Among some of the Azavea projects highlighted at the ESRI Business Partner Conference: Cicero, Committee of Seventy’s Election Day Incident Mapping, ParcelExplorer, and DecisionMaps.
What better way to spend St. Patrick’s Day than sipping a cool and delicious martini on the beach in sunny California? Well … we decided to spend our time in a more productive way and attended the ESRI Business Partner Conference. A much more intimate conference than the International User Conference, the Business Partner Conference is a terrific setting for networking, seeing colleagues and old friends, checking what other companies are doing in the field and what innovative solutions are being developed, hearing about ESRI’s software developments and company’s direction, learning how, as ESRI Business Partners, we can leverage ESRI’s marketing and Business Partnership program’s benefits, and getting exclusive insider information, sales strategies, and trends about specific industries.
In the process, we were really proud to see some of our current work being highlighted on large video screens during the conference plenary and on the map wall: Cicero, our address-based legislative district boundary and elected official lookup, which is at the heart of some pretty interesting election-based projects right now; and ParcelExplorer, the web-based parcel data search and mapping system we built for the Philadelphia Department of Records. During the plenary, we were also happily surprised and pleased when the ESRI team highlighted the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Information Services (MOIS) and Azavea as an example of successful partnership between a Local Government agency and an ESRI Business Partner. This is not the first time ESRI recognized the excellent GIS work that Philadelphia has been doing. In 2006, MOIS had won ESRI’s Special Achievement in GIS for the DecisionMaps application we helped them build.
All in all, even if we didn’t end up on the beach sipping martinis, we had a really productive trip and are certainly looking forward to the ESRI User Conference in August.
