Cadcorp and Steria announce new Cadcorp Viewer

31 May 2007, 12:32pm

Cadcorp and Steria announce new Cadcorp Viewer for SteriaSTORM for police command and control applications

New interface provides SteriaSTORM police users with direct, interactive access to Cadcorp SIS digital mapping and GIS facilities.

Stevenage, UK. 31 May, 2007. - Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp and a leading European end-to-end IT services provider, Steria Limited, have announced the availability of the STORM Cadcorp Viewer.

The Cadcorp Viewer for SteriaSTORM has been developed using the Cadcorp SIS ActiveX Control; part of the Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System Software Developer Kit (SDK). The viewer allows Steria to provide its police command and control customers with a version of the SteriaSTORM call handling and deployment system that is integrated with Cadcorp SIS digital mapping/GIS software.

SteriaSTORM enables police officers attending an incident to access a broad range of information relating to the event, to assemble information from a variety of sources to manage incident recording and reporting, to perform operational resource management and monitoring, and to escalate incidents in real-time. The new Cadcorp Viewer adds a fully integrated, interactive digital map viewing capability and interfaces to both the 32-bit and Multi-Agency versions of STORM.

Designed to work with the Cadcorp SIS family of desktop and web-based GIS products, the Cadcorp Viewer for SteriaSTORM can display a wide variety of both raster and vector data as layers, supports scale dependent display, and can cater for both small, locally-held maps and large server-based installations. It provides a comprehensive range of digital mapping and GIS functionality, including display manipulation, sketching, measuring and information access and display, route finding and isochrone analysis.

Brian Hall, business development manager, Steria Limited, said, “Steria and Cadcorp already have a number of mutual police force customers. The new Cadcorp Viewer for SteriaSTORM is therefore an important development that will enable us to offer existing and potential SteriaSTORM users the ability to integrate Cadcorp SIS into their command and control systems.”

“Several police forces in the UK have made the decision to base their GIS-based operational and business applications on Cadcorp SIS,” said Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp. “This new development with Steria will enable them to also take advantage of the latest in call handling and resource deployment technology with the minimum of disruption.”

Availability
The Cadcorp Viewer for SteriaSTORM is available immediately. (For more information please contact Brian Hall, Business Development Manager, Steria Limited, tel: +44 (0) 1442 884761, e-mail: brian.hall@steria.co.uk.)

About Cadcorp SIS
The Cadcorp SIS product suite is an integrated and complete family of desktop, web, developer and mobile GIS products. With a common GIS engine at the core, all Cadcorp SIS products work in the same way, sharing functionality and benefiting from a number of advanced and in some cases unique capabilities, including: the ability to read and/or write over 150 data formats ‘out-of-the-box’ without translation; no need for ‘middleware’ to access databases and contain Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. ® (OGC®) compliant interfaces throughout.

About Steria
Extensive expertise in its three core businesses of consulting, systems integration and managed services has made Steria a leading end-to-end IT services provider for companies and public authorities throughout Europe.

With revenue of €1.3 billion in 2006 and over 10,000 employees, Steria is one of the top ten European IT services companies.

Understanding the challenges facing its customers enables Steria to design business-specific solutions with high added value in all of its fields of expertise – the public sector, and healthcare, banking and insurance, telecommunications and utilities/transport/manufacturing – as well as innovative technological solutions.

Based on over 35 years’ experience in managing large-scale projects, an exceptional ability to respond and an industrial approach to business, Steria has developed a result-based culture with a commitment to service quality and customer satisfaction.

Steria’s employees, who hold 24% of the Group’s capital, draw on its core values of simplicity, creativity, independence, respect and openness to transform the latest and most advanced information technologies into added-value services, enabling Steria to help its customers make progress.

Steria is listed on Euronext Paris, Eurolist (Compartment B). Further information is at: www.steria.com.

About Cadcorp
Established in 1991, Cadcorp is a leading UK developer of digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software. With offices in the UK and the USA, Cadcorp's distribution and value-added reseller (VAR) network stretches worldwide. The company also plays a pivotal technical role in the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC®).

The Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System product family is fully integrated digital mapping and GIS software that uses OGC certified compliant interfaces. Cadcorp technical director Martin Daly is an OGC Gardels Medal holder for his contribution to the OGC, and a member of the OGC Architecture Board. Cadcorp is an ISO9001:2000 certified company, an Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner and holds a UK government Catalist S-CAT agreement for category 15, GIS Software. Cadcorp SIS applications exist in local government, central government, emergency services, insurance, oil & natural gas, mapping and surveying, commerce, utilities and many other markets. (For more information please visit: cadcorp.com).


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Editors:
For further information on Cadcorp contact:
Richard Rollins, Tel: 01438 747996, e-mail: richard.rollins@cadcorp.com or
Neil McLeod, Tel: 01666 504293, e-mail: neilmcleod@btopenworld.com.
For further information on Steria contact:
Carly Pearson, Tel: 0207 386 1417, e-mail: carly.pearson@fireflycomms.com

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