San Diego, California – July 12, 2010 - 3-GIS, a GIS product development and services company, has announced the creation of a BlackBerry® smartphone application that allows users to collect and modify data in a disconnected environment. 3-GIS will preview and demonstrate this new product, a hybrid of the 3-GIS Buzz application, at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, California from July 12-16, 2010.

The 3-GIS Buzz application was developed to give BlackBerry users the ability to view and query GIS data, but the user had to be within range of a working cellular network tower in order to collect and sync data.

“With the introduction of this product, we allow users to continue collecting data while working in a remote location,” says Tom Counts, President of 3-GIS. “Then, the data can be easily synced back to the system when the user is within range.”

This new version of Buzz is equipped with a Sybase® SQL Anywhere® database that stores and synchronizes data captured on the BlackBerry device.

“We are excited to work with 3-GIS to bring forward a product that customers have been asking for,” says David Jonker, Group Manager of Product Marketing for Sybase. “Developing smartphone applications with proven mobile middleware enables solutions like 3-GIS Buzz for disconnected operation, which will be particularly helpful to damage assessment crews working in areas struck by a natural disaster.”

To learn more about this product, visit the 3-GIS and Sybase booths at 2606 and P2935

About 3-GIS
3-GIS is a premier GIS product development and services company. The company provides off-the-shelf software and solutions to a variety of companies in the Utilities, Telecommunications and Emergency Management markets. 3-GIS also builds, interfaces, and integrates many diverse asset management systems, work management systems, analysis packages and other specialized software. 3-GIS offers the Express Solution, an ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client asset management products.

For more information, visit www.3-GIS.com.

About Sybase
Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world’s most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com.