Sandy, UT — Azteca Systems, Inc. extends congratulations to the 2006 recipients of the ESRI Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) awards at the recent ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA. As the leading provider of GIS-centric asset maintenance management solutions, Azteca Systems is excited to recognize Horry County, SC for receiving the award.

The ESRI SAG award recognizes ESRI customers that demonstrate outstanding use of GIS within their organization. Horry County is set apart because of their enterprise-wide, approach in deploying GIS-centric applications for use with the county. Cityworks was the first GIS-centric application deployed in Horry County in 2005. With both the county and the city of North Myrtle Beach using Cityworks, service requests are sent from consistent SDE GIS databases, enhancing the use of GIS in their respective organizations. When the county became a Cityworks user, the initial project plan was to deploy the software into stormwater. Today however, the county has expanded Cityworks to several other departments and is interacting with cities within Horry County. Their next planned implementation will be within the administrative departments of the county.

“We are very excited that Horry County was recognized by ESRI for Special Achievement in GIS,” said Brian Haslam, President of Azteca Systems. “We want to congratulate all of those who were recognized as SAG award winners, but are particularly pleased that Horry County has achieved such impressive and applaudable use of GIS within their organization. Horry County’s use of GIS demonstrates the benefits and success of a GIS-based approach and proves the endless possibilities of how organizations can utilize GIS to fit into what they most need.”