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I have seen HTE use ESRI in the past.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My boss floated a question regarding GIS and IBM i.

Today, various departments extract customer data out of our DB2 tables,
geocode it themselves and then image it with MapInfo. That works OK,
except that each department has a different (read more or less obsolete)
copy of the customer information, and they each have different geocoding
databases. The boss would like to see all the geocoding brought onto
the midrange (database of record) and he'd also like to see the GIS
queries done on the midrange as well.

I don't think geocoding is going to be too hard (Doesn't WorksRight do
that?) but GIS queries sound difficult. A known use case is to import
school district shape files from the state GIS service and do a query
similar to '...where geocode inside_boundary(SchoolDistrict101)...'

It seems to me that there must be some midrange companies using GIS, if
only for web based store locators. Any advice on what products are
useful is gratefully appreciated.
--buck calabro
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