Esri
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri (/ˈɛzriː/), is an American multinational geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California. It is best known for its ArcGIS products. With a 40% market share, Esri is the world's leading supplier of GIS software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications.
Trade name | Esri |
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 1969 Redlands, California, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | Redlands, California , U.S. |
| Products | ArcGIS, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro |
| Revenue | $1.1 billion (2014 statistics) |
Number of employees | 3,800+ (2016 statistics) |
| Website | www |
Founded in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm, Esri currently has 49 offices worldwide including 11 research and development centers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific. There are 10 regional U.S. offices and over 3,000 partners globally, with users in every country and a total of over a million active users in 350,000 organizations. These include Fortune 500 companies, most national governments, 20,000 cities, all 50 US States and 7,000+ universities. The firm has 4,000 total employees, and is privately held by its founders. In a 2016 Investor's Business Daily article, Esri's annual revenues were indicated to be $1.1 billion.