eSpatial’s iSMART now incorporates OGC bundled components as part of the base product providing Open Standards capabilities at no additional cost within a robust and scalable enterprise environment on the Oracle platform.

Management of OGC Web services is provided using iSMART’s unique web-based data management and configuration utility which allows Oracle, OGC web service and other data to be seamlessly combined for use within an OGC Web Service, or a pure-web or other end user application. Data from Oracle, OGC web services, and other sources can be published through OGC web services (WMS or WFS) within minutes, and data from OGC web services can be published to the web equally easily.

“Supporting Open Standards is critical to our customers and partners” said Philip O’Doherty, eSpatial CEO, “the Open Geospatial Consortium standards are becoming ‘must have’ features in integrated spatial and business systems. eSpatial is an active member of the OGC and we will continue to roll out the most robust and easiest to use OGC implementations as part of our core product”.

"The standards defined by the Open GeoSpatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) are essential for interoperability and extensibility between geospatial and location based services tools and information. As an important and added measure of assurance, the OGC offers technology the opportunity to test and certify their offerings for compliance with Open GIS® specifications.” quotes Sam A. Bacharach, Executive Director Outreach, Open GeoSpatial Consortium, Inc. “We acknowledge eSpatial commitment to OGC standards, interoperability, and their work to attain OGC certified compliance."

“Support for Open GeoSpatial Consortium Standards is driving seamless co-existence with other GIS tools and applications in the enterprise environment”, said Eamon Walsh, eSpatial CTO, “This is also the key enabler of emerging Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI)”.

Further OGC capabilities will be rolled out within iSMART in forthcoming product releases based on customer and partner requirements.

ABOUT ESPATIAL
eSpatial is driven by the vision that spatial and location information is rapidly becoming a key part of mainstream business processes; integrated spatial information, anywhere, in any application. Our mission is to facilitate this by providing cost effective spatial technology that can drive the development of this market. Using the iSMART product suite, our specific technology objective is to create the leading open standards based platform and development tools for enterprise geospatial systems. Founded in 1997, eSpatial has headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and Herndon, VA.

ABOUT OGC
The OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 280 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS(R) Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org.

CONTACTS.
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