17 July 2008, 11:27am
17th July 2008 - Infoterra Ltd, sole distributor for ERDAS desktop software products in the UK and Ireland, is pleased to announce that Compass Informatics Ltd will be its reseller in Ireland from 1st August 2008.
Compass Informatics, based in County Dublin, provides a suite of integrated spatial & information management services focused primarily on environmental and natural resources management, location and planning applications.
"We are delighted to have Compass Informatics as part of our team and to offer customers in Ireland local sales and support, together with training," said Phil Cooper, Imaging Software Business Manager at Infoterra Ltd. "We will be holding our first geoimaging user group conference in September and look forward to welcoming many ERDAS users from the UK and Ireland."
"With this valuable product suite we will be able to offer customers a wider range of solutions - from image processing & analysis, to image compression and sharing. Solutions which are as applicable to the small company as to global enterprises," stated Gearóid Ó Riain, Managing Director at Compass Informatics Ltd. "We are currently planning information seminars and training courses which will run later this year and throughout 2009."
GeoImaging User Group Conference 2008
This residential conference will run from 29th to 30th September at St. Annes College, Oxford University. For more information visit www.infoterra.co.uk/erdas.php
GeoImaging User Group Conference 2008

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