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Jul 2006.
Genasys selectes GIS-Mart as key regional distributor for the GenaMap Product Suite

Genasys is pleased to announce the availability of distribution and first line support for the GenaMap Product Suite in sub-Saharan Africa through South Africa-based GIS-Mart.

Zoltan Szecsei, Managing Director of GIS-Mart comments of his company's selection as regional partners: "I have been working with GenaMap for more than 17 years through our sister business Geograph, a GIS development and data capture services company. In all that time, I've not used a GIS platform more useful for application development, topology building, or data capture. I'm looking forward to building up a network of regional GIS integrators geared towards specific sectors. I'm convinced it will be easy to illustrate to them the benefits of the system, both in terms of its technical strengths as well as its economic value."

GenaMap first came on the scene in the early 80s and over the next few years became one of the leading names in the GIS world. However, in the 90s, poor management decisions led to a decline in the system's popularity and by the year 2004, GenaMap had faded into the background, despite its core strengths and competitive advantages as a development platform. That is when Genasys stepped in to buy out previous GenaMap management, GenaWare. Genasys CEO Pablo Colom explains, "We brought GenaMap into the Genasys product line because because we feel that the product has a great deal of unrealized potential. Its processing capacity and flexible scripting language enable the rapid development of complex and powerful custom GIS solutions. Like GIS-Mart, Genasys also has a long and fruitful history with the GenaMap product and we're keen to spread the word."

Version 9 of the GenaMap Product Suite was released in May of this year, the first version of the product released under the Genasys brand. "We've made it clear to our GenaMap customers that with Genasys management, there has been a redoubled commitment to the future of this product and to growing its client base. To do so, we are building a network of professional and experienced GIS integrators to act as regional distributors. The partnership with GIS-Mart is first and excellent step in that direction."

GenaMap is currently distributed and supported through Genasys offices in Madrid, Sydney, and Raleigh, NC (USA) as well as through distributors in Colombia, Argentina, Holland, Germany, Turkey, and now South Africa.