While best known for ESRI's popular GIS software, ESRI (Thailand) is also a leader in the application of GIS and related technology for all the government and private organizations throughout the Kingdom of Thailand and Indochina. With more than 10 years of experience, we have over 30 Professional Consulting Service personnel who can help users move through the GIS implementation process quickly and efficiently through technology transfer. They can provide the following services:

• GIS Startup Service
• Programming Service
• GIS Data Service
• Implementation Service

     GIS Startup Service

For some organizations that are new to GIS technology, they should carefully consider and plan their needs before system acquisition, data acquisition, and application development. We can provide our clients several services to support the design of efficient databases, applications, and systems to best meet their needs.


• Training and Seminar
• User Needs Assessment
• Data Evaluation
• User Requirement Analysis
• Project Evaluation and Planning
• System Design and Configuration

One of the most important steps in implementing a GIS is the application development. Application development activities are performed by our staffs with a wide range of experience, from developing specialized applications and solving problems for a specific industry to developing institutional applications for any large organizations. Our staffs are regularly developing complete systems using ArcInfo and ArcView software that involve the full suite of commercial database management systems and programming languages such as Visual C++, Visual Basic or Delphi for MapObjects Application Development. We also use WWW markup languages such as HTML and Java. Most of our application software is designed based on Object-Oriented Programming Technology.

ESRI (Thailand)'s application programming staffs have proven expertise in a variety of GIS and related technologies for the following application areas:


• AM/FM/GIS
• Land Information System
• Town Planning
• Traffic Management
• Call Center
• Map Publishing
• Data Automation
• Natural Resource Management
• … Etc …

Data is considered one of the most important portions of developing a GIS since it consumes considerable amount of time, effort, and budget to create useful GIS data. It is estimated that in a single GIS project, data cost approximately 70-80% of the total cost of the project. So it is essential that an organization acquire a suitable set of GIS data in order to implement the system efficiently. ESRI (Thailand) has extensive experience in dealing with the intricacies of urban, regional, natural resource, business, and utility database structures. For more than 10 years of experience, we have developed efficient and cost-effective methods for interpreting, automating, integrating, and quality checking geographic information.

In conjunction with ESRI software developers, our database services staff conduct ongoing research into the use of advancing technologies, such as scanning, feature recognition, raster-to-vector conversion, and image processing, along with traditional digitizing and key entry methods. In addition, we are the first company in Thailand who introduced pen-based computers to do GIS data automation in the field for maintaining data accuracy and precision. By maintaining a diversity of GIS automation projects, ESRI (Thailand) continues to pioneer unique approaches to data automation and geographic database development.

Organizations can decide to use our data automation service or purchase our quality ArcData Thailand series we already have. A variety of data services include

• Data Collection
• Data Interpretation
• Data Conversion and Integration
• Data Conversion Procedures Development
• Quality Assurance Services
• Database Design

We are confident in our data services for the following reasons:

• We have experienced and knowledgeable staff in the field of surveying and map production.
• Our data service consultants can provide the best database design to suit your needs in your application.
• We have more 400 data automation staffs for the data collection and field survey.
• We use several data conversion/data collection technologies such as pen-based computers, laser guns, and GPS.
• We have variety of data conversion experience ranging from national maps at the scale of 1:250,000 to city map at the scale of 1:1,000.
• Our ArcData series of data covers detailed maps of Bangkok Metropolitan, Greater Bangkok, Surrounding Cities, Major Cities, and Provinces.

The final destination of a GIS development is to achieve a successful implementation in the operation. While our clients may well understand the concepts and technology of GIS, oftentimes they have little or no experience in the actual implementation of a GIS. Implementation Services are tailored to support users requiring assistance throughout the implementation of a GIS. Our goal is to help our clients move through the GIS implementation process quickly and efficiently, implementing their own system during different stages of development while teaching them about the technology so they can become self-sufficient in the use of GIS.

We maintain several distinct implementation programs to support our clients, among them are:

• Our business consulting team can visit you and help you walk through each stage of the development and implementation.
• We offer several training classes from our standard curricula. The customers with any particular needs we also offer customized training support to meet their specific training and implementation needs.
• We provide telephone or email support to our current customers who are under maintenance contract agreement with ESRI.