Lancaster, Pennsylvania (September 1, 2010) -- geographIT^® is celebrating its twenty year anniversary since its founding on August 6, 1990 as Advanced Technology Solutions Inc. When business partners Ashis Pal and Bruce Stauffer started the company, there were only two other firms in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania offering professional GIS services. Since its inception, the company's core specialization continues to be offering comprehensive professional GIS consulting services and developing innovative cost effective GIS solutions for state and local governments, utilities, and the private sector.

"We decided to rebrand as geographIT in 2007 in order to better align our corporate identity with our market specialization", said Ashis Pal, President. "Apparently rebranding has been good for our business because geographIT has been recognized by the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing privately owned small businesses every year since we rebranded. However, we credit our long term success to our many loyal clients who repeatedly retain us for their GIS projects because they have come to trust the quality and timeliness of the services we deliver."

"GIS technology sure has changed quite a bit since our founding twenty years ago," said Bruce Stauffer, Vice President. "It has been thrilling to witness advances in technology which in turn have spawned a rapidly growing geospatial marketplace with increasing opportunities to creatively apply GIS technology to deliver cost effective solutions. Twenty years ago, there were few solicitations for GIS services and a lot of client education was required prior to a contract. Today, the numbers of GIS solicitations are numerous, and potential clients are much more knowledgeable about what they want to achieve with GIS technology."