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LizardTales Newsletter – July 2004
Letter from LizardTech CEO, Carlos Domingo
Dear Customers and Partners,
It has been a year since the new LizardTech emerged after being acquired by Celartem Technologies, Inc. and we have just closed our first fiscal year under the new ownership and management. What could be a better way to celebrate our first anniversary than by announcing that we just had the highest yearly revenue for our geospatial line of products, GeoExpress with MrSID and Express Server, since the company was founded 12 years ago? Additionally, Q4 was also the best quarter ever for overall revenue in North America. Geospatial imagery (both satellite and aerial) is growing at a fast pace driven by increased resolution of images, the move to digital acquisition on both satellite and aerial platforms and the increased usage of imagery by federal agencies like NGA. Today, a single flight with a digital camera can easily generate 500GB of imagery and users will only benefit from the imagery if it is readily accessible throughout the organization. LizardTech products make imagery more accessible and easier to distribute than any other solution available and our performance over the previous 12 months is a testament.
On the document imaging side, we continue to successfully execute our strategy of becoming the leading company for scanned and electronic document distribution. We have just announced that we are strengthening our distribution by signing with NewWave Technologies in North America and Headway in Europe as well as partnerships with document imaging leaders like Kodak and Captiva.
I look forward to being in touch with you again next quarter to update you on new products and our continued success.
Regards,
Carlos Domingo
President and CEO
Celartem Inc.
New LizardTech Partnerships
In Q3, LizardTech forged a number of technology alliances and channel partnerships.
Latin America Resellers - LizardTech Names Four Key Resellers to Represent its Geospatial Imaging Solutions in Latin America. Read the full news release.
Captiva - LizardTech Teams with Captiva to Deliver Cost-Effective Scanned Color Documents.Read the full news release.
NewWave Technologies - LizardTech Signs Distribution Agreement with NewWave Technologies to Represent its Document Imaging Products in the
U.S. and with Headway to Represent Document Imaging Products in Europe.
Read the full news release about NewWave Technologies.
Read the full news release about Headway.
Kodak - LizardTech Teams with Kodak to Deliver Cost-Effective Scanned Color Documents. Read the full news release.
GeoExpress 4.0 with MrSID®
Support for Next Generation MrSID Format now available in Intergraph’s GeoMedia 5.2 Product Suite. Read the full news release: LizardTech Announces Support for Next Generation MrSID Format in Intergraph’s GeoMedia 5.2 Product Suite. Read it here.
GeoWorld Magazine profiles GeoExpress 4.0 with MrSID. Read the full feature.
Experience the quality and resolution of GeoExpress with MrSID: Locate the Lizard hidden in a 3GB MrSID mosaic of Paris for a chance to win a handheld GPS system. Click here.
Express Server 4.6 with ArcIMS Integration Toolkit
LizardTech Express Server Achieves Successful ESRI Proof of Concept with EMC Centera and ArcGIS
To complete the tests, image files were converted from their native format to LizardTech’s MrSID, the de facto industry standard for managing, accessing and distributing massive geospatial imagery such as aerial photos and satellite images. Each test image file was accessed at full extent and at zoomed-in using ArcMap and ArcIMS from both Express Server and Centera.
Proof of concept test results conclude that response times with Centera data were equal to or faster than locally stored data; therefore, Express Server coupled with Centera can be considered for a real-time application. The ArcIMS configuration performed just as well as the ArcMap configuration.
Experience the speed and efficiency of Express Server: Locate the Lizard hidden in a 3GB MrSID mosaic of Paris for a chance to win a handheld GPS system. Click here.
Document Express 5.0 with DjVu®
Are you getting maximum mileage from your color scanner?
With typical compression ratios between 300:1 and 1000:1, Document Express with DjVu makes color scanning in business applications as cost-effective as scanning in black and white. The size of a color DjVu file is equivalent in size to a black and white document TIFF or JPEG file without compromising document quality.
Document Express with DjVu – The No Compromise Document Solution
| Reduce Costs DjVu gives you compact, high quality document images, dramatically reducing your electronic document storage and bandwidth costs. |
| Save Time Scan all your documents in color, eliminating the need for presorting and rescanning later. |
| Locate Important Information With OCR support for over 100 languages, the text in your scanned documents is now searchable by keyword enabling you to retrieve just the documents you need. |
| Electronically Distribute Documents A typical full-color letter size DjVu file at 300 dots per inch (dpi) produces a lightweight 50 Kb file allowing important documents to move swiftly across a network or the Internet. |
To learn more about Document Express with DjVu, click here.
Genuine Fractals 3.5
Genuine Fractals will be highlighted in a new book for digital photography enthusiasts to be published by Wiley this October. The book is entitled: Total Digital Photography: The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook. Learn more about the book here.
Genuine Fractals family of products will be officially launched in Japan on July 26, 2004. Now, Genuine Fractals can be purchased online through the LizardTech Web store on the Japan site:Click here.
Customer service in Japanese will also be available.
Where is LizardTech?
Events in North America
ESRI User Conference
August 9-13, 2004 - San Diego, California
The largest gathering in the world of professionals who use or support GIS
tools. Click here.
AIIM Content Management Seminar
September 23, 2004 - Atlanta, GA
September 30, 2004 - Philadelphia, PA
October 7, 2004 - Boston, MA
October 14, 2004 - Chicago, IL
October 19, 2004 - St. Louis, MO
This FREE educational seminar produced by AIIM – the industry’s leading non-profit association – will educate you on the important steps and issues needed to help your organization plan an ECM strategy and succeed. Click here.
Events in Europe, Middle East, Asia
Map Asia 2004
August 26-29, 2004 - Beijing, China
Map Asia 2004 is the largest Annual Asian Conference and Exhibition in the field of GIS, GPS, Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing. Click here.
DMS Expo Germany
September 7-9, 2004 - Essen, Germany
Conference offers focused and in-depth education on document management systems for managers, CIOs, CTOs and technical specialists. Click here.
ESRI Netherlands User Conference
September 29-30, 2004 - Rotterdam, Netherlands
The largest gathering in the world of professionals who use or support GIS
tools. Click here.
For a complete schedule of LizardTech events, Click here.
Promotions
LizardTech Giveaway - Where in the World is LizardTech? Locate the Lizard for a chance to win a handheld GPS system.
This giveaway is designed to showcase the power of LizardTech’s geospatial imaging products. Using GeoExpress with MrSID, a 3GB mosaic containing over 700 aerial images of the city of Paris can be compressed into a high quality 180MB MrSID® image, then rapidly served over the Internet using Express Server 4.6. Within the image of Paris lounges a Lizard. Send us the correct cursor location of the Lizard for a chance to win a Garmin Geko 201 GPS (12 Channel, WAAS) handheld GPS system.
Click here to enter the LizardTech Giveaway.
