Arkansas Department of Information Systems - The Vision of D I S mirrors that of the State Information Technology Plan, which is to eliminate the effects of distance, geography and time in the delivery of government services; to empower state officials and citizens to make good decisions by providing them with high quality information; and to improve efficiency, quality and accessibility of government and educational services.

 

Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department - The mission of AHTD is to provide a safe, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sound intermodal transportation system for the user.

 

Arkansas State Land Information Board - The State Land Information Board was created in 1997 by Arkansas Act 914. Governor Mike Huckabee appointed twelve initial board members who first met in 1998. Each member serves for a term of four years. There are three members representing each of these major interest groups: State, City/County/Local Government, Private Sector, &Higher Education. The Board supports economic development and an improved quality of life for Arkansas citizens by providing basic spatial data infrastructure, by coordinating geographic information activities, and by creating short- and long-term strategies that will result in improved decision making, effective asset management, and reduced costs.

 

ESRI - The company's focus is on producing excellent software and delivering exceptional service to users. As Jack Dangermond explains, "We at ESRI believe that better information makes for better decisions. Our reputation is built on contributing our technical knowledge, our special people, and valuable experience to the collection, analysis, and communication of geographic information."

 

Federal Geographic Data Committee - The Federal Geographic Data Committee coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies, standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic data. The 17 federal agencies that make up the FGDC are developing the NSDI in cooperation with organizations from state, local and tribal governments, the academic community, and the private sector.

 

Intergraph - Intergraph Corporation is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computer graphics systems. Intergraph's business is primarily in two areas: hardware (workstations and servers) and technical software applications requiring state-of-the-art interactive computer graphics. The company has five primary business units addressing the hardware, software, federal, electronics, and public safety marketplaces. Intergraph is a billion-dollar, Fortune 1000 supplier of hardware, software, and services with sales and support offices in 65 countries.

 

MapInfo - MapInfo allows you to take advantage of location information. Our solutions combine your corporate data sources with external data such as demographics, lifestyle and buying behavior. We provide analysis applications and dynamic information query and delivery systems for everyone in your organization to help you find, serve and grow customers.

 

Nortel Networks - Nortel Networks is a global leader in telephony, data, wireless and wireline solutions for the Internet. Today, Nortel Networks is creating a high-performance Internet that is more reliable and faster than ever before. It is redefining the economics and quality of networking and the Internet through Unified Networks that promise a new era of collaboration, communications and commerce.

 

Oracle - Oracle is the world's second largest software company and the leading supplier of software for enterprise information management. With annual revenues exceeding $8.0 billion, the company offers its database, tools and applications products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world.

 

Open GIS - The Open Gis Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1994 to address the lack of interoperability among systems that process georeferenced data, and between these systems and mainstream computing systems. OGC's mission is to give the world's information systems a new connection to physical reality by making georeferenced data behave like just another standard data type in systems of all kinds.

 

PCI - PCI has been developing industry leading geospatial software since 1982 and has continuously been a tireless supporter for the advanced study of remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, GIS, cartography, and all earth sciences in academic institutions around the world.

 

Safe Software - Safe Software was incorporated in 1993 and is located in Surrey, B.C., just outside of Vancouver. Since incorporation, Safe Software has successfully executed a variety of projects pertaining to the translation, processing, modeling, and distribution of spatial data. Safe Software has worked with the ESRI Spatial Database Engine (SDE) since before it was an ESRI product, and has experience with many other spatial DBMS systems.

 

Sun - Sun Microsystems, Inc. has long been synonymous with leading edge technology. Now, after 18 years of telling the world "The Network is the Computer," Sun is poised to become the leader in the emerging network-driven economy. Forward thinking organizations are looking to Sun to lead them into the dot com future. And we take our leadership commitment seriously.