Information Driven
Oracle's business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of your business-database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. With Oracle, you get information that helps you measure results, improve business processes, and communicate a single truth to your constituents.

Oracle's next-generation enterprise computing platform—Fusion—is being designed to enable incremental adoption of a powerful, flexible, service-oriented IT infrastructure without the disruption associated with a wholesale platform upgrade. This portfolio is built on powerful Fusion design principles, standardizing the priorities and practices of your enterprise computing strateg, saving you significant time and money.

Oracle's leadership, vision, and commitment to customers have made it the world's largest enterprise software company, providing software and services to enterprises around the globe.

For more information: www.oracle.com

Autodesk helps customers experience their ideas before they are real with innovative 2D and 3D mapping tools that are redefining the integration of design and spatial data, providing extended teams with the most up-to-date, accurate spatial information across the entire organisation, improving efficiency, response time and customer satisfaction.

Autodesk has a global community of over six million users. One-hundred percent of Fortune 100 companies and ninety-eight percent of Fortune 500 companies are our customers, as well as numerous small and mid-sized companies.

For more information: www.autodesk.com

Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world's most essential geographic, navigation and location-based services (LBS). The information is the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications that help users find the people, places, products and services they need, wherever they are. The company also works with business partners who trust its digital map data to deliver critical applications for emergency, business, fleet, and infrastructure services. Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers digital map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company today has approximately 2,500 full-time staff and contract cartographers in 24 countries.

For more information: www.teleatlas.com

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the leading independent provider of enterprise data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, migrate and consolidate enterprise data across systems, processes and people to reduce complexity, ensure consistency and empower the business. More than 2,950 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs.

For more information: www.informatica.com

eSpatial is a global software and consultancy company specialising in Corporate Web GIS. eSpatial leverages over a decade of Oracle Spatial experience to deliver sophisticated and powerful web applications. iSMART(r), our award winning software suite, is the most comprehensive solution to complement Oracle's Spatial technology platform and is fast becoming the first choice for Oracle Spatial. We have a global partner and customer-base that is growing rapidly. This is testament to our commitment to flexibility and responsiveness in ensuring faster time to market for enterprise grade system deployment.

For further information contact: info@espatial.com www.espatial.com

For almost 40 years, Intergraph has delivered innovative spatial technology to government, commercial and military organisations around the world. Our open, data-centric technologies, combined with industry insight and workflows, help our customers create, manage and manipulate vast quantities of spatial data into clear, actionable forms. We help: Emergency services and critical infrastructure operators protect the lives of nearly 500 million people; Support the majority of European rail operators from London's Underground to Italian Rail; Mapping agencies create data and manage product flowlines from Ordnance Survey to Mil Survey, and; Document, plan and operate utility networks for Anglian Water to Virgin Media.

For more information: www.intergraph.co.uk

In over fourteen years of operation, Infotech Enterprises Europe has acquired significant domain expertise related to the sectors it serves and provides GIS and IT related services to several of the most recognisable names in Government, Utilities, Telecommunications and Transportation.

Infotech's services range from data management and software development to implementation, system integration and consultancy services. Our offshore ‘centres of excellence’ (and resource of some 2’200 specialists with over 2 million person hours of experience) together with our local on-shore project teams, have helped customers to access dedicated infrastructure and resources on a long-term basis at predictable costs.

We also have years of multi-platform experience that includes ESRI, MapInfo, GE Smallworld, Microstation, Intergraph, Cadcorp, Oracle, Microsoft and Java and, in addition, to our global relationships we have with the above organisations, we also have similar working relationships with the Ordnance Survey and TeleAtlas.

Infotech’s commitment to quality is manifest in our ISO 9001/2000, ISO 27001/BS 7799 and SEI CMM Level 5 accreditations.

For more information: www.infotech-europe.com/

Known the world over as the source for exceptional geospatial software solutions, Blue Marble Geographics is a leading developer and provider of reliable, accurate, and powerful data manipulation and conversion solutions for both the desktop user and software developer.

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing.

1Spatial has been implementing solutions based on HP technology for several years; some notable large projects include the Department of Emergency Services in Queensland, Australia, and the Property Registration Authority in Ireland. Some of these solutions have included a port to HP’s integrity platform.

For more information: www.hp.com

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS’ Engineering and Industrial Services offerings comprise New Product Development (NPD), Shop floor services and Geo-spatial solutions. TCS’ Geo-spatial solutions provide state of the art geospatial offerings to customers using the synergy of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with information technology. TCS’ GIS solutions include Consulting, Design Development & Implementation, Spatial Data Services, Operations and Maintenance Support and GIS Integration with Business Systems.
A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 108, 000 of the world's best trained engineers and IT consultants in 47 countries. The Company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March, 2007. For more information visit: www.tcs.com

Safe Software powers the flow of spatial data with its software platform, FME. The recognized standard in spatial ETL (extract, transform and load), FME is the only complete solution for data conversion. It delivers the most extensive format support for data translation and integration, and provides unlimited flexibility in data model transformation and distribution.

FME is used by thousands of customers worldwide in a variety of industries including government, utilities, and petroleum. Its powerful data access technology also makes FME the choice of leading GIS, CAD, and database vendors for integration into their own solutions. Designed for true data interoperability, FME unleashes spatial data so people can use it where, when, and how they want to.

For more information: www.safe.com

Vector1 Media is an integrated media company serving the international marketplace. We are dedicated to providing information that supports economical technologies and processes that promote sustainable environments. Building upon a foundation of design principles and infrastructure disciplines, and tempered with the understanding of processes, Vector1 Media pursues visualization, modeling, spatial analysis, simulation and sensor technologies for holistic management planning and decision making.

GEO:connexion is the leading Geospatial Technology publication for the British Isles, continental Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  14,000 copies distributed monthly, published 10 issues a year.  GEO:connexionUK is published quarterly and mailed out to 8,000 UK circulation.

For more information: www.geoconnexion.com

GeoInformatics provides coverage, analysis and commentary with respect to the international surveying, mapping and GIS industry. Recognizing the integrated nature of the geospatial information industry, GeoInformatics presents thought provoking and useful information.

GeoInformatics provides valuable and insightful information to its readers, so that they remain on the cutting edge of the geospatial industry, thereby enabling them to learn, create and develop new opportunities for society. GeoInformatics is published eight times a year. The circulation exceeds 9.000 copies per issue worldwide.

For more information: services@geoinformatics.com
Web: www.geoinformatics.com

PV Publications is a leading UK publisher of journals and magazines serving the geospatial sector. Our publications GIS Professional, Geomatics World and Engineering Surveying Showcase are widely read amongst professionals within the geospatial community. PVP has over 30 years experience of working with institutions and organisations associated with surveying, geomatics and GIS. We are a sponsor member of FIG, the international surveying organisation. We are an independent company ready to work closely with all players to help achieve mutual aims and grow the geospatial business.

For more information: www.pvpubs.com/magazines.asp?mag=3

Directions Media is the leading source of information, news and commentary in the fields of geospatial and location-based technologies. We keep our readers informed with news and technology issues quickly and thoroughly via a variety of offerings. We maintain the industry's most knowledgeable editorial and management team each member of which has substantial experience as a practitioner of geospatial technology.

This allows Directions Media to not only report on current news and applications, but also provide commentary and advice on industry trends. Our readers gain an"inside edge" in their careers by reading our publications and attending our events. And we are driven to serve our advertisers by bringing them broad exposure through our worldwide reach.

Directions Magazine focuses on the FOUNDATION TECHNOLOGIES of geospatial information (e.g. geographic information systems software, GPS, cartography, geographical data, and associated services) that includes feature articles, editorial, applications, industry news, commentary and product news, product
reviews and resources for the geospatial professional.

For more information: www.directionsmag.com