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May 1, 2008

GeoComm named ESRI Business Partner of the Year 2008

St. Cloud, MN - GeoComm was awarded the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Business Partner of the Year award for 2008 from the Minneapolis Region.

GeoComm is one of only 10 business partners to win the award.  The award winners are recommended by one of ESRI's 10 United States regional offices.  The regional office out of Minneapolis nominated us based upon a number of criteria and forwarded their recommendation onto ESRI's headquarters. 

"GeoComm has been developing its GeoLynx suite of public safety 9-1-1 solutions for more than 12 years by integrating GIS and wireless communications. GeoComm is receiving this award for its commitment to the ESRI platform and providing first-class public safety applications and consulting services. The company was one of the earliest adopters of the ArcObjects 9.2 platform and ArcGIS Engine for its applications. A few years ago, GeoComm made the strategic business decision to select ESRI as its GIS technology provider of choice. Today, it is using the ESRI platform to develop desktop, server, and mobile solutions, and continues to expand its use of ESRI technology to support its clients in new and exciting ways," Brinton Bromley, Business Partner Development Manager.

"GeoComm is committed to bringing the most advanced technologies to the public safety industry.  We view our relationship with ESRI as essential to our continued success as a public safety software, GIS, and consulting company," Tom Grones, GeoComm President/CEO.

The ESRI Business Partner of the year is selected based on the following criteria.

• Strong sales in 2007
• Innovative products brought to market
• ESRI products brought to a new market because of the partner's specialized and expert knowledge
• Successful teaming with ESRI on a project
• Distinct from other business partners in your region

About ESRI:  For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. ESRI software is used in all 200 of the largest cities in the United States and in more than 60 percent of counties and municipalities nationwide. Headquartered in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 1,600 business partners. ESRI's goal is to develop comprehensive tools that enable users to efficiently manage, use, and serve geographic information to make a difference in the world around them. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. ESRI can be found on the Web at http://www.esri.com/. ESRI, the ESRI globe logo, GIS by ESRI, ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcMap, MapObjects, www.esri.com, and @esri.com are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of ESRI in the United States, the European Community, or certain other jurisdictions. Other companies and products mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.

About GeoComm:  GeoComm is an integrated GIS and public safety consulting firm that creates systems for 9-1-1. These systems are comprised of three core elements: accurate GIS and 9-1-1 data development and management, public safety centric GIS software, and comprehensive consulting services ranging from wireless Phase I and II planning to two-way radio and networking to CPE, RFP and PSAP consolidation studies. Over the past 12 years, GeoComm has successfully deployed thousands of licenses of public safety GIS software at different sites throughout 37 states.

GeoComm's GeoLynx Family of Products are fast and intuitive software applications that reduce response times, improve data accuracy and quality, and provide sophisticated GIS based decision support and command and control for emergency response.  The GeoLynx Family of Products includes AVL for vehicle tracking, ENS for emergency notification, Stats for real time and historical incident spatial analysis and hotspot mapping, EOC for Web connected emergency operations management, and DMS for E9-1-1 GIS data management for addressing, MSAG and Geofiles within ESRI ArcView 9.x.