Spatial Business Systems Opens New Australian Office

Located in Melbourne, the office will serve advanced spatial integration needs of the Asia-Pacific market

Lakewood, CO, August 6, 2007 — Spatial Business Systems, a leading provider of advanced geospatial solutions for the utility, communications and government markets announces that the company is opening a new office based in Melbourne, Australia.  The office will allow the company to better support their growing list of clients in the region and to continue to expand the company’s global presence.

“We have enjoyed a long-term relationship with many Australian companies since we formed Spatial Business Systems five years ago.” said Dennis F. Beck, president, Spatial Business Systems.  “We are pleased that we can now support them locally with advanced products and services to support their needs for integrated, open geospatial solutions.”

The new office will be led by Greg House, Managing Director of Spatial Business Systems, Pty, Ltd.  House is a 25 year veteran in the Australian geospatial industry, having worked with many of Australia’s leading utilities in various professional capacities.  “We are very enthused about the interest that the Australian market has in our offerings”, said Mr. House.  “We look forward to being able to provide them with the best solutions to spatially-enable their businesses.”

Spatial Business Systems Makes “The List”

Spatial Business Systems is recognized as one of Colorado’s Fastest Growing Small Private Companies

Lakewood, CO, July 13, 2007 — Spatial Business Systems Inc. announces that the Denver Business Journal has listed the company as one of the Fastest Growing Small Private Companies in Colorado.  The research performed by the Journal is based on three-year revenue growth of Colorado-based companies. 

“We are grateful to everyone who has helped to play a part in us receiving this recognition.” said Dennis F. Beck, president, Spatial Business Systems.  “This is all possible because of the excellent customers, employees and business partners that have supported our company as we have grown over the last several years.”

Spatial Business Systems Announces Strategic Business Relationship with Fichtner Group

Spatial technology leaders enter into global pact to deliver geo-enabled business solutions

Lakewood, CO, May 14, 2007 — Spatial Business Systems Inc. announces that they have entered into a strategic business relationship with Fichtner Group of Stuttgart, Germany.  The broad agreement includes joint technology development, resource sharing and business development.  The arrangement also includes an equity investment in Spatial Business Systems, Inc. and the transfer of Fichtner ORACLE Spatial based software and competence to SBS.  As a result of this agreement Spatial Business Systems will be the delivery channel for Fichtner solution offerings on ORACLE Spatial and ORACLE Fusion in North America, Australia and New Zealand. 

“We are extremely pleased that Germany’s largest independent engineering firm and a world-renowned implementer of Oracle Spatial solutions has chosen to invest in Spatial Business Systems as their partner in the North American and Australian markets.” said Dennis F. Beck, president, Spatial Business Systems.  “We are very enthusiastic to be able to deliver Fichtner’s world-class service offerings and software solutions to the markets we serve.  Together we are able to provide highly valued business solutions that use spatial technologies to meet the needs of utility, rail, telecommunications and government organizations.”

“Our new relationship will allow organizations in the US and Australian markets to elevate their use of spatial technologies to solve strategic business problems” states Michael Wilfer, Managing Director of Fichtner Consulting & IT.  “By spatially enabling business applications we are able to leverage all forms of data across a business enterprise, providing highly valuable business tools to users and adding a competitive edge to the business performance.”

Key elements of the business relationship include: 

Joint Technology Development

Spatial Business Systems will jointly work with Fichtner Group to enhance the GeoXtension software offerings.  Key areas of emphasis will include enterprise integration, spatial interoperability and enhancements to support the application requirements of the markets served by SBS.  

Technical Resource Sharing

Fichtner Group and Spatial Business Systems, Inc. will cross-train and share technical resources to provide integrated solutions based on Oracle Spatial and related applications to support joint project activities.  The combined offerings will also provide world-class services offerings for the integration of spatial solutions with enterprise resource planning applications. 

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About Spatial Business Systems Inc.
Spatial Business Systems Inc. is a premier provider of advanced IT solutions specializing in the integration of spatial information with traditional information systems.  Headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, the company is staffed with a professional consulting team, which has over 100 years of experience in the application of information technologies to solve the unique needs of managing spatial data.

About Fichtner Group,
Established in 1922, Fichtner has evolved into Germany's largest independent firm of consulting engineers of international standing.  The Fichtner Group has more than 1,200 employees worldwide, including experienced engineers, economists, management and IT consultants in a wide variety of specialized fields.  Fichtner Group provides a unique, comprehensive interdisciplinary range of consultancy services for public and private-sector infrastructure service providers such as utilities, rail and government. 

Spatial Business Systems Announces Version 2.0 of the Smallworld Plug-in for FME

High performance Smallworld translation tool adds several new features

Lakewood, CO, August 18, 2006 — Spatial Business Systems Inc. announces version 2.0 of the Smallworld Plug-in for FME, a high-performance data translation product that can be used to extract and load data from GE Smallworld to numerous other geographic information system (GIS) products via Safe Software’s Feature Manipulation Engine (FME).

“With dozens of installations around the world the Smallworld Plug-in for FME has become a highly proven solution for translating data in and out of Smallworld GIS”, remarked Dennis Beck, President of Spatial Business Systems, Inc.  “This new version supports several more advanced translation requirements that have been identified by our user community and now supports Safe Software’s SpatialDirect for browser-based Smallworld data translation.”

Version 2 offers the following new features: 

·         Support for 3D coordinates

·         Product level support for ESRI Data Interoperability Extensions

·         Support for Safe Software’s Spatial Direct Product and FME 2006 GB

·         Support for Smallworld EXTDB Collections (i.e. Oracle Tables)

·         Support datasets connected via Smallworld SOMS

·         Click-through licensing

·         Numerous quality improvements

Additional information can be found by clicking FME Plugin, or by sending an inquiry to

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Spatial Business Systems Announces the Smallworld Integration Server for ESRI

New product offering allows ArcGIS products to connect to GE Smallworld’s VMDS database

Lakewood, CO, April 24, 2006 — Spatial Business Systems Inc. announces a next-generation solution to integrate ESRI’s ArcGIS software products to Smallworld GIS.  The server-based solution allows for high-performance, dynamic access to Smallworld’s VMDS database.   This enables a truly open and seamless operating environment for read-write access to Smallworld-based geospatial data. 

“The Smallworld Integration Server is an exciting new development that extends our deep experience in GIS integration to those organizations that need access to their Smallworld-based GIS systems from ESRI ArcGIS software,” said Dennis F. Beck, president, Spatial Business Systems.  “The solution dynamically reads Smallworld from a new ESRI Extension and requires minimal customization or experience with Smallworld GIS to get started.” 

Smallworld Integration Server has been developed as an ESRI extension and thus supports a wide range of ESRI product offerings including ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox, ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS.

The Smallworld Integration Server for ESRI is currently available to qualified organizations on a limited-availability basis and will be generally available during June 2006.  More information can be obtained by contacting Spatial Business Systems at any link here. 

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 Spatial Business Systems Inc. Launches New IT Services Consulting Practice 

Lakewood, CO-Spatial Business Systems Inc. announced that it has established a new consulting practice within the company dedicated to general IT consulting for small to mid sized businesses.  Services provided include firewall setup, email system support, spam filtering, software updates, removal of Spyware, hardware/software installation, virus protection, network setup and troubleshooting, system security setup, wireless network installation, remote monitoring, backup and recovery services, user support and mentoring and remote access solutions.  The current focus will be to provide services in the greater Denver area.  The new division will be led by Mr. Allen Wagner.   

"We are very excited to have this opportunity to diversify our business as we move into this very important, high-growth service area for our clients.  It is particularly gratifying that we have gotten off to a quick start by already providing these top notch Information Technology services to two new clients in the Denver area." said Allen Wagner, Manager of IT Services, Spatial Business Systems. 

"We are very pleased to have Allen Wagner on board to lead this important segment of our business” said Dennis Beck, President of Spatial Business Systems.  The IT Services Practice fulfills an important need to those organizations that need “big company expertise”.   It is also very complementary to the work we are doing to keep the geographic information systems (GIS) of many of our North American blue-chip companies up and running.  Click here to learn more!

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