Game-Changing Technology Puts Risk Knowledge into the Hands of Organizations That Need It

Redlands, California—June 5, 2013 -- Esri announces that Wall Street Network (WSN) has released the first of a dozen risk management solutions, based on  ArcGIS Online, called  XtremeGIS. XtremeGIS provides access to information including global tropical cyclone event and forecast data from  AccuWeather, satellite imagery from  i-cubed, and  WSN's knowledge management software. It can be used to discover and analyze hazards located around assets such as office buildings, retail and manufacturing sites, distribution centers, and the supply chain.

"The bottom line is you don't have to be a meteorologist to understand a hazard or a rocket scientist to understand property risk," says Kristina Mazelis, chief operating officer at WSN. "We do the science and analytics assessing risk and provide access to it through ArcGIS Online, giving everyone the opportunity to assess their own risk."

The solutions provide users with insight into the full life cycle of risk, from mitigation before an event occurs, during the actual event, and managing the aftermath. The first three available now are the following:

• Xtreme Tropical Cyclone—Historical data and real-time storm tracking capabilities just in time for the beginning of the 2013 cyclone season
• Xtreme Proximity—Allows users to look up perils, such as flood zones, history of high-frequency windstorms, terror risks, and more, that are located next to their business assets
• Xtreme Hazard Event Provider (HEP)—A hazard event notification system that alerts users to events that occur in areas they specify

Traditionally, risk management is an expensive process and understood by only a few in an organization who have a high level of knowledge about risk modeling. These subscription-based solutions deliver content through ArcGIS Online so users can do the following:

• Create maps
• Add additional layers of information such as maps of offices, service territories, and customers
• Use the information in other desktop applications including ArcGIS
• Share maps with others via the Internet and mobile devices

"This is a real game changing, disruptive technology," says Simon Thompson, director of commercial industry, Esri. "Currently, when a catastrophic event occurs, everything shuts down. XtremeGIS gives businesses the advantage of insight so they can take control of their own activities and rethink where and how they grow."

To learn more about the XtremeGIS solutions, visit  www.xtremegis.com. For more information on how the ArcGIS platform helps organizations around the world manage risk, visit  esri.com/insurance.

About Wall Street Network, Inc.

Wall Street Network, Inc. is an independent software vendor that develops XtremeGIS Risk Management Solutions, award winning enterprise content & knowledge management software WSN Insight and  Clearview ECM, and provides professional services. Wall Street Network is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, ISV as well as a Microsoft Services Ready Partner.

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at  www.esri.com.


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