FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

August 1, 2001

 

For more information contact:                    John Connors

                                                            Vice President, Sales and Marketing

                                                            Paragon Imaging

                                                            Jack@paragon.com

                                                            781-937-9800

 

 

PARAGON IMAGING ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH INTERGRAPH CORPORATION

 

Paragon’s ELT Series Software will be integrated with Intergraph’s GeoMedia products

 

Woburn, MA: Paragon Imaging, the leading developers of Image Processing/GIS Software, announced today a strategic partnership with Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions, a division of Intergraph Corporation.

 

Paragon’s ELT Series software will be integrated with Intergraph’s GeoMedia® software and offered to both Paragon and Intergraph’s worldwide customer base as a seamless GIS/image exploitation solution.

 

The ELT functionality offers high-powered exploitation features such as: Gigabyte-sized image handling, precise image quality, geo-registration, mensuration, and image/map comparison tools. This functionality, combined with the GIS support that GeoMedia already offers, will provide a complete package for imagery analysis in a geospatial context. The Paragon ELT functionality also provides support of over 25 image file formats, including the DoD based NITF and NSIF formats.

 

GeoMedia’s open architecture provides an environment in which Paragon’s image exploitation solution becomes a seamless add-on capability and its intuitive interface makes it is easy to use. With GeoMedia’s innovative data server technology, users will now be able to incorporate advanced image and image processing capabilities into their geospatial work environment. While in the process of imagery analysis, users can access and manipulate disparate GIS data in its native format, including many of the popular database industry formats. GeoMedia enables users to perform multiple queries, access and analyze data, and make smarter analytical decisions, all in a single environment.

 

“Paragon Imaging has worked diligently over the past 14 years with the “Best of Breed” software developers in this industry,” said John Connors, vice president of Paragon Imaging.  “This partnership underscores what we’ve known for a long time… that our ELT Series is a world-class solution, and that it would best serve a larger market. We are pleased to know that its feature-rich functionality will be an integral part of Intergraph’s GeoMedia product offerings and that their universal customer base will utilize this technology. The geospatial community now has a state-of-the-art solution that combines the best in imagery and mapping functionality.”

 

Preetha Pulusani, executive vice president, Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions, commented, “The combination of GIS and image processing is not a new idea, but bringing together GeoMedia and the ELT Series in a unified environment truly provides a world-class integrated product and offers the best of both worlds. We foresee that it will significantly increase productivity in many workflows and industries. While these tools have traditionally been targeted at image analysis in military GIS and intelligence workflows, we also see many application benefits for users with imagery data in transportation agencies and local government.”

 

About Paragon Imaging

Headquartered in the northern Boston suburb of Woburn, Massachusetts, Paragon Imaging is a leading provider of image processing and presentation software for government, defense, and related markets. Their suite of products provide analysts with tools to exploit critical information from digital images, to link other associated information with these images, and to support sharing the processed analysis with decision makers and other information consumers.

 

About Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions, a division of Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR), delivers comprehensive geospatial solutions to government, commercial, and international markets. The company provides core and industry-specific software products, solutions for map production and enterprise-wide mapping and GIS, and services ranging from project implementation to production. A technology innovator and market leader, Intergraph helps customers merge their geospatial data with information technology and business process tools to meet their enterprise and operational goals and to enable data sharing enterprise-wide.

 

For More Information:

To learn more about Paragon Imaging, please call them at 781-937-9800 or visit their website at www.paragon.com

 

To learn more about Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions, please call 1-800-791-3357, email gis@ingr.com or visit their website at www.intergraph.com/imgs.