Earth to business: More organizations outside the traditional technological geospatial world are looking to use geospatial information to drive business decisions and processes within their organization. ERDAS is defining the systems that will put the information around our changing earth to work in business. Earth to business customers and their applications include:

• Urban planners: monitoring green space
• Real estate companies: finding the nearest schools to a house
• Environmental consulting firms: evaluating the effects of residential development on a river channel
• Civil engineering companies: viewing a ?before and after? highway project
• Oil/gas companies: monitoring the effects of ice sheet movements on pipelines
• Insurance companies: assessing flooding on a residential neighborhood
• Forestry companies: determining the financial potential of a forest stand
• Land developers: calculating the value of a parcel of land
• Tax assessors: estimating the effects of zoning changes on storm water infrastructure
• E911: ascertaining an appropriate place to land a helicopter
• Command control: understanding the terrain in an area

Expertise: ERDAS has deep industry expertise in imagery and in understanding geospatial data. We are the standards experts, experts in web enablement and in creating geospatial business systems. ERDAS has the geospatial industry knowledge, solutions and people to help your business identify ways to reduce costs and create new revenue-generating opportunities.

Reputation: ERDAS' proven expertise naturally lends itself to a strong brand/reputation. Put simply, organizations trust ERDAS. ERDAS has a solid history of delivering reliable technology that improves your company's reputation and brand in the marketplace. ERDAS has also been around for decades and has a history of financial stability and product quality.

Service and support: Knowing that everyone is not a geospatial person, ERDAS takes responsibility for solving technical problems, providing friendly, professional, personalized service that resolves issues quickly. In addition, ERDAS helps an organization quickly get up-to-speed and productive on its solutions. Already known for excellent customer service with its desktop applications, ERDAS now extends its customer service model to the enterprise.

Customers: ERDAS works in the government and private sectors, extending beyond GIS departments to include departments throughout the enterprise. ERDAS solutions appeal to a broad range of users, taking into account people who have different levels of geospatial information experience.

Innovative: ERDAS solutions are modern, relevant and innovative, helping customers get a greater share of the business available. Constantly striving to deliver state-of-the-art solutions, organizations use ERDAS to stay ahead of the pack by being efficient and productive.

Backed by Hexagon: ERDAS is a part of a $2+ billion organization that brings financial stability, global reach, expertise and more. Organizations can trust that ERDAS will be around for the long term.