NIIT GIS (ESRI India) to power Singapore Intelligent Map System using ESRI Technology

New Delhi, March 30, 2009: Singapore Land Authority recently awarded the contract to develop its Intelligent Map System to NIIT GIS.
The system is envisaged to be the next generation mapping portal for various government and private agencies including citizens of Singapore enabling them to share spatial content using internet services, accessible on desktop and mobile platforms. It will be designed to serve a common base map of Singapore for displaying location information along with intelligent search and navigation tools, thus facilitating multiple agencies to mash up spatial content and provide a variety of useful information in an integrated environment. 
NIIT GIS will develop the system using industry leading ESRI ArcGIS Server technology - the first in the industry to provide mash up capability and implement it on a turnkey basis including state of the art hardware, software and helpdesk support.
NIIT GIS has a large and competent team of professionals and rich experience in developing Server GIS based Content Dissemination Portals and it plans to leverage the full potential offered by ArcGIS technology and develop a scalable and responsive GIS application for the Singapore Land Authority. It will be a first of its kind implementation in Singapore for facilitating spatial data users across the country to deploy map data and GIS processing tasks in lightweight, customized Web mapping applications, thus providing simpler ways to integrate spatial content.

"NIIT-GIS is proud to be associated with this unique intelligent map system of SLA. We will closely work with ESRI Singapore and will bring its ESRI India strengths to this project. NIIT-GIS is committed to the success of this project and would deliver a world-class solution by crafting and designing the best of the GIS solution for it. This award is reflection of the single-minded effort and commitment of NIIT to expand our unique GIS solutions offerings within the region by working with local ESRI Distributors”  said Mr Kailash Agarwal, Asia Pacific Head of GIS Business, NIIT Technologies, Singapore

“The award of this tender to NIIT Technologies brings us one step closer to our aim of creating a common and consistent map interface for government agencies to build their own map services using an Application Programming Interface. SLA expects that NIIT Technologies will be able to come up with an exceptional solution that will bring in unique capabilities of intelligent map services for Singaporeans. The public will soon be able to tap on rich government content and mash up with their own collection of spatial information to create services and to support enterprises’ business needs, and individuals’ personal needs.” said Mr Ng Siau Yong, SLA’s director of Land Asset Management Services and Land Information Centre

About SLA
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is responsible for the administration and management of State land and properties. It is also the national land registration and land boundary survey authority.
SLA’s Land Information Centre (LIC) manages a land data repository and data exchange among public agencies. SLA also licenses land data for both online and printed street maps.  It is also a key agency in a whole-of-government effort to establish a national spatial data infrastructure. Digitized information on Singapore's roads and MRT networks, properties boundary, outlines of public housing and industrial buildings are collated in Singapore's Land Data Hub. The digitized land information is disseminated to the public through the following services. SLA provides free online map services at www.map.gov.sg for the general public. Such free services include street maps, State land ownership searches, and wireless hotspots searches. SLA’s Integrated Land Information Service (INLIS) provides a one-stop internet portal which gives information on land matters such as road line plans, survey plans, and boundaries of properties. In addition, INLIS also provides information on property such as ownership of property, property transaction history, primary school listing and surrounding amenities.
For further information, please visit www.sla.gov.sg   
About ESRI India
ESRI India (NIIT GIS Limited), a GIS Solutions company that endeavors to provide end-to-end GIS based solutions ranging from software products, application development, training, data conversion and technical support. ESRI India (NIIT GIS Limited) today enjoys market leadership in the field of GIS with largest installation base across different vertical segments in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Formed in 1996 as a joint venture between ESRI Inc. (US) and NIIT Technologies (India). USA based ESRI Inc.
ESRI India provides to its customers the complete range of GIS solutions from ESRI Inc., GIS database design and organization, GIS application development, developing Enterprise-GIS solutions and education services. The coming together of the world's finest GIS company with India's leading software services company offers us the advantage of combining best technology with sound development and quality processes, enabling ESRI India to emerge as a leader in providing software products, path breaking geospatial application and data solutions, training and support. Our operations are ISO certified. ESRI India is headquartered in New Delhi, India and operates through multiple Sales and Support offices in India, US and Singapore.
About NIIT Technologies

NIIT Technologies is a leading IT solutions organisation, servicing customers in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It offers services in Application Development and Maintenance, Enterprise Solutions including Managed Services and Business Process Management to organizations in the Financial Services, Travel, Retail and Distribution, and Government sectors.
NIIT Technologies' software development processes are assessed at SEI CMMI – Level 5 Version 1.2. Its human resource processes are assessed at the highest-level of maturity at PCMM Level 5. Further NIIT Technologies has processes and systems for information security management certified in accordance to the ISO 27001 standard, and its facilities offering Managed Services conform to ISO 20000 standard of Service Management.
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