NAVTEQ is a leading global provider of digital map data for location based solutions and vehicle navigation. By making NAVTEQ products available on the leading Oracle® Spatial 10g platform, eSpatial enables organizations to integrate location capabilities more easily into their line of business systems.

As a NAVTEQ reseller, and a certified partner of the Oracle Partner Network eSpatial is currently delivering NAVTEQ data products for the USA and Canada as well as major European countries in Oracle Spatial10g format. eSpatial has the expertise to provide configuration and tuning services for the Oracle platform. The datasets are structured to support geospatial users as well as Geocoding and Routing in the Oracle 10g environment. eSpatial further provides geospatial software that can fully utilize the NAVTEQ data within scalable and secure enterprise solutions.

In addition to providing NAVTEQ products in the Oracle 10g format, eSpatial together with NAVTEQ and Oracle, is also announcing a cost effective Geospatial Solutions Suite for Small and Medium Businesses. This solution comes bundled with eSpatial’s iSMART® GeoPortal, Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One and Oracle Application Server 10g Standard Edition One together with a subset of NAVTEQ data. This is ideally suited for businesses and government organizations that need to provide location capabilities in a controlled, secure and enterprise grade environment. Using iSMART’s unique features including pure web based editing and annotation organizations are able to augment NAVTEQ data with business and domain specific information such as customer location, key infrastructure or other points of interest, thus delivering improved service, greater accuracy and a lower cost of maintenance.

"eSpatial’s products and expertise together with our data, will help enable our customers to leverage the power of location specific information across the enterprise," says Roy Kolstad, Vice-President and General Manager Business Solutions, NAVTEQ. "The result will allow NAVTEQ and its customers to provide products and services to customers who already use Oracle as part of their enterprise systems, providing reduced overall cost of ownership and an increased return on investment.”

“eSpatial and NAVTEQ working in partnership to provide data sets and products that are integrated onto the Oracle 10g platform will allow small and midsize organizations an easy to use, one-stop solution” said James Steiner, Senior Director, Server Technologies at Oracle. Additionally, we are very pleased to see eSpatial and NAVTEQ offering Oracle Spatial 10g enterprise customers the benefits of advanced features including searching, geocoding and routing. This combination of data and software products on the Oracle 10g platform is a key development in providing cost effective spatially enabled enterprise grade solutions.”

“We are very pleased to be working with NAVTEQ to deliver Oracle based products and to become a reseller of all NAVTEQ’s products. The combination of eSpatial’s iSMART platform and NAVTEQ’s data opens up a new era for the delivery of integrated enterprise wide Geospatial applications and services,” said David Miller, COO, eSpatial. “Customers will be able to leverage existing business data in combination with NAVTEQ’s data within a single Oracle environment without the need for separate systems.”
As part of the ongoing relationship with NAVTEQ, eSpatial resells NAVTEQ data products for all major GIS platforms and provides implementation and tuning services for clients using the Oracle platform.

About eSpatial
eSpatial, founded in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in the USA, is a world leader in enterprise strength spatial information management technology. Its advanced spatial environment, iSMART, in conjunction with Oracle Spatial, provides a platform for highly scalable and secure spatially enabled applications in a standard enterprise IT environment with unprecedented ease of use, manageability and support for OGC Web Services. Its standards based Rapid Application Development environment and GeoPortal allows organizations to quickly and easily build new applications (or extend existing ones) to include spatial functionality. These applications provide spatial intelligence to anyone, anywhere, on any device, connected or disconnected. eSpatial's technology is used in every area of IT including Public Sector, Defense, Telecommunications and Utility organizations.

About NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ is a leading provider of comprehensive digital map information for automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices, Internet-based mapping applications, and government and business solutions. NAVTEQ creates the digital maps and map content that power navigation and location-based services solutions around the world. The Chicago-based company was founded in 1985 and has approximately 1,900 employees located in over 131 offices in 23 countries. Its European headquarters is in Veldhoven, Netherlands.

More information about NAVTEQ and eSpatial may be found on the Internet at:
http://www.navteq.com and http://www.espatial.com

About The Oracle Partner Network
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of 15,000 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle can qualify for the Oracle Certified Partner levels.

For more Information:
Robin Parrish, Business Development, eSpatial Inc. 2325 Dulles Corner Boulevard, Suite 500, Herndon, VA, 20171, Toll Free: 1 866 E S P A T I A L, Local Phone: (703) 788 6556, f: (703) 788 6511. e: rparrish@espatial.com

Orla Power, Marketing and PR, eSpatial Solutions Ltd., Swords Business Park, Co. Dublin, Ireland. t: +353.1.870.8800, f: +353.1.870.8899, e: info@espatial.com www.espatial.com

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