Innovation Centre gets a plug

The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre's Geographic Information System (GIS) technology is featured in the current issue of a national publication, the centre announced today.

The article appears in ArcNorth News, a quarterly magazine published by ESRI Canada, a company that distributes GIS software products including ArcGIS desktop (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView); ArcGIS servers (ArcIMS and ArcSDE), ArcView GIS, ArcPad, MapObjects and ArcLogistics Route.

The 7,000-circulation periodical tells the stories of Canadian GIS professionals who use ESRI products and services.

It invites organizations to write their own articles about their accomplishments with GIS.

The magazine's guidelines for publication call for articles of 750-1000 words "written in the third person (he, she, they, it) from the client perspective."

Submitters are encouraged to make sure their articles have been approved by communications or marketing departments, and to include testimonials.

The ArcNorth article describes how the Regional Municipality of Halton updated its water and sewer GIS network models, using a customized utilities solution developed by the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre.

The following news release was issued by the Innovation Centre this afternoon:

***************************************************************** Local organization praised in national press

National GIS Magazine praises Innovation Centre GIS application

SAULT STE. MARIE, ON - March 27th 2003 - A local organization was praised for the quality of its work in the current edition of a national magazine.

The current edition of ArcNorth News, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2003 has run a 2-page article on the work that Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre and its partners put into a project for the Regional Municipality of Halton.

In reference to the work produced, the Project Manager for the Regional Municipality of Halton, Mr. Eric Boere is quoted as saying "The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre models allow local governments and utilities to see the benefits of GIS right at the beginning of a project including the ability to maintain up-to-date data, maintain data accuracy, control data security and integrity, and cooperate with other strategic corporate solutions"

Mr. David Williamson, Business Manager of the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre responded to this article with the following comments "This project proves the value of the product and the expertise resident in the team that developed it.

"It also proves the value of partnerships such those formed with EDS Canada and JD Barnes that enable us to move the product out to market, which in turn helps us to position Sault Ste. Marie as a hub for GIS in Ontario.

"The Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre is committed to continuing the evolution of those partnerships as we pursue the development of the Small Municipal GIS product, which is tailored to the Province of Ontario's new GeoSmart initiative."

The article is reproduced in full on the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre website (http://www.ssmic.com) with permission of ESRI Canada.