ESRI and Cook-Hurlbert Announce Relationship

Redlands, California-ESRI and Cook-Hurlbert, Inc. (CH), today announced the formation of a business relationship for delivering technology solutions to electric and gas utility markets.

The relationship was formed between CH and ESRI to provide innovative geographic information system (GIS) and engineering design solutions and services through the integration of CH and ESRI technologies for a number of utility applications. Specifically, ESRI’s leading ArcInfo 8.0.1 software now works directly with CH-Expert Designer Version 3.

“Our business partner relationships provide optimum solutions for customers looking for the synergy of specific industry expertise in software and services combined with the very best GIS tools,” said Mitch Garnett, utility industry solutions manager, ESRI. “CH brings expert implementation services and software solutions for engineering design. We are excited about the integration of ArcInfo 8 with CH software and what it means for the utility industry.”

“This partnership is an important step forward,” said Vonnie Smith, president of Cook- Hurlbert. “It ensures both ESRI and Cook-Hurlbert customers have access to the most advanced technology available in GIS and engineering design/analysis products.”

Cook-Hurlbert, Inc., provides engineering design and analysis software products and services. The company’s premier software package, CH-Expert Designer, provides utilities with an off-the-shelf solution for optimized design and integration between GIS and work management systems. The software's features include workload management, dynamic cost estimating, and drag and drop placement, with the ability to design both in the office and in the field.

Expert Designer Version 3 is developed with Component Object Model (COM) technology and standard desktop functionality. COM has advanced portability, making it easy and efficient to move the product between GIS environments and lightweight graphic environments, giving the designer the capability of taking automated design functionality into the field. ArcInfo 8.0.1 is the most significant GIS release to ever hit the computing market. The result of the largest, most comprehensive research and development effort of its kind, ArcInfo 8.0.1 provides the most powerful and modern platform available for creating, managing, disseminating, and applying geographic knowledge. ArcInfo 8 began shipping December 1999.

For more than thirty years, ESRI has been the leading developer of geographic information system (GIS) software with more than 220,000 clients worldwide. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. In addition to its headquarters in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than ninety countries, and more than 700 resellers and developers. ESRI’s goal is to provide users with comprehensive tools to help them quickly and efficiently manage and use geographic information to make a real difference in the world around them. ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.

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Cook-Hurlbert, Inc. (www.cook-hurlbert.com), is a leading provider of automated mapping/facilities management/GIS services and software products for utilities. The firm’s services include software development, custom application development, data modeling, data conversion, project management, and consulting. Along with Expert Designer, the Cook-Hurlbert software product line includes CH-Analysis (Electric and Gas), which offers state-of-the-art tools for distribution system analysis, and CH-Quality Control, a data integrity analysis tool.

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