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WASHINGTON D.C., May 20, 2003 - Advanced DataTools Corporation,
a woman-owned small business and leading provider of web-enabled
database and data warehouse solutions, announced today its partnership
with ESRI, an internationally renowned provider of GIS and Mapping
Software. This partnership will enable Advanced DataTools to add
another dimension to their GPRA Solutions, a geographical display
of what used to be simply text and numbers data.
“I’m really excited about our ESRI partnership,”
says Lester Knutsen, President and Principal Consultant for Advanced
DataTools. “This allows us to integrate financial
and performance data from our GPRA systems and display them on a
map.” Knutsen, a prominent member of the IBM Informix community,
began using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in his database
solutions in 2002, and hopes to roll out the enhanced
service to their entire line of government and commercial customers.
Advanced DataTools hopes to use the new partnership with ESRI
to broaden the possibilities of data reporting in their integrated
financial and performance reporting system, Apollo. Apollo can enable
government agencies to comply with the GPRA and the Budget and Performance
Initiative of the President’s Management Agenda, and save
millions of dollars and thousands of staff hours. Agencies can choose
to implement a GIS component, which uses maps to enable users to
drill into the smallest geographic component stored in the system
(county, congressional district, street, etc.). This would enable
decision makers to very rapidly identify and focus on locations
with costs well inside or outside planned costs, and can drill into
the detail to view a wide range of data (i.e. census, payroll, fees,
permits, crops, grants). A recent demo of the solution for
__ took their disaster payment records and plotted them on a map,
bringing a whole new perspective to analyzing their disaster programs.
In another demo of the solution, Advanced DataTools put an agency’s
expenditures and revenues in a GIS display. Government GIS Spatialists
commented afterwards that they’d never received as much upper
management attention for GIS before they put dollars on a map.
In addition to Apollo, Advanced DataTools offers a complete lineup
of database consulting solutions that can be enhanced with GIS,
thanks to the ESRI partnership. Advanced DataTools services include
team-driven database design, Brio, Informix, and QIQ consulting,
and both public and customized training. Advanced DataTools' skill
and experience in database design enables government agencies to
leverage funds and resources and better track expenditures and performance
on a daily basis, rather than waiting 3 to 6 months for outdated
reports. Advanced DataTools builds integrated and web-enabled financial
and performance reporting data warehouse solutions, as well as front-end
applications like the GIS mapping of data, and provides extensive
training to support their products of choice.
Advanced DataTools's services are currently employed by various
government agencies including the US Forest Service, the USDA Farm
Service Agency and Rural Development, the Department of Interior
Bureau of Land Management, and the Social Security Administration.
ESRI was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in
1969 as a privately held consulting firm that specialized in land
use analysis projects. ESRI evolved from a small consulting firm
to the largest research and development organization dedicated to
GIS by focusing on its user community. The relationship between
ESRI and its users is synergistic. Over the years a unique culture
has evolved, a culture that is user-focused and which emphasizes
a team-based approach.
Today, ESRI GIS products are poised for ever-greater growth. Innovations
in computer technology allow sophisticated GIS operations to be
performed in the field on a personal digital assistant (PDA), on
desktops, and throughout the enterprise. Faster and cheaper computers,
network processing, electronic data publishing, and easier-to-use
tools are fueling rapid growth in the desktop arena. Private businesses
are adopting GIS technology as a decision support tool. And with
the introduction of live mapping applications to the Web, anyone
with a computer has access to the benefits of GIS technology.
Linda Knutsen
Chairman and CEO
703-256-0267 x101
linda@advancedatatools.com
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