Welcome to EGUG 2006 From ESRI

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Welcome to EGUG 2006 From ESRI Bill Meehan, Director Utility Solutions ESRI

Thanks from ESRI • Your host – Public Service of

New Mexico • Joel Ivy – Vice President, Technical Services,

PNM • Fernando Martinez – Director of New Mexico’s Energy Conservation and Management Division • Business partners

Thanks From ESRI to Your EGUG Officers

• Nargis Ladha • Larry Wilke • Gathen Garcia • Ted Kircher

…they make everything work!

And you for making this all happen!

Your Industry is Changing Rapidly And Increasingly Challenged

. . . Technology plays a major role in transforming the Electric and Gas industry

GIS Technology Is Advancing Using the Web as a Platform Using NEW

Explorer

NEW

Web Map

Desktop Engine

Web Services

NEW

Authoring

Mobile

ArcGIS Server

ArcIMS

ArcSDE

Serving

Any DBMS

…Authoring, Serving and Using Geographic Knowledge

Google and Microsoft Are Already Changing Things

Introducing a New Way of Interacting with Geographic Information on the Web

• Dynamic & Continuous Content • Fast & Natural Interaction • Web Based Applications • Accessible . . . Opening the World’s Eyes To a Whole New Way of Seeing

What you will see at EGUG What’s new at 9.2 • New desktop usability • Better data • • •

management Server based GIS Mobile solutions Web services

Servers

Desktop

Web Services Laptop

Scalable Networked Hardware

PDA Phone

. . . improving our ability to share and distribute

ESRI Values EGUG Your feedback drives our product • Fixes and service improvements • New functions and features • Application of the technology • Need to hear: – Your business solutions – Work processes

…You help us make this the best technology

GIS is a Breakthrough Technology! Gets the most out of your assets

…to meet the challenges of the 21st century

Spatial Technologies Breakthrough technology • Not just about maps or • • •

drawings It’s about gaining new knowledge Uses spatial/location to discover solutions Discoveries visualized in the form of maps “where are there locations in my infrastructure where a single event could bring the system down?”

Consider the Challenge As You Network with Peers, Partners and ESRI • New opportunities to support – Sustainable energy – Energy management • Leadership role in your

communities – Data sharing – Collaboration – GIS education …Collaboration is the key to deploying new technologies

More Challenges Talk to each other • Continue leadership

within your companies • Create the vision • GIS serves the entire enterprise – Customer service – Environmental – Real estate – Much more… …Create the vision, help us put the vision to work for you