After some years of working with ArcInfo, NAVIGATE became a business partner of ESRI Australia in 1997. Our initial focus was in the Defence space, but we now concentrate on supporting all the ESRI core technology. Our company also supports overseas ESRI business partners who develop product on the ESRI core and whose products are used in the region (FME, IMF, GoSync, Feature Analyst).

We specialise in in the large scale, geospatial data management with SDE and geodatabase models on all the mainstream databases platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, Informix and DB2. Our GIS Lab includes ArcGIS, SDE, ArcIMS, the DDK, the Geocoder Development Kit and MapObjects software and we are able to develop and support all these technlogies on customer sites.

In 2002, Navigate developed ArcCensus and School Census in ESRI technology and expanded these products into ArcCensus Enterprise and WebCensus. Our new (mid 2004) AusAddress product is similarly an ArcGIS extension and datapack.

In recent years Navigate has specialised in the creation and support of datasets for ESRI clients with the development of SDE models for the Sensis, Census and PSMA datasets. We now have developed G-NAF for ArcGIS and further developed the ArcGIS Geocoding capability with AusAddress and ArcGIS extension that comes with data and an interface to help the user work with the national address data.

Navigate has also just completed development of the Business Analyst 8.3 for Australia by incorporating several key demographic, spatial and business information datasets into the ESRI Business Analyst product. Navigate was the first (and currently the only) organisation outside of the USA to achieve this localisation.

In 2003/2004 Navigate was a beta program member for ArcIMS, ArcGIS and the Interoperability Extension.