ESRI in Geospatial Imagery Analytics Software

ESRI deals with the development of GIS and mapping software for organizations in commercial, government, natural resources, and utility industries. Esri uses partnerships and agreements to gain a competitive advantage in the geospatial imagery analytics market. In March, 2017, Esri and Harris Corporation entered into a five-year agreement. Under this agreement, both the companies help the federal agency programs gain access to commercial imagery from small satellites, open data sources, and unmanned aerial system platforms. Also, in 2016, Esri partnered with IBM users and developers to broaden the customer experience by making Esri data and technology available on the IBM cloud. This enabled IBM customers to accelerate the successful transition to cloud based geospatial and datamapping capabilities. The ESRI has strong presence across the globe and serve its customers through regional offices. The company entered into a joint venture with Zeno Collector in July 2015. With this venture, the ArcGIS mobile app is combined with Zeno 20 to overcome on field data collection challenges by using ArcGIS as its user interface. Moreover, the company faces major challenges of enhancing capabilities of the location based platform as most of the applications are dealing only with proximity analysis.