Marybeth Vargha GIS Coordinator - Otsego County, NY

"It took me just two days using Freeance to build a custom application that fit our needs. When I showed my boss how easy it was to use Freeance and the quality of the application I produced, he said I just saved the County approximately $10,000 in consulting fees with just one application. Between building unlimited custom applications using live data base connections, I see many possibilities for future uses of Freeance."

Matt Hartung - GIS Manager with over 10 years experience - Charlottesville, VA.

"When a TDC technology sales person first contacted me about their software it was described as the "best software in the world for your ArcIMS". I said to myself, "Yeah right, I have heard this spiel before". Well, I am here to tell you TDC Group delivers. Freeance software exceeded my expectations. Freeance support and training is awesome and TDC really stands behind their product. My only regret is that it took me awhile to come around to buy the software. I spent countless hours trying to program my own applications when I could have met the needs of my organization more quickly with Freeance. Freeance provides out of the box functionality that took me hours to figure out how to do on my own. Freeance is the perfect tool for getting ArcIMS applications out to your organization quickly, and to find out what works for your organization and what doesn't. It's the perfect tool to get your feet wet with ArcIMS."

Pat Larson - GIS Director - Grand Island, NE

"Freeance provides a powerful set of tools that accesses and unleashes the power of ArcIMS. We have used ArcIMS for 4-5 years, during that time we have accumulated many idea's on what we wanted to develop in ArcIMS that did not come to fruition due to time and programming skills.  Freeance provided the tools necessary to make those idea's become a reality within days not years. 

Freeance extracts the value out of your ArcIMS investment.  Within 1 day of getting started with Freeance, I built my first application and now have a total of 7 applications that took days, not months, or years to build."

Statement from a Freeance user that has been doing GIS for 20 years in local government

Rod Brown  GIS Director - Spartanburg County SC

"GIS in local government always comes back to justifying the expense of GIS.

Freeance is like a secret weapon in the budget wars. First it allows you to put GIS in the hands of unsophisticated users by way of their browser. Then it allows you to make job specific applications without the aid of full time programmers.

Before Freeance, all you had was a promise of things to come. You had a very large investment in ArcGIS, ArcSDE, and all the time and money invested in your enterprise geodatabase. ArcIMS had the potential to release that investment to the world; but, by itself, it was just another promise, maybe even a tease of things that “could” be done. The problem was for smaller governments they did not have the money to hire specialized programmers or consultants to develop a multitude of web apps that ArcIMS required.

Freeance takes a couple of days to learn and only a few hours to build professional looking applications. Right now our County Manager and his assistants and department heads use our Freeance driven applications. Our property appraisers and assessment staff use it constantly. GIS is now an indispensable tool because it is now out of the GIS Office and on users desktops. Freeance is like that picture that is worth a thousand words. Even our commissioners can now see what GIS does, making them feel a lot better about years of investment that used to require some very difficult justification.

So if you think that Freeance may be a bit pricey, all I have to say is that it is the best investment I have made for our GIS program to date, and is dirt cheap when compared to the alternatives."

Here is what an H T E client that uses Freeance to connect to their IBM DB2 says:

Dan Allee  GIS Coordinator - City of Tyler, TX

“Freeance was a very quick solution to all of our ArcIMS needs. After going through the Freeance training, and taking advantage of the powerful tools Freeance has to offer, we were able to deploy our solution city wide within a week.”

“I had talked to other entities that bid out solutions similar to what we wanted. Bids came back to those entities around sixty thousand (60,000) dollars. Freeance gave us a solution that could be implemented within a week instead of months for probably less than ten percent of the cost of developing our own solution.”

“For the City of Tyler, Freeance was a wise and most cost effective solution.”

Gerald Lee  GIS Coordinator - City of Murfreesboro TN

"I absolutely believe this is going to be right up there with sliced bread and bottled beer. I love the ease with which changes and updates are implemented. If I can do it, anybody can. I have made 8 customized websites already for our City, which would probably have costs of, at least $5,000.00-$10,000.00 each, not to mention any other ongoing maintenance fees. It continues to save us time & money. Everyone that uses their particular site loves the customization ability that it affords. Almost whatever they want to see and/or query on, can be accomplished, really in no time at all. Freeance has been absolute web-mapping "manna" for me. Also, customer service has been very knowledgeable and prompt. I couldn't ask for anything more. I really appreciate the professionalism."

"Thanks again for a very impressive product."

Matt Morris, Engineering/GIS Technician - Augusta County Service Authority

"Freeance has enabled us to increase our speed and efficiency in providing our GIS information to all of our employees who have access to our intranet. It has saved the Engineering department many hours in going to the map room to pull hard copy plans and maps. We are still developing our site but are pleased with the progress in speed and efficiency we’ve made already. The ACSA is looking forward to future releases and the increased functionality they will provide."

Jeff W. Schroeder, Program Manager GIS - Macomb County, Michigan

"Utilizing Freeance to develop our intranet based ArcIMS map site has saved us between $10-15K in technical consulting fees. "

Jerry McRay, Chief Technology Officer - Alabama EMA

"We are using your product more and more. It works as advertised!"

Patrick Fly, GIS Programmer - Frederick County, VA

"Freeance web service is very user friendly and easy to use, the parcel queries are painless. End user feedback using Freeance has been very positive."

Marcus LeMasters, GIS Director - Frederick County, VA

"Since publishing our web-site using Freeance, many of our customers, including the Census Bureau have stated . "What a great site, its so simple and easy to use."

Jim Nolan - Jefferson County, AL Storm Water Management Authority

"Freeance installed so smoothly, I thought something was wrong."

"We primarily purchased Freeance to help with our member cities who can't afford a full blown GIS application. We can provide some pretty thorough GIS functionality for them and it's fairly intuitive to use."

"I can't use enough superlatives - The software is intuitive, the support is excellent and they even contact you to see if there's something they might do to improve... I've never seen such personal support!"

Ken Brown - GIS Manager, City of Coconut Creek Florida

"I can honestly say that Freeance has the best technical support of any software product that our organization has ever purchased. Not only has TDC Group quickly resolved every technical issue and ensured a rapid learning curve, but they have also been hungry for new ideas on ways to enhance the Freeance product in future releases."

"Freeance has liberated us from the cycle of hiring consultants to customize and update our ArcIMS web site through programming. We can now link to new database tables, create new searches, and add various map functions (i.e., Buffering), as easily as adding a new layer to our ArcIMS Map Service.

Thank you TDC Group for bringing Freeance into being!"