ESRI

ESRI may refer to: *Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), an Irish economic research institute *Esri, a GIS software company (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri ( ), is an American geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California. It is best known for its ArcGIS products. With 45% market share as of 2015, Esri is one of the world's leading suppliers of GIS software, web GIS, local intelligence, and geodatabase management applications. The company currently has 49 offices worldwide including 11 research and development centers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific. There are 10 regional U.S. offices and over 3,000 partners globally, with users in every country and a total of over a million active users in 350,000 organizations. These include Fortune 500 companies, most national governments, 20,000 cities, all 50 US States and 7,000+ universities. The firm has 4,000 total employees, and is privately held by its founders. Strategic partners include Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Autodesk, and SAP, among others. In a 2016 Investor's Business Daily article, Esri's annual revenues were indicated to be $1.1 billion.

Online GIS

Data formats

Vector

Shapefile – Esri's proprietary, hybrid vector data format using SHP, SHX and DBF files. Originally invented in the early 1990s, it is still commonly used as a widely supported spatial data interchange format. Enterprise Geodatabase – Esri's geodatabase format for use in an relational database system. File Geodatabase – Esri's file-based geodatabase format, stored as folders in a file system. Personal Geodatabase – Esri's closed, integrated vector data storage strategy using Microsoft's Access MDB format is a legacy format generally replaced by the file geodatabase in most contemporary use. With the retirement of the ArcMap application, personal geodatabases are being phased out and are not compatible with the newer software, ArcGIS Pro. Coverage – Esri's closed, hybrid vector data storage strategy. Legacy ArcGIS Workstation / ArcInfo format with reduced support in modern application.

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