Hats off this week to EarthSoft, winner of a 2010 Business Achievement Award in the information technology (IT) category for significant growth in revenues, a rapidly growing client base, and several innovative product introductions. EarthSoft’s hosting revenues grew 187% in 2010, as more clients continued to sign up for EQuIS Online, EarthSoft’s cloud-computing product. Maintenance revenues, approximately one-third of EarthSoft’s overall revenue, grew by 13% in 2010. EarthSoft released several new products, including the Environmental Data Gathering Engine (EDGE), EQuIS for ArcGIS Server (for web GIS), Sample Planning Module (SPM), EQuIS for AutoCAD, and an updated EQuIS supporting ArcGIS version 10. A new Vapor Air EDD was also released. New U.S. clients in 2010 included the State of Iowa, Pace Laboratories, SGS, Louis Berger, Matrix Solutions, and many others. New Australian clients included Golder, URS, 4T, and Syrinx. New European clients included ARCADIS, ERM, and Golder. Worley Parsons in United Arab Emirates, the City of Tacoma, Chesapeake Energy, Maul Foster & Alongi, Weiss Associates, PPM Consultants, Gannett-Fleming, TEI, First Environment, IBM, BASF, Weston, and others were also added to EarthSoft’s large client list.
(Source: Environmental Business Journal)