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Geosoft Awarded ESRI Business Partner of the Year

April 17, 2007 – Toronto, Ontario – Geosoft Incorporated, a leader in geoscience software and solutions, was selected by ESRI as a 2007 Business Partner of the Year. The award is presented each year to a select group of ESRI business partners worldwide in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the geographic information systems (GIS) industry and to the success of the ESRI Business Partner Program.

"This award is a testament to the success of our partnership with ESRI," said Troy Wilson, VP Marketing, Geosoft. "It validates Geosoft's continued leadership in providing solutions that utilize ESRI's ArcGIS software for the mining and geoscience markets. We are committed to supporting geoscientists with faster, better ways to discover and integrate their data for optimal decision-making."

Troy Wilson, VP Marketing (left) and Jeff Hoedeman Director, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships (right) accept the 2007 ESRI Business Partner of the Year Award on behalf of Geosoft. Presenting the award is Jack Dangermond, president and founder of ESRI.

The partnership between Geosoft and ESRI leverages Geosoft's industry experience and robust workflows for managing and analyzing large earth datasets within ESRI's GIS platform. Geosoft's innovative Target for ArcGIS software is a subsurface geology extension to ArcGIS which simplifies and extends visualization and analysis of subsurface drillhole and borehole data within ESRI's GIS environment.

A new collaboration announced by both companies in March this year, will focus on the delivery of integrated software and data management solutions for the global mining and geosciences sector. The collaboration will result in a scalable and interoperable software platform that improves the availability and integration of geoscientific data for successful earth exploration and discovery.

"This award honours and recognizes the strong and long lasting relationship that exists between Geosoft and ESRI Canada," said John Houweling, Regional Manager, Ontario, ESRI Canada. "Geosoft is working closely with ESRI Inc. and ESRI Canada to build a strategic partnership in the global mining space."

Currently, more than 5,000 business, government and education customers in over 100 countries use Geosoft software as part of their solutions for earth exploration and discovery. Geosoft customers include CVRD, Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration, Teck Cominco, FUGRO, Shell, Petrobras, Talisman Energy, Solid Energy, Golder Associates, WL Gore & Associates, US Army Corps of Engineers as well as hundreds of international government agencies, geological surveys and educational institutions.

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