud-based ArcGIS Online will help democratize GIS data access throughout India with its low-cost subscription plans.

"Working with Esri will be truly transformative for the Indian GIS and location-based services industry," says Rakesh Verma, managing director, MapmyIndia (CE Info Systems). "App developers; businesses; government organizations; and, most importantly, end users will be able to experience, interact with the combined platform of Esri technologies and MapmyIndia Maps."

"Migrating its map production to the ArcGIS platform will let MapmyIndia take advantage of Esri's rich development environment, facilitating, for example, the creation of custom server-based GIS applications or embedding GIS functionality into existing applications," said Jack Dangermond, Esri President. "This will help the company reduce map production costs and meet data publishing deadlines. In addition, MapmyIndia's data will power Esri's geocoding and network services throughout the country."

Nikhil Kumar, general manager and head of innovative solution business at NIIT GIS Limited (Esri India), said "The comprehensive datasets from MapmyIndia managed on the powerful ArcGIS platform will extend our users an interface for collaboration and sharing and a complete geospatial content management experience."

About MapmyIndia
MapmyIndia (CE Info Systems (P) Ltd.) is India's leader in premium quality digital map and data, GPS navigation and tracking devices, location apps, and enterprise GIS solutions. A New Delhi-based ISO 9001-2012 Company founded in 1992 with over 750 people, MapmyIndia pioneered digital mapping in India and, since 1995, through continuous field surveys and state-of-the-art mapping technology, has built its proprietary MapmyIndia Maps, the most comprehensive, accurate, robust, reliable, full-featured, and continuously updated navigation and GIS map dataset for all India. Visit us at www.mapmyindia.com.

About Esri
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS technology, Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at esri.com/news.

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