FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
February 12, 2001

ESRI Announces Latin American Seminar Series Focusing on GIS-Based Utility Applications

Redlands, California-During the months of February and March, senior ESRI utility specialists will be conducting a series of seminars throughout Latin America to discuss the unique tools provided by ArcGIS and ArcFM to the utility industry.

Jack Dangermond, ESRI president comments, "We have always been responsive to the specific needs of the utility industry. GIS can be used throughout the industry for engineering applications, trouble call analysis, outage analysis, and work management, as well as many emerging automation activities. Our new generation products, the ArcGIS family, provides valuable functionality to the utility user."

Among ESRI's business partners joining the tour are Telcordia, Miner & Miner, and Azteca, as well as local business partners in each country.

The announced schedule includes

	February 27	TELEMATICA	Lima, Perú
	March 13	ESRI de Venezuela, C.A	Caracas, Venezuela
	March 15	SIGSA	Ciudad De México., México
	March 27	AEROTERRA S.A	Buenos Aires, Argentina
	March 29	INCOM S.A.	Santiago, Chile

Information concerning local arrangements can be found by contacting the relevant country distributor on the ESRI Web site at www.esri.com/international.

For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. Headquartered in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 1,050 business partners. ESRI's goal is to provide users with comprehensive tools to help them quickly and efficiently manage and use geographic information to make a real difference in the world around them. For more information visit www.esri.com. ESRI and the ESRI globe logo are trademarks of ESRI, registered in the United States and certain other countries; registration is pending in the European Community. GIS by ESRI, ArcGIS, and ArcFM are trademarks and www.esri.com and @esri.com are service marks of ESRI. Other companies and products mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.