Geocortex Blog

Discussion Forum Superheroes

As part of our new and improved Geocortex Support Center launch last April, we challenged forum members to participate in our Discussion Forums to share knowledge and help build a strong, vibrant user community. We established prizes to acknowledge key contributors in a tangible way by offering $1000 (MVP) and $500 (runner-up) in support/training/services credits to the two community members that we deemed most helpful to their peers between the launch and September 1st. 

Bravo to our MVPs

We’ve gone through the stats and the Geocortex Support Team has cast their votes. Congratulations to Gareth Finney, our MVP and winner of the $1000 prize. Coming in not far behind, a thank-you to Sonia Dickerson, who has also been a big contributor and has been selected for the $500 prize. Special thanks to you both for actively contributing valuable knowledge to the discussion forums! 

Gareth Finney (MVP) - Spatial Consultant - Department of Sustainability and Environment - Melbourne, Australia

Sonia Dickerson (MVP Runner-Up) - EGIS Developer - Minnesota Department of Transportation

Although Gareth and Sonia are being specifically acknowledged, we’d like to thank everyone who has been contributing to the Geocortex Discussion Forums. We’re really starting to see an awesome community of Geocortex users helping one another succeed with web-based mapping emerge. Together we can continue to build a great resource for people to help each other find answers for common questions and overcome roadblocks.

But let’s keep the conversations going!

We are pleased to announce that we are offering a second challenge round which will run from September 14, 2011 to February 14, 2012.

We are offering the same prize options as before and will use the same participation criteria to recognize super achievers. Please review the original Announcement in the Discussion Forums for background information. We hope this additional incentive will allow the superpowers lurking in everyone to shine through. Winners will be announced shortly after Valentine’s Day 2012.

Latitude is working more and more with distributors to represent and implement our Geocortex technology overseas (we actually hosted our Geocortex Business Partner Summit in Victoria last week – it’s always great to get together in person). As part of this strategy I’m pleased to welcome two new distributors in Europe.

1Spatial is now the Geocortex reseller for  the United Kingdom and Ireland. 1Spatial has been serving public and private sector clients for more than 40 years, and as they continue to build out a practice helping organizations that make extensive use of Esri technology, they determined that Geocortex can help Esri clients achieve their objectives in a unique and compelling way. And we determined they get it, and are good at what they do.

Informi GIS A/S is now the Geocortex reseller in The Kingdom of Denmark. Informi is also Esri’s official distributor in Denmark, and like other Esri distributors who resell Geocortex technology, they determined that Geocortex technology is complementary to Esri’s core ArcGIS Server offerings. I had the opportunity to visit their offices in Copenhagen last January; they’re a great group of people with a top-notch reputation.

You can read more about our business partners here. 1Spatial and Informi will undoubtedly do some excellent work in the months and years ahead to introduce Geocortex technology to people in their countries, and it’s a pleasure to have this opportunity to work side by side.

We are pleased to announce that Geocortex Essentials 3.4.2 is now generally available to customers.

This is a maintenance release to address some known issues in the product. In addition to our regular bug fixes we’ve paid particular attention to REST endpoint performance and improved support for secured ArcGIS Server services.

Geocortex customers can visit the Geocortex Support Center to download this update and product release notes.