July 17, 2008 - eSpatial, a Global enterprise geospatial software and technology company and Ação Informática, a leading Brazilian Distributor, today announced the signing of an exclusive Reseller Agreement. Under the agreement, Ação Informática will act as master distributor for iSMART®, eSpatial's leading GeoSpatial software suite for development of integrated, enterprise grade spatially enabled applications, throughout the Brazilian Marketplace and South America Region.

Ação Informática has over 20 years in the technology market, being recognized as the major distributor for IBM and Oracle in South America . The company is Certified Partner for Novell, Red Hat amongst others. Its company policy is to add value to the growth and competitiveness of their clients. The diversity of the solutions offered is a characteristic as a Distributor of value added products & services. eSpatial's iSMART® will be offered as part of Ação Informática's portfolio of products.

eSpatial's iSMART® supports a number of deployment models which include Pure Web and Customized Client within a scalable, role-based and secure environment. The architectural features delivered with iSMART® address standard IT requirements for the deployment of enterprise business applications. iSMART® provides an ideal enterprise grade hosted services delivery platform for geospatial applications. Delivered applications and services can also be provided to conform with the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services standards.

Philip O'Doherty, CEO, eSpatial commented, "Brazil & the South American regions are demonstrating rapid growth in the adoption of geo-spatial technology, therefore this is a great opportunity for eSpatial and we're excited at the prospect of extending our reach of the iSMART® product suite".

Vitor Luiz Schmidt , Vice President of Operation for Ação Group commented, "We're delighted to announce eSpatial's iSMART® as part of our offerings and look forward to delivering solutions that are rapidly developed, cost effective, easy to deploy and can integrate with customers' existing line of business systems. Ação Informática is committed to providing reliable alternative solutions to our distribution channels and we look forward to offering eSpatial's products and applications to existing and new customers".

About Ação Informática

Founded in 1987, the Ação Informática is a leader in distribution of IT infrastructure solutions hardware and software as servers, storage, security and backup solutions. The company has the main certifications of IBM and Oracle with a channel business network composed by 1500 partners covering Brazil and South America region. The Ação Group, in addition to the Ação Informática, consists of the divisions Ação Sistemas (Human Resources Solutions), AçãoGeo (GIS Solutions & Secure Networks) and Aktio (IT Infrastructure Solutions / Argentina and Uruguay ).

About eSpatial

eSpatial is a global software and consulting company specializing in GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and Location Services. eSpatial leverages ten years of Oracle Spatial experience to deliver sophisticated and powerful web applications. We have a consistent track record of cost-effective solutions that deliver significant return on investment for our customers. iSMART®, our award winning software suite, is the most comprehensive solution to complement Oracle's Spatial technology platform and is fast becoming the first choice for Oracle Spatial.
eSpatial enables customers to realize the potential in on-line mapping and location applications that support and integrate with real-world internal and external business systems. We have a global partner and customer-base that is growing rapidly. This is testament to our commitment to flexibility and responsiveness in ensuring faster time to market for enterprise grade system deployment.

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