Timmons Group to Integrate Trimble Mapping & GIS Technology with TG LoGIStics suite and ArcGIS Server Mobile Applications

Richmond, VA – March 3, 2008 – Timmons Group, a leader in geospatial consulting services, announced today that a business partner agreement with Trimble to resell and distribute selected Mapping & Geographic Information System (GIS) products, including the GPS PathfinderÒ Pro series receivers, GeoExplorerÒ series of rugged GPS handhelds, rugged Trimble® Recon™ handhelds, and Trimble Recon GPS series systems. Timmons Group will also provide Trimble hardware and software as part of a complete enterprise data management solution for the firm’s TG LoGIStics product line of solutions, including field-based data management solutions for land records, E-911 addressing, utility inventory and our ArcGIS Server based mobile applications for Land Management agencies serving the Forestry, Natural Resources, Transportation and other State and Local Government applications.

 Timmons Group specializes in developing Enterprise Land Management applications utilizing ESRI’s ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Mobile and SQL Server Compact technologies. These applications are designed to facilitate the creation, editing, validation, storage and management of spatial data elements. The incorporation of web services adhering to the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) allows clients to have access to a suite of geospatial functionality throughout land management agencies, providing the added benefit of a reusable design model to be leveraged by future applications.

 Timmons Group also provides embedded Trimble GPS functionality to our TG LoGIStics Products within ESRI’s ArcGIS environment, using a combination of standard technologies, including MS Visual Studio, MS Ink Technology, ESRI ArcObjects, and Trimble Pathfinder Tools Software Development Kit (SDK). This “plug-in” functionality to the ArcGIS extensions handles all communications between the GPS receiver and the application, including the configuration and supply of real-time differential corrections from radio beacons and satellites. 

 “Timmons Group has been integrating Trimble GPS capabilities within our GIS field applications for nearly ten years”, Randy Trott, LS, Principal with Timmons Group’s Technology Services Sector. “We have always considered Trimble’s product line the most robust and accurate GPS solutions available in the GIS marketplace, and as a Trimble user, we have developed field solutions that have mapped over one million assets. As Timmons Group has emerged as a recognized leader in ArcGIS Server Mobile solutions and developed our TG LoGIStics product solutions that continue to cater to an increasingly more mobile workforce, it simply made sense to formalize our longstanding commitment to Trimble and their superior product offerings.” 

About Trimble

Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics, Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the field and the back office. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Trimble has a worldwide presence with more than 2,800 employees in over 18 countries.

 For more information, visit:  www.trimble.com.