Esri

Not to be confused with Ezri. For the Irish think tank, see Economic and Social Research Institute.
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
Esri
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded1969; 55 years ago (1969)
Redlands, California, U.S.
Founders
Headquarters
Redlands, California
,
U.S.
ProductsArcGIS, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro
Revenue$1.1 billion (2014 statistics)[3]
Number of employees
3,800+ (2016 statistics)[4]
Websitewww.esri.com Edit this at Wikidata

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri (/ˈɛzriː/),[5] is an American multinational geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California.[6] It is best known for its ArcGIS products. With a 40% market share in 2011, Esri is one of the world's leading supplier of GIS software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications.[7][8]

Founded in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm, Esri currently has 49 offices worldwide including 11 research and development centers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific.[9][10] There are 10 regional U.S. offices and over 3,000 partners globally, with users in every country and a total of over a million active users in 350,000 organizations. These include Fortune 500 companies, most national governments, 20,000 cities, all 50 US States and 7,000+ universities. The firm has 4,000 total employees, and is privately held by its founders.[11][12][13][14][15] In a 2016 Investor's Business Daily article, Esri's annual revenues were indicated to be $1.1 billion.[16]

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