March 04, 2009 -- 3-GIS, an Alabama based software development and services company has announced it will offer an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program to electric, gas and water/wastewater utility companies with less than 100,000 meters/connections. This ELA will act as a companion to ESRI’s small utility Enterprise License Agreement (SU-ELA).

ESRI introduced its SU-ELA program in early 2009 to give small utilities access to a wide range of geographic information system (GIS) software. With the ESRI SU-ELA, utilities receive selected unlimited deployments of the ArcGIS platform, maintenance, and support for products for an affordable, fixed price that is paid annually over a three year term.

The 3-GIS Companion ELA abides by all terms of the ESRI SU-ELA and additionally offers access to the 3-GIS Suite of products, an ArcGIS Server based suite of thin-client asset management tools which consists of Express Conductor, Field Express Chameleon and Network Express. With the 3-GIS Companion ELA, small utilities get a limitless mix of all 3-GIS licenses with no worries about usage spikes or denial of service.

“Our Companion ELA simplifies the contract and budgeting process for these utility companies and allows them to further gain value from their overall GIS investment,” says Tom Counts, President of 3-GIS. “By mirroring the ESRI SU-ELA, we have greatly simplified the access to our products for participating utility companies and created a pricing model that is very attractive.”

About 3-GIS

3-GIS is a premier GIS software development and services company. The company provides customized software and solutions to a variety of companies in the Utilities, Telecommunications and Homeland Security markets. 3-GIS builds, interfaces, and integrates many diverse AM/FM systems, work management systems, analysis packages and other specialized software. 3-GIS offers the 3-GIS Suite of products, an ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client asset management products.

For more information, visit www.3-GIS.com.

About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. For more information, visit www.esri.com.