ESRI Selects Blue Raster LLC as Partner of the Year

ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 27, 2006—Blue Raster LLC was awarded ESRI Business Partner of the Year for the Washington D.C Region at the ESRI Worldwide Business Partner Conference held in Palm Springs, California. Blue Raster provides intelligent Web technologies and mapping solutions to federal, non-profit and commercial clients nationwide and has expertise in ArcGIS, ArcIMS, ArcWeb Services and ArcSDE.

Blue Raster is an official ESRI Business Partner and authorized reseller of ESRI software. Blue Raster supports ESRI customers in many industries using ESRI technology and provides consulting and training. With 10 years of experience, Blue Raster builds cost-effective solutions ranging from hardware configurations to turnkey web applications. In addition to working with numerous real estate agencies, Blue Raster developed a species mapping tool called WildFinder for the World Wild Life Fund using ArcWeb Services. WildFinder quickly became one of the most visited sections of the WWF Web site.

“Blue Raster is proud to be recognized by the premier developer of GIS software as an outstanding business partner,” said Michael Lippmann. “We look forward to continually building our partnership with ESRI and providing industry leading GIS mapping solutions to our customers.”

ESRI Partners of the Year are selected for their continued support of ESRI, sales efforts, ingenuity, creativity and contributions towards technology development.


About Blue Raster LLC
Based in Arlington, Va., Blue Raster LLC (www.blueraster.com) develops custom web maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and web-based solutions for businesses and government agencies. With 10 years of experience in every aspect of GIS mapping, the company offers a higher level of customization at a reasonable cost. For more information call (703) 875-0914 or email at info@blueraster.com

About ESRI
For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. ESRI software is used in all 200 of the largest cities in the United States and in more than 60 percent of counties and municipalities nationwide. Headquartered in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 1,600 business partners. ESRI’s goal is to develop comprehensive tools that enable users to efficiently manage, use, and serve geographic information to make a difference in the world around them. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.

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