31 July 2008, 9:44am
Boulder, CO – July 31, 2008 – ITT Visual Information Solutions (ITT VIS), a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, (NYSE: ITT), announced that it has signed distribution agreements with 23 independent companies, covering over 30 countries worldwide, for its leading image processing software product, ENVI. Under these authorized distribution agreements, distributors will make the ENVI family of image processing and analysis products available to a growing number of professionals who rely on geospatial imagery and the information it provides for a variety of remote sensing and GIS applications including planning, defense and intelligence, resource management, and research.
“We are pleased to welcome this group of highly respected partners to our global team,” said Richard Cooke, president and chief operating officer of ITT Visual Information Solutions. “Each of these distributors offers integrated geographic and geospatial solutions based on ESRI’s ArcGIS products, to a well-established customer base, and we are eager to help them meet the growing demand of GIS professionals worldwide for image processing and geospatial information solutions.”
The companies signed as ENVI distributors globally are:
* Procalculo Prosis S.A.- Colombia
* SIGSA - Mexico
* Geosystems S.R.L. - Bolivia
* Geographic Mapping Technologies, Corp. - Puerto Rico
* ESRI de Venezuela - Venezuela
* ESRI Chile – Chile and Paraguay
* ESRI France - France
* Marathon Data Systems - Greece
* Informi - Denmark
* ESRI Korea - Korea
* ESRI China (Beijing) - China
* Geodata Systems Technologies Inc.- Philippines
* ESRI South Asia – Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
* Eagle Technologies - New Zealand
* ESRI Polska - Poland
* ESRI Portugal - Portugal
* ESRI Lebanon - Lebanon
* ESRI Muscat - Oman, Bahrain, and Yemen regions
* GIMS (Pty) Ltd. - South Africa
* ALPHAGIS - Estonia
* Geosistec - Guatemala
* Telematica - Peru
* GeoInfo - Panama

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