Autodesk, Inc. is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Autodesk Geospatial Solutions provide an open platform for creating, managing and sharing spatial data across an organization. In 2005, Autodesk released its MapGuide Open Source and FDO data access technology to the open source development community; they are now active projects within OSGeo. For more information about Autodesk Geospatial, visit http://www.autodesk.com/geospatial.

AWhere, Inc provides AWhere SIS™, a Desktop Map Mash-up solution that allows users to create maps for business intelligence visualization. AWhere's short learning curve and easy integration of 'your' data / database with outside data, (e.g., census, scientific studies, free internet shapefiles) significantly improve problem understanding and solutions. Maps can be shared with other AWhere users via a patent-pending map file (shapefile) sharing format.

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 42,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy business intelligence projects.

As the world's largest, privately-held spatial consulting firm, CH2M HILL Enterprise Spatial Solutions offers a full suite of spatial information management (SIM) services providing its clients with a single source for designing, building and managing its spatial needs. The CH2M HILL ESS team of 500 SIM and IT consultants assess requirements, design architectures, collect data, build solutions, and integrate the visualization power of spatial technology with corporate and government information systems resulting in a full suite of sustainable spatial solutions that provide leaders with situational awareness, and enable faster, better business decisions. For more, visit www.ch2m.com/ess.

deCarta is the enabling geospatial software platform that powers today’s most successful location-based service (LBS) applications. The company’s patented and non-branded technology is ideal for high-volume LBS applications for Internet, enterprise, wireless and personal navigation applications where scalability, speed and reliability are vital. As an enterprise solution, deCarta’s software platform gives you the leverage of a web service architecture to develop and deliver powerful new field service applications, or significantly augment existing GIS applications to realize increased market penetration, service and profits.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally than any other computer company, placing it No. 25 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS

DigitalGlobe is the provider of the world's highest resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products. DigitalGlobe is the only geospatial content provider to take an end-to-end approach to geospatial imagery, from acquiring proprietary high-resolution images through a leading-edge satellite and aerial network, to integrating and distributing that data through GlobeXplorer, a web-based search and retrieval system that makes it easy to find, purchase and download global imagery.

DMTI Spatial is a leading provider of location-based solutions. The company is built around the concept that virtually all information can be referenced, organized and manipulated through a single key – its location. DMTI Spatial has built a progressive series of tightly integrated geospatial data products to unlock the locational keys inherent in virtually all databases. These include the CanMap street, routing, rail, postal and points of interest data, census boundaries and topographic mapping.

Environics Analytics Group Inc. is a Toronto-based marketing services company that specializes in geodemographic segmentation, site modeling and custom analytics. The company's flagship product is a segmentation system called PRIZMCE, which helps marketers locate, understand and communicate with 66 distinct types of Canadians reflecting their lifestyles, purchase behaviors and social values. PRIZMCE is also available for use with key Canadian media, marketing and GIS databases and tools - from Environics Research, Statistics Canada, PMB, BBM Canada (RTS), NADbank, Ipsos-Reid, Cornerstone, infoCanada, ESRI Canada, TeleAtlas, Rogers Publishing, CSCA and C4SE. In the United States, Claritas Inc. headquartered in San Diego, California is a sales agent for Environics Analytics data. Environics Analytics is a member of the Environics group of companies that also includes Environics Research and Environics Communications Inc. To learn more about Environics Analytics and its services, visit its website at www.environicsanalytics.ca.

ESRI is the world leader in providing geographic information systems (GIS). Businesses use GIS for market analysis, site selection, customer profiling, distribution, delivery, vehicle tracking, modeling, and facilities management. GIS enables businesses to understand and manage geographic relationships. GIS can be implemented on a small scale for a specific project, for a multi-user department, or across an entire enterprise.

The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a FORTUNE 500 ® company that traces its history to 1889, is America's largest provider of business information. First American combines advanced analytics with its vast data resources to supply businesses and consumers with valuable information products to support the major economic events of people's lives, such as getting a job, renting an apartment, buying a car or house, securing a mortgage and opening or buying a business. The First American Family of Companies, many of which command leading market share positions in their respective industries, operate within five primary business segments, including: Title Insurance and Services, Specialty Insurance, Mortgage Information, Property Information, and Risk Mitigation and Business Solutions. With revenues of $8.5 billion in 2006, First American has approximately 2,100 offices throughout the United States and abroad.

Telogis Technology GeoBase Geospatial Software Engine. GeoBase gives you a scalable, fully featured, easy-to-use engine that delivers core geospatial functionality in a software application. It takes the complexity out of geospatial software, while providing a rich Application Program Interface (API) and support tools for taking spatial data into scalable production. GeoBase supports numerous platforms in delivering functionality to enterprise applications.

GeoDecisions has built a solid reputation in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry by providing innovative consulting services and customized solutions to an array of business clients. Using the power of maps and spatial information technology, GeoDecisions helps business professionals leverage the power of their data to save money and make better business decisions.

GeoLabour devotes itself to the prospective analysis of demography and labour market related issues, including issues of strategic geomarketing. It is based on the high level expertise developed by senior PhDs, acting as experts and consultants for international and national bodies.

Our latest tool is the DEMOGRAPHIC AUDIT and LOCATION RATING software, that builds projections up to a 20-year time horizon down to the local level and integrates an automatic mapping tool.

GfK GeoMarketing is one of the biggest providers of GeoMarketing solutions in Europe and has more than 100,000 customers and users from all branches of trade. We offer products and services pertaining to location-related issues and provide all the GeoMarketing components for your success:

• Internationally renowned expertises and reports on location and real estate research
• GfK market data such as purchasing power indices for all of Europe
• The largest collection of worldwide digital administrative and postal code maps
• RegioGraph and DISTRICT, the GeoMarketing software for business

GfK GeoMarketing is a part of the international GfK network. GfK is represented in 70 countries with over 130 subsidiaries and 7,800 employees. GfK is the world's number 4 market research institute. Detailed information about GfK GeoMarketing can be found online at: www.gfk-geomarketing.com.

geoVue (www.geovue.com) is the leading provider of dynamic location optimization software for retailers, restaurants and other real-estate based consumer channels seeking a higher return on capital investment. geoVue's state-of-the-art modeling and optimization solutions help its clients holistically plan store networks and prioritize capital investments based on predictive, multi-factor trade areas. Clients prioritize markets to enter, expand or exit; optimize store networks; and localize marketing and merchandising. geoVue's unique approach to data and model maintenance provides each client with a localized, real-time geospatial decision-making framework configured for its particular customer-centric strategy. geoVue clients "don't leave square footage on the table."

Founded in 1994 and based in Woburn, Mass., the company has more than 150 clients, including Big Lots, Dunkin' Brands, Meineke, Papa Murphy's, Pet Supermarket, REI and The Limited.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Harte-Hanks Global Address helps worldwide corporate clients manage their international address data. Global Address proprietary software processes names and addresses for 238 territories, and has geocode, mapping, proximity and routing functionalities. The company operates from the U.S. and the UK and through a worldwide network of resellers and OEM integrators. Harte-Hanks (NYSE:HHS) is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company. Visit www.globaladdress.net.

Immersive Media (IMC) is an advanced digital video imaging company. Using eleven video streams arranged according to geodesic geometry, Immersive video captures an almost complete spherical image; a high-resolution 360 degree view of surroundings that is seamlessly stitched together. IMC's immersive movies can integrate GIS coordinates and other metadata producing our GeoImmersive™ video. IMC's open platform design easily interfaces with industry standard databases providing viewers with greater visual detail for timely, fact-based decision-making.

With GeoImmersive video, environments can be completely captured, conveniently placing GIS Technologists, Real Estate Managers, and other decision-makers requiring location intelligence onsite from their desktop.

Please visit IMC @ Booth 5 and we'll change your view of the world.

www.immersivemedia.com

MapInfo is the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, integrating software, data and services to provide greater value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions for businesses and government organizations around the world. MapInfo solutions are available in multiple languages through a network of strategic partners and distribution channels in 60 countries. Headquartered in Troy, NY, www.mapinfo.com.

MapQuest offers Internet, wireless and business solutions that help people find places. MapQuest is one of the most recognized and trusted brands on the Internet and is the leading consumer Web site for maps and directions, serving more than 45 million users in February 2007, according to comScore Media Metrix. MapQuest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL LLC, is based in Denver, Colorado.

MetaCarta provides geographic intelligence solutions which bridge unstructured content and geography through a map-driven system. With its accurate and powerful geographic search and georeferencing capabilities, MetaCarta technology identifies geographic references within documents and assigns latitude and longitude coordinates to the locations. Users find relevant documents using keywords and a map.

MetaCarta users spend less time searching for information, and have more time to make critical decisions. www.metacarta.com

Microsoft Virtual Earth is a next generation mapping and location service. The platform includes exciting innovations around bird's eye, satellite and aerial imagery, 3-D and hybrid map styles, navigation and enhanced local search. The Virtual Earth platform enables you to deliver innovative solutions and breakthrough customer experiences. Take your websites and applications to the next level by creating immersive online mapping and visualization experiences. Locate. Integrate. Innovate.
For more information visit www.microsoft.com\virtualearth

Multimap is one of the world's leading providers of mapping and location-based services. With over 1,200 business customers worldwide, the company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. All services are offered multi-platform, and via a highly-functional API (Application Programming Interface).

NAVTEQ is a leading provider of digital map data for navigation systems and location-based solutions. Our NAVTEQ™ digital map data covers North America, Western Europe and select world markets. The enabling technology is used in a range of smart navigation products including hand-held products, Internet mapping and call center-based services.

Oracle's business is information – how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems.

Placebase provides Pushpin™(www.pushpin.com), an application platform for advanced mapping that offers a user experience identical to that of platforms principally aimed at consumers. Pushpin self-hosts large numbers of static map layers, displays thousands of markers rather than dozens, and dynamically renders shaded thematic maps reflecting thousands of data variables. Finally, Pushpin provides, via API, brand-name mappable data, including demographic indicators from ESRI.

In the past 12 years, Synergos Technologies has supplied many of today's most progressive market-focused companies with innovative technology and data tools to more precisely target their markets and consumers. In 2001, the company successfully expanded into population estimates with the release of STI: PopStats. This unique product was created specifically in response to retailers' demand for a more timely and accurate population estimating product. Today many leading retailers are using Synergos Technologies' products and, as a result, are achieving better market targeting results than ever before. With the growing complexity, competition, and challenges of accurately targeting new markets today, Synergos Technologies anticipates accelerated growth as more companies search for products that deliver superior consumer-targeting and decision-making power.

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RedSky helps large organizations of all types capture, manage and deliver the detailed location information necessary to provide effective 911 emergency response.

More than 60 million Americans working in or visiting facilities that do not have the same level of 911 protection that they have at home. RedSky software solutions address this issue, providing the location specific information to 911 dispatchers that is so critical for effective emergency response.

RedSky helps companies, government agencies and Voice over IP (VoIP) providers manage this life-saving location information by automating the process of keeping this data accurate and current.

Established in 1993, Safe Software is the maker of FME, a powerful spatial ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) platform that enables organizations to seamlessly extract, translate, transform, integrate and distribute spatial data in over 160 GIS, CAD, raster and database formats. FME Server bridges the gap between MIS and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) through seamless integration of location data into existing business applications. FME is used in over 116 countries by all levels of government, the utilities sector, and resource industries including mining, oil and gas, and forestry.

SSS Research Inc. is an emerging growth software research and development firm. The company was founded with the mission to improve our capability to analyze, visualize, and manipulate information. The company develops products and services utilizing Web 2.0 technology. The company has built two products embodying the technology, FUSION™ (Geospatial Information Fusion) and DECIDE™ (Intelligence Analysis).

Using GIS technology, Synthegis^®, Inc. develops customizable location solutions to visually profile your organization, from infinite perspectives. Founded in 2004, the namesake, Synthegis^® combines the word 'synthesis' with 'GIS' to best describe our approach of synthesizing data and delivering the results geographically. We believe spatial maps are a component of location intelligence, but not the whole picture. We asked how can the data behind the x-y coordinates deliver smarter visual intelligence tools?

The versatility of our software transcends job function and industry. Our solutions empower company executives to view data in context and enhance traditional presentations of market research and analysis. Our technology allows data to be superimposed on a real-time spatial map, creating a unique visual corporate profile^™ (VCP), specific to your business.

With two customizable modules, EyeShot^™ and InCompass^™ Synthegis^® enables organizations in the retail, banking, and telecommunications sectors to better navigate their business landscape. With Synthegis^®, you gain 20/20 business vision.

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Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world's most essential GIS, navigation, and location-based services. The information is the foundation for critical applications for emergency, business, fleet, and infrastructure services as well as personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications.

TerraGo Technologies' suite of MAP2PDF™ for major GIS applications such as ArcGIS and GeoMedia extends your GIS databases to the enterprise for viewing, redline, collaboration and GeoNotes creation using the FREE ubiquitous Adobe Reader. Stop by our booth (#14) and see why MAP2PDF™ GeoPDFs are becoming the standard for delivering GIS data to the masses.

Thetus delivers knowledge modeling and discovery software that keeps pace with the evolving nature of spatial and non-spatial data. Thetus Publisher, the company's flagship product, allows organizations to realize the full potential of their most valuable assets: knowledge and knowledge workers. Thetus' unique approach to information management enables predictive analysis, risk management, and ongoing development of best practices. Thetus empowers data-rich enterprises across a broad range of markets to better utilize the knowledge that drives decisions.

With more than 15 years of experience and unrivaled technical expertise, TruePosition is the largest company solely dedicated to location-based technologies and services in the world. Working with operators on a global basis, we provide technology and applications, successfully deploying end-to-end solutions that deliver high quality of service and exceptional customer experiences. TruePosition is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation.

ZOOM LBS delivers Location Based Services (LBS) to government agencies, private enterprises and the general public. ZOOM has developed a business model that combines WiFi and GIS technology with data collection applications to provide travelers, truckers, business people and RVers with real time information on the highway via wireless hotspots at rest areas. Clients include state DOTs, highway sign advertisers, call centers and cities and counties. Related technologies developed by ZOOM partner companies include Automated Vehicle Location (AVL), infrastructure management and help desk software, mobile mapping using stereo imaging and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).

Ventana Research is the leading Performance Management research and advisory services firm. By providing expert insight and detailed guidance, Ventana Research helps clients operate their companies more efficiently and effectively. These business improvements are delivered through a top-down approach that connects people, process, information and technology. What makes Ventana Research different from other analyst firms is a focus on Performance Management for finance, operations and IT. This focus, plus research as a foundation and reach into a community of over two million corporate executives through extensive media partnerships, allows Ventana Research to deliver a high-value, low-risk method for achieving optimal business performance. To learn how Ventana Research Performance Management workshops, assessments and advisory services can impact your bottom line, visit www.ventanaresearch.com.

Wireless Workforce Online is the premier online publication for professionals sourcing information for projects needing mobile computing; field service automation; wireless notebooks; wireless tablets; or routing, dispatch, and delivery technologies.
http://www.wirelessworkforceonline.com/content/homepage/

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.

The OGC^® is an international industry consortium of more than 335 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS^® Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org.