Esri has been helping clients around the world harness the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software has been used for four decades in more than 300,000 organisations worldwide. Many organisations including national hydrographic organisations, commercial data and chart producers, oceanographic, and naval commands leverage this database-centric approach to production, maintenance, and dissemination of authoritative data through a modern services oriented architecture (SOA).

With Esri's ArcGIS system of software, Nautical Organisations can

• Manage high-volume database driven data production for navigational products;
• Store large, exponentially growingbathymetric high density data sets;

•  Bring real-time temporal data, tasking, and geofencing analysis capabilities into the organisation enterprise;
•  Avoid duplicating work at the national level,
• disseminate information via a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure.

ArcGIS helps nautical organisations employ multi-user geodatabases and automated workflows. Cost savings are realised through 'one-touch' editing and a reduced learning curve for new staff. Creating more products and managing more data is achievable in an environment where everyone is being encouraged to do more with less. This information can be shared across an organisation and national boundaries to help with the increasing demand to support broader issues such as global disasters and better management of natural resources.

Contact: Esri, Steve Snow, Esri MAPS Industry Specialist, e-mail ssnow@esri.com, www.esri.com/nautical, Twitter @Steve_Snow_