FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KorTerra, Inc. Joins ESRI's Business Partner Program
Minneapolis, MN - August 24th, 2004 — KorTerra, Inc. announces that it has been accepted into ESRI's Business Partner Program. KorTerra will be integrating ESRI mapping technology into their KorTerra ™ software product suite for the utility damage prevention and One Call industry.
The KorTerra™ product suite, designed by One Call industry professionals, is the industry’s most comprehensive utility workforce management and damage prevention software solution. The software efficiently manages locating ticket receipt and dispatch, on-time response, management reporting, positive response, and keeps track of locating operations performance in a real-time, mobile and paperless environment. Through understanding the industry trends towards using mapping in all facets of utility underground facility locating, KorTerra is working with ESRI technology to develop fully integrated mapping functionality into their software offerings.
The ESRI Business Partner Program is a network of more than 1,600 domestic and international developers, consultants, data publishers, and value-added resellers who, utilizing ESRI technology, provide solutions to meet the geographic information system (GIS) needs of every industry. Working together, ESRI and its business partners solve business problems with new software applications, data, and value-added services.
“It was imperative that we partner with an organization who is considered the GIS technology leader by the utility industry and also offered a robust technology toolset for integration with our KorTerra product suite.” said Chris Stendal, President, “KorTerra is proud and excited to be accepted into the ESRI Business Partner Program We believe by integrating ESRI mapping technology into our software, we will be able to offer our clients and prospective clients the most comprehensive dispatch solution available in the market.”
About ESRI
Founded in 1969, ESRI (www.esri.com) is the world leader in the GIS software industry.
ESRI offers innovative solutions that help users create, manage,
analyze, and display information to make timely decisions and solve
problems they encounter every day. ESRI’s comprehensive product line
ranges from desktop GIS to GIS for the enterprise.
ESRI and www.esri.com are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of ESRI in the United States, the European Community, or certain other jurisdictions. Other companies and products mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.
About KorTerra, Inc.
Since 1990, KorTerra, Inc. has developed mobile computing and workforce
management solutions for the utility industry. They have worked with
major utilities, contract locators and municipalities to develop a
variety of Utility Workforce Management systems. The software
effectively manages on-time response, management reporting, positive
response, and keeps track of locating team performance in a real-time,
mobile and paperless environment. KorTerra also provides ASP services;
capabilities that allow KorTerra to host the software on their servers
with customer access to the application via the Internet. KorTerra
software interfaces with every One Call Center and is used by Utilities,
Municipalities and Contract Locators across North America. Today, over
20,000,000 tickets are managed by the KorTerra application annually. To
learn more about KorTerra and see what their customers are saying about
the KorTerra product suite, go to
www.korterra.com, or contact via telephone at 952.368.1911.
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For additional information contact:
Press Contact(s):
Chris Stendal, President
KorTerra, Inc.
18882 Lake Drive East
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Tel: 952.368.1911
Fax: 952.697.3141
Email: sales@korterra.com
