As the leader in GIS technology, ESRI offers innovative solutions that will help you create, visualize, analyze, and present information better and more clearly. ESRI software is built on standard and open information technology and has been designed to operate with all-relational database management systems. ESRI's software is developed with open (nonproprietary) development tools, and our software is built on new, modern, object-component software standards (COM) that are easily customized and embedded for a wide range of application needs. ESRI's comprehensive product line ranges from desktop GIS to GIS for the enterprise--and our Internet software revolutionizes the way users can access and interact with Internet mapping and GIS data at the desktop, thereby making the promise of distributed GIS a reality that is easy to accomplish.

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