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Septentrio, a manufacturer of high precision GNSS products for commercial, aerospace, and industrial applications headquartered in Leuven, Belgium announced today that it has signed an agreement with Navigation Solutions Europe B.V. for distribution of Septentrio products in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

DMTI Spatial (DMTI), provider of Location Intelligence, today announced the deployment of an integrated demand management platform by the Eloqua Corporation, the leading supplier of automated demand generation software for business-to-business marketers. The adoption of Eloqua's Conversion Suite platform will refine DMTI’s execution, automation and measurement of multi-channel business-to-business marketing programs. This integration enables DMTI to deploy 'closed-loop' marketing processes that improve marketing effectiveness, visibility and accountability to the customer’s they serve.

The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) announced that its Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference (formerly annual conference) will feature 111 sessions focused on 13 infrastructure-related tracks and the Geospatial Dimensions of Emergency Response Symposium. The event is slated for March 9-12, 2008, at the Washington State Trade & Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.

TopoSys is very pleased to announce the appointment of Svein G. Vatslid to the position of Managing Director of TopoSys effective 1st January 2008.

Infoterra Ltd has been awarded a framework agreement under OGCbuying.solutions' Catalist Geographical Information Services and Solutions framework (GISS), an arrangement that provides a streamlined procurement route for public sector bodies. Under the new Catalist GISS framework, Infoterra has been awarded framework agreements in the GI Mapping Services and GI data supply solutions categories.

Radius Studio is an enterprise data integration and quality assessment tool that makes comprehensive use of the Oracle technology stack. It provides a data certification platform that ensures the quality and consistency of spatial data located in either Oracle 9i / 10g Databases or in vector file formats accessed via Feature Data Objects (FDO). This solution is delivered in a J2EE architecture that offers web access through the Oracle 10g Application Server (or JBoss v4.0.4 GA) and makes effective use of Oracle MapViewer.

Peugeot concept car Peugeot has streamlined the way it plans its franchised UK dealer network, and helped its dealers target customers more precisely and analyse their performance more effectively, by introducing a geographic information system and map data from MapMechanics

TatukGIS announces the release of the .NET Compact Framework edition of the TatukGIS Developer Kernel toolkit product for the development of custom GIS applications for Pocket PC type applications for Windows CE/Mobile operating systems. The DK-Compact Framework (DK-CF) product supports Windows Compact Framework 2.0 development with Visual Studio 2005 and Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5 development with Visual Studio 2008.

The City of Long Beach in Long Beach, CA, is now in production with Telvent Miner & Miner’s ArcFM Solution to support developing and maintaining their gas distribution spatial data. The organization is now able to leverage a GIS solution that provides a more efficient way of maintaining and accessing gas pipe and facility records.