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ESRI UK and GB Group develop
ESRI UK and GB Group develop.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 9059U GB Group PLC 25 October 2010 \n \n\n \n \n New solution from ESRI UK and GB Group harnesses the power of location \n \nLONDON - 25 October 2010 - Leading Geographical Information System (GIS) provider, ESRI UK, and identity management specialist, GB Group, have developed a solution which brings together both parties' software applications to link UK postcodes and addresses with live geographical data in order to help organisations make faster, location-based decisions. LocatorHub GBAccelerator is a powerful reference data solution that provides organisations with a flexible, live feed of the most current address information integrated through ESRI's mapping solutions. \n \nLocatorHub GBAccelerator links postcodes and addresses with UK geographical data to significantly increase the accuracy of referenced information - ensuring that details are verified and supplied in a consistent format from day one. This provides organisations with accurate and timely information resulting in quicker and better results to their data queries. The technology also combines a geo-coding solution to map clients' existing data. \n \nThe solution can be tailored to suit a client's exact needs if required. A number of flexible aggregated data options are available for ESRI UK's customers from the launch of the service - dependant on their sector and business needs - with a comprehensive roadmap of additional data options to follow and customer specific data builds which are available on request. Used interactively, simply entering a partial address or postcode will return a fully geocoded address allowing the client to zoom or pan the GIS map to the desired location.\n \n\"We work with a large number of clients who need to be able to utilise and analyse a broad range of data in a GIS and who cannot afford to have inaccurate information,\" says Lincoln Hewett, Alliance Director at GB Group. \"Our collaboration with ESRI UK allows us to offer a cost effective solution to the marketplace that allows organisations to successfully utilise customer, supplier, event, incident and any other location based data in GIS.\"\n\nThe ESRI and GB Group solution has a number of key benefits including, helping the emergency services react to crime and incidents more quickly, en...