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Developer Program Spotlight: MetaCarta Alliance Program
Written by Glenn Letham (GISuser editor)
Monday, 12 March 2007
The MetaCarta Alliance Program encourages leading software companies, systems integrators and consulting companies to work together to create innovative enterprise search, content/document management, and GIS Connectors for a wide scope of organizations. Recall recently Metacarta announced support for KML for MetaCarta Geographic Text Search (GTS) enabling companies and governments using their solutions to now search unstructured text documents for geographic locations and visualize these references on a map using Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer or NASA World Wind interfaces.
The ultimate goal of these partnerships is to leverage these relationships to optimize MetaCarta's value as a fully integrated solution for our customers and to increase market share.
Through the MetaCarta Alliance Program, our partners can provide new software and services, expand existing markets, and penetrate new markets.
Partner Benefits Enhance current product offerings Increase revenue opportunities Obtain a competitive advantage The MetaCarta Alliance Program has three major components
Strategic Alliances
Developer Alliances
Systems Integrator Alliances
Through the MetaCarta Alliance Program, we encourage leading software companies, systems integrators and consulting companies to work together to create innovative enterprise search, content/document management, and GIS Connectors for a wide scope of organizations. To read about the latest integrations, please visit our partners Web page.
Partners include the likes of: EMC/Documentum ESRI Google OpenText Convera ObjectFX Thetus
More About MetaCarta - MetaCarta, Inc., a provider of geographic intelligence solutions, provides users with map-driven geographic search, geographic referencing, and data visualization capabilities. MetaCarta products make data and unstructured content “location-aware” making that information geographically relevant. These innovative solutions make it possible for customers to discover, visualize, and act on important location-based information. Founded by a team of MIT researchers in 2001, MetaCarta is privately held, with US headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in Vienna, Virginia and Houston, Texas.
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The MetaCarta Alliance Program encourages leading software companies, systems integrators and consulting companies to work together to create innovative enterprise search, content/document management, and GIS Connectors for a wide scope of organizations. Recall recently Metacarta announced support for KML for MetaCarta Geographic Text Search (GTS) enabling companies and governments using their solutions to now search unstructured text documents for geographic locations and visualize these references on a map using Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer or NASA World Wind interfaces.
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