Salesforce selects Esri as key geospatial partner

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Esri, the global leader in mapping and location intelligence, has announced that Salesforce has selected Esri as the key geospatial partner for Salesforce Maps.

Salesforce is integrating Esri’s ArcGIS Living Atlas, the foremost collection of global geographic data and basemaps. Salesforce Maps users will be able to access Esri’s ArcGIS Online, the leading geospatial cloud, giving businesses the ability to analyse and visualise massive amounts of geographic and demographic data.

Jack Dangermond

“Geo-services are becoming mainstream. Now Salesforce customers will unlock new insights and patterns in their customer data, enabling them to ‘See What Others Can’t’ through geographic visualisation, using maps that contain Esri’s dynamic Living Atlas,” said Esri Founder and President Jack Dangermond. “The Salesforce and Esri technology integration will enable organisations around the globe to combine their business data with geospatial analytics and mapping for competitive advantage.”

Salesforce Maps will bring a geographic context to the enterprise for categorising and understanding the customer and business needs. By integrating demographic, economic, and behavioural data from Esri, businesses can gain unique insight into new market opportunities.

Esri is a privately held, multibillion-dollar company that provides over 350,000 organisations of every size and industry the tools to get deeper insights from their geographic and transactional data to improve operational and business results.

In the US and globally, Esri is deployed in most local, regional and state governments. It is also used across most national governments including all of the US Federal executive departments. In the non-Government sectors, customers include the majority of the Fortune 1000 companies, most utilities, and all the leading colleges and universities. Esri users also include thousands of NGOs around the world. With this new partnership, Salesforce customers will be able to access critical geospatial intelligence and perform spatial analysis inside Salesforce using Esri technology.

GIS Solutions Ltd. was appointed by Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. (ESRI) as its sole Distributor for Sri Lanka. GIS Solutions is a group company of the Just In Time Group, a foremost systems integrator in Sri Lanka with a 23+ year history, providing ICT solutions and service support to a niche market in Sri Lanka.

GIS Solutions provides end-to-end Geo Information Systems software solutions based on the ArcGIS platform in Sri Lanka and the only GIS Software provider in Sri Lanka that fully supports its customers through a dedicated support team of technical experts who are contactable around the clock.