News
Release for Carmenta Engine 5.3.1
Product News // Friday, May 24, 2013
Carmenta is pleased to announce a service release (version 5.3.1) of Carmenta Engine, the map engine for Windows and Linux.
This version contains mainly minor improvements and bug fixes.
If you are interested in upgrading, would like to try out the new version or have any other questions, please contact Carmenta support at: support@carmenta.com
Carmenta has successfully arranged a series of webinars under the title; “Keep better track of geodata with new catalogue tools”
Product News // Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The webinar focused on tools and methods to set up an efficient flow of information from different data sources. A solution entirely based on standards using automatic metadata harvesting to build a catalogue over an organisations geodata resources. If you would like to learn more about the webinar please follow this link.
Carmenta Server 4.2.1 released
Product News // Monday, April 22, 2013
Carmenta is pleased to announce a service release of the 4.2 version of Carmenta Server; the complete solution for web based mapping applications.
If you are interested in upgrading, would like to try out the new version or have any other questions, please contact Carmenta support at: support@carmenta.com
PRESSRELEASE: Carmenta acquires command and control application platform
Business News // Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Carmenta a world leader in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) expands its product portfolio by acquiring CoordCom – a market leading platform for command and control applications. The acquisition strengthens Carmenta’s position as a supplier in the market for Emergency Response solutions.
Carmenta AB, headquartered in Gothenburg Sweden, has entered an agreement with Ericsson, the world-leading ICT provider of technology and services to telecom operators, to acquire Ericsson’s command and control application platform CoordCom.
In addition to the acquisition of the CoordCom application platform the two companies have entered a global partnership agreement allowing Ericsson to resell CoordCom as part of its services led Emergency Management offering to 112/911 emergency response agencies.
CoordCom, a feature rich command and control application, allows emergency response agencies to efficiently receive, analyze and dispatch 911/112 emergency calls from the public that require help by police, fire and rescue operations.
Björn Berndtsson, CEO of Carmenta says, “We are delighted to bring our long term strategic partnership with Ericsson to the next level. The CoordCom application allows us to complement our industry leading GIS product ResQMap with command and control application services. Our portfolio will be reinforced by the combination of these products and will ensure us to meet customer’s needs in a more efficient way.”
Paolo Colella, Vice President and Head of Consulting and Systems Integration at Ericsson says: “Having a partner that offers the combination of CoordCom and ResQMap in their portfolio allows us to provide complete Emergency Response solutions for our customers using the latest GIS technology. This mixture of product technology and systems integrations services is unique and gives a clear market advantage.”
Carmenta will acquire the application and added assets from Ericsson. In addition, some 30 CoordCom application professionals will join Carmenta in Q2, 2013.
The term GIS is used for systems designed to capture, store, manage, and present all types of geographical data. For emergency management GIS is essential in today’s Emergency Response solutions.
More information
Björn Berndtsson, CEO, Carmenta AB
+46 70 770 6660
bjorn.berndtsson@carmenta.com
About Carmenta
Carmenta is a software company offering high-performance geospatial (GIS) products and services to customers in the Defence, Security and Enterprise sectors. With over 25 years of experience our technology is characterised by high performance, easy-to-use, openness and scalability. Our products are based on standards and we support most geospatial data formats. As an active member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Carmenta is dedicated to using and promoting open standards wherever possible.
For more information, please visit www.carmenta.com.
Carmenta at Kartdagarna
Business News // Friday, March 22, 2013
Carmenta participated at the Swedish GIS Conference “Kartdagarna 2013” where we had the chance to demonstrate GIS applications developed by Carmenta and also present successful reference cases. Read more about Kartdagarna and see the program (in Swedish only).