Singapore (18 February 2009) – The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has awarded the tender for the design, development and maintenance of a government-wide intelligent map system.

2 The tender, which closed on 17 November, includes development and maintenance of the system. SLA had received 4 bids from major IT service providers comprising both local and regional companies, with track records in geographic information systems (GIS) solutions. After careful evaluation of the proposals, SLA has awarded the project to NIIT Technologies Pte Ltd, a global IT solutions provider.

3 NIIT Technologies, together with its subsidiary ESRI (India), and in partnership with ESRI (Singapore), has proposed a solution based on ESRI ArcGIS Server 9.3 and Microsoft Dot Net Technology for the development of the intelligent map system.

4 Speaking on the award of the project, NIIT-GIS Chief Operating Officer Dr Mukund Rao said "NIIT-GIS is proud to be associated with this unique intelligent map system of SLA. We will closely work with ESRI Singapore and will bring its ESRI India strengths to this project. NIIT-GIS is committed to the success of this project and would deliver a world-class solution by crafting and designing the best of the GIS solution for it.

5 Mr Kailash Agarwal, Asia Pacific Head – GIS Business, of NIIT Technologies, Singapore, added that this award is reflection of the single-minded effort and commitment of NIIT to expand our unique GIS solutions offerings within the region by working with local ESRI Distributors.

6 SLA’s director of Land Asset Management Services and Land Information Centre, Mr Ng Siau Yong said: “The award of this tender to NIIT Technologies brings us one step closer to our aim of creating a common and consistent map interface for government agencies to build their own map services using an Application Programming Interface. SLA expects that NIIT Technologies will be able to come up with an exceptional solution that will bring in unique capabilities of intelligent map services for Singaporeans. The public will soon be able to tap on rich government content and mash it up with their own collection of spatial information to create services and to support enterprises’ business needs, and individuals’ personal needs.”

7 The project development is expected to take about 9 months to complete, and will be launched in early 2010.

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The Singapore Land Authority
18 February 2009

About SLA
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) is responsible for the administration and management of State land and properties. It is also the national land registration and land boundary survey authority.

SLA’s Land Information Centre (LIC) manages a land data repository and data exchange among public agencies. SLA also licenses land data for both online and printed street maps. It is also a key agency in a whole-of-government effort to establish a national spatial data infrastructure. Digitized information on Singapore's roads and MRT networks, properties boundary, outlines of public housing and industrial buildings are collated in Singapore's Land Data Hub. The digitised land information is disseminated to the public through the following services.

SLA provides free online map services at http://www.map.gov.sg/ for the general public. Such free services include street maps, State land ownership searches, and wireless hotspots searches.

SLA’s Integrated Land Information Service (INLIS) provides a one-stop internet portal which gives information on land matters such as road line plans, survey plans, and boundaries of properties. In addition, INLIS also provides information on property such as ownership of property, property transaction history, primary school listing and surrounding amenities.

For more corporate information, visit www.sla.gov.sg.

About ESRI India
ESRI India (NIIT GIS Limited), a GIS Solutions company that endeavors to provide end-to-end GIS based solutions ranging from software products, application development, training, data conversion and technical support.ESRI India (NIIT GIS Limited) today enjoys market leadership in the field of GIS with largest installation base across different vertical segments in India, Nepal and BhutanFormed in 1996 as a joint venture between ESRI Inc. (US) and NIIT Technologies (India). USA based ESRI Inc.

NIIT Technologies is one of India's leading IT companies which started with IT education in 1981 and has since diversified into other aspects of software including development, marketing and support. NIIT GIS Limited is a subsidiary of NIIT Technologies, ESRI India provides to its customers the complete range of GIS solutions from ESRI Inc., GIS database design and organization, GIS application development, developing Enterprise-GIS solutions and education services. The coming together of the world's finest GIS company with India's leading software services company offers us the advantage of combining best technology with sound development and quality processes, enabling ESRI India to emerge as a leader in providing software products, path breaking geospatial application and data solutions, training and support. Our operations are ISO certified. ESRI India is headquartered in New Delhi, India and operates through multiple Sales and Support offices in India, US and Singapore.