SPATIALinfo and Autodesk Join Forces for GITA Utility Conference
(Sydney, Australia, 1st September, 1998) - SPATIALinfo Pty Limited, one of Australia's leading developers of spatial information software products, and Autodesk Australia, the world's leading supplier of PC design software, today announced that they would jointly demonstrate the integration of SPATIALinfo's core SPATIALnet product with Autodesk's GIS products at the GITA ‘Customer Focused Utilities' Conference in Melbourne, from 9-10 September 1998.
SPATIALnet is a complete AM/FM/GIS system which captures, edits and displays Utility Outside Plant Networks, modeled in a spatially-enabled RDBMS to provide enterprise-wide spatial data access. SPATIALnet uses AutoCAD Map™ as its graphics editing engine, and interfaces with Autodesk World™ for GIS-style query and analysis, as well as Autodesk MapGuide™ for low-cost Web publishing.
Peter Mitchell, SPATIALinfo's Commercial Director, said, "SPATIALnet is our flagship network modelling and AM/FM product and it has outstanding potential for world sales with the right partners. We made a fundamental decision that Autodesk's market-leading GIS products, AutoCAD Map, Autodesk World and Autodesk MapGuide, were the products we should be integrating with, and we have invested wisely in that strategic objective."
Gil Norrie, GIS Channel and Sales Manager for Autodesk Australia, said, "This pre-release demonstration of SPATIALnet with Autodesk's GIS products is a clear sign of the strengthening technology and business relationship between SPATIALinfo and Autodesk Australia. Through their spatial enterprise information solutions they have achieved a level of integration that is attracting close attention at the highest levels of Autodesk world-wide".
The Technical Director of SPATIALinfo, Tony Cotter, said. "The level of support and interest from Autodesk has been very encouraging, and SPATIALinfo now has one of the largest Autodesk development teams in Australia, if not the world. The GITA ‘Customer Focused Utilities' Conference is a perfect opportunity for SPATIALinfo and Autodesk to show how well SPATIALnet meets the needs of utility businesses that want to spatially-enable their enterprises using open, industry-standard technology approaches to the modelling and management of network assets."
"One of SPATIALinfo's fundamental beliefs is that customers need to leverage their existing IT investments in software infrastructure and working solutions, and hence will increasingly demand broader open-systems enterprise information solutions which are spatially enabled rather than buying islands of technology. By integrating its own technologies with Autodesk's technologies, SPATIALinfo is uniquely positioned to help organisations make that transition," said SPATIALinfo's Tony Cotter.
About SPATIALinfo
SPATIALinfo is an Australian software company with global partners and a long history of providing spatial products and technologies, and consulting, applications development, data migration, and systems integration services into AM/FM, GIS, and Enterprise Information Systems markets world-wide.
SPATIALinfo has integrated the world's best-selling CAD and GIS software from Autodesk Inc., and the world's most prolific RDBMS software with its own leading spatial information products, enabling Customer Focused Utilities to ‘Visualise New Horizons' for their business. SPATIALinfo's core products include:
SPATIALnet
A complete AM/FM/GIS system that captures, edits and displays Utility Outside Plant Networks, modeled in a spatially-enabled RDBMS to provide enterprise-wide spatial data access. SPATIALnet uses AutoCAD Map as its graphics editing engine, and interfaces with Autodesk World for GIS-style query and analysis, as well as Autodesk MapGuide for low-cost Web publishing
SDM
The Spatial Data Manager - a product family incorporating the world's most fully-featured enterprise spatial data engine for Oracle™ and Microsoft SQL Server™, supporting topology in the database
About Autodesk Inc.
Autodesk is the world's leading supplier of PC design software. The company's 2D and 3D products are used in many industries, including film and video production, architectural and mechanical design, mapping, and managing spatial data in utility companies. Its market-leading GIS products are AutoCAD Map, Autodesk World and Autodesk MapGuide. Autodesk is a founding member of the Open GIS Consortium. The fourth largest PC software company in the world, Autodesk has over three million customers in more than 150 countries. For more information, please visit the Australian web page at www.autodesk.com.au.
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