SuperMap

SuperMap

Company type	Public
Industry	Software Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Founded	Beijing, China PR (1997)
Key people	Zhong Ershun, Founder/Chairman; Song Guanfu, Founder/President
Products	SuperMap GIS, SuperMap iDesktop, SuperMap iObjects, SuperMap iServer, SuperMap iMobile, SuperMap iClient
Revenue	50 million USD year 2014
Number of employees	2,000 (China)
Website	www.supermap.com/en/

SuperMap is a Geographic Information System (GIS) software products and services provider and IT enterprise in Asia. The headquarters is in Beijing, China. The company was founded in 1997. It has over 20 branch offices in China and one office in Tokyo, Japan. SuperMap has developed lots of agencies and partners all over the world including South Korea, Malaysia, etc. There are more than 2,000 employees working in SuperMap as of 1 July 2016. In 2009, SuperMap was listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange of China (300036.SZ). In 2014 revenues were about $50 million.

Introduction

SuperMap was founded in 1997 under the support from Chinese Academy of Sciences, SuperMap is headquartered in Beijing, China, and has established companies in Hong Kong and Tokyo for international business development. SuperMap has developed agencies and partners all over the world including South Korea, Malaysia, etc.

SuperMap develops and provides GIS platforms and solutions for Smart City, Land Management, Environmental Protection, Public Service, Statistics GIS, Real Estate, Facility Management and Urban Management, etc.

SuperMap applies a variety of information technologies to improve geospatial implementation in GIS and IT applications. SuperMap GIS is widely used in various fields.

Company Culture

Mission

Innovating IT Value with Geo-Intelligence

Vision

To be the global leading GIS

Values

Honest, credible, responsible and win-for-all

Spirit

Innovation – Make Impossible Possible

Execution – Make Ideal Reality

Learning – From Outstanding to Excellence

SuperMap GIS

SuperMap GIS is developed by SuperMap Software Co., Ltd and it is a complete integration of a series of GIS platform software, including Desktop GIS, Service GIS, Component GIS and Mobile GIS platforms and spatial data production, processing and management tools. Through continuous technological innovation, market exploring and experiences accumulation, SuperMap GIS has constructed a good GIS software brand with full angle, and strong functions which can meet different requirements for a wide range of industries,

The main product series now are SuperMap 8C and SuperMap 7C, which are:

Desktop GIS - iDesktop

Cloud GIS application server - iServer

GIS portal platform -iPortal

GIS distributor server - iExpress

GIS environment deployment - iCloudManager

Development platform - iObjects

Mobile GIS - iMobile

History

1992-1993, the company founder, Dr. Zhong Ershun found that a lot of governmental organizations were paying a lot of money for buying expensive GIS software from oversea producers. He also noticed that GIS is only applied by a few governmental institutions and mainly operated by professional geographers. He thought that GIS shall not be monopolized and it shall be more popularly applied not only by geographers but also for enterprises and even publics. During that time, Dr. Zhong and his team decided to develop our own GIS software.

1994-1996, Dr. Zhong's team developed the first version of SuperMap GIS, it was an ActiveX based GIS SDK and first named to ActiveMap. It was the first most complete component based GIS which not only provides Map control, but also 3D Map control and Layout control, etc.

1997-1999, SuperMap Technologies, Inc. was founded. The product was renamed to SuperMap and was successfully applied in the Hong Kong Integrated GIS project and several Land Information Systems in different municipalities of China.

2000, the first commercial version of SuperMap GIS products - SuperMap Objects 2000 was successfully released. Application developing company started to buy SuperMap and developed all kinds of GIS applications. At the same year, SuperMap Japan was founded in Tokyo, Japan.

2001, an upgrade version of SuperMap Objects was released (V2.0). Besides, more new products were developed and released, including eSuperMap, SuperMap IS and SuperMap Deskpro and SuperMap SDX. SuperMap Product line became complete and started to support Oracle and SQL Server through SDX technology. In Japan, SuperMap released the first Japanese version.

2002, More applications were developed with SuperMap GIS by SuperMap and our partners. SuperMap started to develop the Universal GIS products, which is targeted to support J2EE and .NET.

2003, SuperMap GIS 2003 (V4.0) series were released. During the SARS time, SuperMap helped the government do better decisions for defeating the SARS and received good reputation and better market recognition. SuperMap became the second GIS brand in Chinese Market.

2004, SuperMap was listed as one of the TOP 5 GIS brands in Japan market according to a British company's investigation.

2005, SuperMap GIS V5.0 and SuperMap UGC V1.0 were released. A complete English version of SuperMap GIS V5.0 was first released, too. SuperMap was listed as the Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific by Deloitte.

2006, SuperMap GIS V5.2 were released in three languages (Chinese, Japanese and English).

2007, the International Business Division was set up dedicating to international marketing promotion and sales. GeoInt and GEO Solutions became SuperMap Master Distributor for Nordic and Botswana respectively. The company CEO Dr. Song was honored as Top 10 IT Leaders of China.

2008, SuperMap Technologies, Inc. changed its name to SuperMap Software Co., Ltd.

2009, SuperMap Software Co., Ltd was public listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange of China (300036.SZ).

2010, SuperMap Software Co., Ltd released the SP1 version of SuperMap GIS 6 in May. Based on the users reports and market investigation, the software functions have been improved and a number of new functions have been added to SuperMap GIS 6 SP1.

2011, with the trust and support from clients and partners, SuperMap grows fast. To keep up with the increasing growth, SuperMap has moved to the new head office.

2012, China Association for Geographic Information Services announced recently on its website that SuperMap GIS 6R(2012) ranked first in the Three-dimensional (3D) GIS Platform Software Testing and Evaluation.

2013, Biennial SuperMap GIS Technology Conference was hold successfully again this year. As an outstanding GIS platform provider in China, SuperMap showed the improvement and innovation in GIS products made during the last two years to the public. 

2014, WGDC 2014 was held in the National Conference Center with the theme “Fusion, Open, and Intelligence”. SuperMap, the largest GIS platform vendor in Asia, with the internationally leading technology, brought advanced products SuperMap GIS 7C to fully participated in this event. 

2015, SuperMap GIS Technical Conference (STC) 2015 was held in Beijing International Conference Center at 10th-11th, September, 2015. There were more than 5000 attendees and more than 50 different industry reports. With the theme of “Different GIS, different value”, the conference presented the newest GIS technology, leading GIS platforms, and rich industry solutions.