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Release 9

The World's Fastest and Most Powerful GIS

Manifold^® Release 9 provides the world's most sophisticated and most powerful GIS, the only GIS that automatically is fully parallel to use all of your computer for dramatically faster performance. Enjoy life with super-fast GIS and. Say good-bye to slow, non-parallel GIS that crashes on big jobs.

• Parallel Power: Release 9 is built upon Manifold's massively parallel Radian spatial platform, by far the world's richest, fastest and most powerful spatial data engineering engine. Radian technology guarantees phenomenal power and speed even with big data and all with bulletproof reliability.
• Connect to everything: Manifold works with data from enterprise class DBMS installations, web server data sources, file databases and every format encountered in spatial engineering and GIS.
• Everything you need for GIS: From all the GIS basics to thousands of capabilities for expert work, you can do almost any GIS task imaginable with ease, power and unmatched accuracy.
• Explore data: Visualize an unlimited range of tables, vector data, drawings, maps, raster data and images to see data in context with on-the-fly visualization.
• Superior ETL: Manifold's smooth, totally integrated visualizations, including on-the-fly previews, provide faster, more reliable ETL, with never a mistake from flying blind.
• Parallel SQL: Manipulate any data, transform it and analyze it using the full power of automatically parallel SQL together with hundreds of spatial engineering functions.
• Spatial Mastery: Manifold knows more coordinate systems than any other spatial engineering or GIS tool. Whether it is EPSG, custom coordinate systems from legacy GIS, or specialized government-sponsored high-precision systems, Manifold knows it all.
• Superior Data Science: The Radian database engine inside every Manifold installation powers superior data science workflows by combining superior SQL, superior analytics to provide better insights faster, using either point-and-click dialogs or unlimited SQL.
• Ease of Use: Manifold automates with point-and-click ease what would take decades to program manually, the automatic, optimized parallelization of virtually all functions to multiple CPUs, multiple CPU cores, multiple GPUs and potentially thousands of GPU cores.
• Lowest cost of ownership: The fastest, most powerful desktop GIS ever created is now also the world's lowest cost GIS: Only $145 for a fully-paid Manifold Professional license, and not just a lease or subscription. Get thousands of features with speed and the power to easily handle data that totally crushes any other GIS for incredibly low cost of ownership. More modern technology makes that possible.

Nothing else comes close: No other GIS or spatial tool comes remotely close to the vast range of capabilities, capacity, power, performance and quality Manifold provides at one low price.

Editions for Every Need

Release 9 comes in three editions so you can get the lowest cost for the features you need:

• Manifold Release 9 Professional edition provides thousands of features and is perfect for standalone use or as a client in workgroups using Manifold Server. Professional edition is the foundation for high performance, high efficiency, professional GIS work.
• Manifold Release 9 Universal edition includes all Professional features plus Manifold Commander for easy automation of common tasks using command line execution and Windows Task Scheduler. Universal also adds a limited version of Manifold Server to support smaller workgroups. Individuals who are automating tasks will use Universal edition, and smaller workgroups who share data through Manifold Server to simultaneous users will also typically use Universal licenses.
• Manifold Release 9 Server edition includes all Universal features and also adds an unlimited version of Manifold Server, with no limits on connections or simultaneous sessions serving out different data sets. Larger workgroups and organizations of all sizes will use Server licenses to serve shared data outbound to many users.

Rapid Evolution · Free Updates

Cutting Edge builds of Release 9 that are issued every two weeks or so extend the power and feature set of Release 9 with hundreds of additional features every few months. Your Release 9 license enables you to download and utilize all Cutting Edge Release 9 builds to get the very latest upgrades. Cutting Edge builds are open beta builds that allow rapid response to community wishes in Manifold's community-driven engineering process.

Manifold typically issues thousands of improvements at no charge in free updates to licensees. Release 8 included over 5,000 improvements during the product life cycle. Your Release 9 license acquired now will provide access to all free Release 9 updates at full Universal level now and in the future.

Release 9 Home Page

Special Offers

$145 - Manifold Release 9 Professional - Includes all Release 9 features except Manifold Commander and Manifold Server. Single desktop license that enables 64-bit operation in 64-bit Windows systems.

$195 - Manifold Release 9 Universal - Includes all Release 9 Professional features plus two additional major features: Manifold Commander, a console application version of Manifold for automating tasks, and also a limited Manifold Server version for smaller workgroups.

Manifold Commander runs from a command line, and allows running SQL queries within a Manifold project or scripts either within the Manifold project or in external files. It allows launching commands to automatically do work without having to manually launch Manifold and operate it interactively. Using Windows Task Scheduler you can launch tasks using Commander on a regular schedule, such as updating a CSV every night for serving to clients, updating databases, or converting files into different formats.

The limited Manifold Server configuration in Universal edition allows one Server instance per machine launched from a Command Prompt window with a limited number of connections. A universal license is a single desktop license that includes simultaneous interactive use of Manifold 9 along with a Server instance, allowing interactive use at the same time the machine is running as a server. Best buy.

$395 - Manifold Release 9 Server - Includes all Release 9 Universal features and also includes an unlimited Manifold Server version that is perfect for serving larger workgroups or, with more powerful server hardware, entire organizations. Manifold Release 9 Server edition has no limit to the number of Server connections, no limit to the number of Server instances on a server machine, and can launch and to manage Server instances as Windows services.

An unlimited number of connections takes advantage of cost-efficient, many core CPUs that can provide very many threads on server machines at low cost. Single machine license that includes simultaneous interactive use of Manifold 9 along with a Server instances, allowing interactive use at the same time the machine is running as a server. Outstanding value for workgroups and organizations

$225 - Manifold Release 9 Professional + Manifold 8.00 Ultimate x64 - A product bundle that includes both Manifold Release 9 Professional and Manifold 8.00 Ultimate x64 at one low price.

$275 - Manifold Release 9 Universal + Manifold 8.00 Ultimate x64 - A product bundle that includes both Manifold Release 9 Universal and Manifold 8.00 Ultimate x64 at one low price.

$95 - Manifold 8.00 Ultimate x64 - Release 8 is the world's best classic GIS providing seamless desktop, enterprise, programming and web serving GIS in totally integrated product. Get all features of the 8.00 product line at the best price ever.

$145 - SQL for ArcGIS^® Pro - Special introductory offer for SQL for ArcGIS Pro: Save $100 off the regular price of $245. Single desktop license that includes all SQL for ArcGIS Pro features. Requires Esri ArcGIS^® Pro version 2.8 or more recent. Supports both ArcGIS Pro 2.x as well as the new ArcGIS Pro 3.x release. Includes free download of maintenance upgrades. Best buy.

Trade Ins for a Discount

Manifold provides two upgrade options that allow you to trade in a license to get a higher valued product at a discount:

• Upgrade Manifold 9.00 Professional to Manifold 9.00 Universal - Trade in a Manifold 9.00 Professional license to get a Manifold 9.00 Universal license at a discount. After the trade in discount, the cost of the Universal license will be only $100.
• Upgrade Manifold 9.00 Universal to Manifold 9.00 Server - Trade in a Manifold 9.00 Universal license to get a Manifold 9.00 Server license at a discount. After the trade in discount, the cost of the Server license will be only $300.

Licenses cannot be traded in if they were acquired as part of a discounted bundle. For example, a Release 9.00 Professional license acquired as part of a 4x Professional + Server discounted bundle cannot be traded in to get a discount on a Release 9.00 Universal license.

For an illustrated, step-by-step example showing how to take advantage of either of the above trade in offers, see the How to Upgrade page.

Quantity Discounts

$775 - 4x Manifold 9.00 Professional + Manifold 9.00 Server - Perfect for GIS workgroups: Get four Manifold 9.00 Professional Licenses and a Manifold 9.00 Server license for the price of a Manifold 9.00 Universal license. Best buy.

$580 - 5x Manifold 9.00 Professional - Enjoy a 20% discount on five Manifold 9.00 Professional licenses.

$780 - 5x Manifold 9.00 Universal - Enjoy a 20% discount on five Manifold 9.00 Universal licenses.

Release 9 Academic Licenses

New! A generous number of Manifold System Release 9 licenses may be donated at no charge to academic institutions which sponsor the creation of localization files for their national language or for a new language. This is a limited, experimental program. Please contact sales@manifold.net to participate.

Manifold^® Server

Manifold^® Server features are built-in parts of Manifold GIS licenses (Universal or Server editions), with no other purchases or applications required. Server provides two major capabilities:

• New ! Serve Maps to Internet - Serve maps directly to Internet with no need to set up a web server or map server. All you need is a Windows computer and Manifold GIS installed. Creating a map in Manifold automatically creates an Internet web page - no programming required! Manifold is a tiny download, only 31MB, and that include Server built in. That includes everything: No need to download gigabytes of GIS package, plus Internet Information Server or Apache, plus a separate map server. Create a map in Manifold, and that's what you get on the web site. What you see is what you get. Easy!


• Share Projects and Data - Keep projects and data in a centralized machine and share them out to other Manifold users running Manifold as a client. Server is a read-only, multiuser spatial database server for sharing projects and data that is really easy to use. Server is so easy to use that it makes sharing projects and data easier and way more productive for both experts and non-experts alike. Server can share constellations of thousands of project files and the data they contain.

Built into Release 9 Universal - Every Release 9 Universal license includes a limited version of Manifold Server, that can run one session either as a map server or as a data server but not both simultaneously. Installing Release 9 Universal automatically installs the limited version of Server and activating Release 9 Universal automatically activates Server for use on that machine. For only $195 you get both Release 9 and Manifold Server. When you buy Release 9 for $195 you automatically get Manifold Server as well. There is no need to make any additional purchases to get Server.

Unlimited Use with Release 9 Server - Step up to the unlimited version of Manifold Server: Every Release 9 Server license includes a unlimited version of Manifold Server, that can run an unlimited number of simultaneous sessions, including a mix of sessions serving maps to the web or sharing data. Installing Release 9 Server automatically installs the unlimited version of Server and activating Release 9 Server automatically activates Server for unlimited use on that machine. For only $395 you get both Release 9 and Manifold Server. When you buy Manifold 9 Server for $395 you get the unlimited version of Manifold Server, with no limit to connections, no limit to the number of Server instances launched, and the ability to launch Server instances as Windows services.

With either Manifold 9 Universal or Manifold 9 Server, you can use both Release 9 and Server simultaneously on the same machine. With Manifold 9 Server you can even launch multiple Server instances on the same machine, to serve different constellations of data or many different web sites from different projects at the same time from that machine.

See the Manifold Server page for more information.

Manifold^® Commander

New ! Manifold^® Commander is a console application version of Manifold that provides the full range of Manifold query and scripting capabilities from a command line, making it easy to automate tasks.

Commander launches from a command line such as in a Windows Command Prompt window, or in a .bat batch file, or from a Windows PowerShell script, from within Windows Task Manager to automate tasks.  Commander can run either SQL queries or scripts from within a specified .map file, and Commander also can run scripts from a specified script file stored outside a Manifold project. Script in ten different languages!

• Your own Automated Factory - Commander provide an automated production line for accomplishing nearly any GIS, DBMS or ETL task. String together any of hundreds of functions using whatever logic you want in scripts, or take advantage of the higher level functionality you get with SQL that automates routine infrastructure for you. Manifold features like the Transform pane will automatically write SQL that accomplishes what you've set up using point and click templates. It's like being able to tell a factory full of robots what you want them to do.
• Built into Universal and Server Editions - Manifold Release 9 Universal and Server licenses include Manifold Commander. Installing either Release 9 Universal or Release 9 Server automatically installs Manifold Commander. When you buy Release 9 Universal for $195 you automatically get Manifold Commander as well. There is no need to make any additional purchases to get Commander.
• Simultaneous Use with Interactive Sessions - Universal and Server licenses allow simultaneous use of Manifold in an unlimited number of interactive desktop sessions, even while an unlimited number of Manifold Commander sessions can be launched in background. Run automated tasks on the same computer at the same time as you continue to work interactively with Manifold.
• Automation with SQL and Scripts - Commander allows running queries within a Manifold project or scripts either within the Manifold project or in external files. Commander allows launching commands to automatically do work without having to manually launch Manifold and operate it interactively.
• Replace Costly and Slow ETL Tools - Commander is Manifold, so just like Manifold it runs fully parallel, with incredible parallel CPU and massively parallel GPU speed. Queries and scripts provide access to the full power of Manifold, enabling use of hundreds of Manifold functions and the full power of SQL and scripts to interact with data in databases or in any of hundreds of formats and data sources, to transform that data, do analyses, and save the transformed data or results or output to desired formats. For many tasks, Commander can replace costly, non-parallel tools like FME at a fraction of the price.
• Schedule Tasks - Using Windows Task Scheduler you can launch tasks using Commander on a regular schedule, such as updating a CSV every night for serving to clients, updating databases, or converting files into different formats.
• Generate New Files - Commander can automatically write output to new files, with the type determined by the file extension. Create new .map project files, or write to formats like Esri file geodatabases or SQLite.

See the Manifold Commander user manual topic for details and illustrated, step by step examples.

SQL for ArcGIS^®Pro

SQL for ArcGIS^® Pro is an add-in that provides ArcGIS^® Pro users with the world's most sophisticated and most powerful desktop spatial SQL. Enjoy life with super-fast SQL and say good-bye to the hassles of trying to do big, complex jobs without SQL.

Every SQL for ArcGIS Pro license enables 64-bit operation in 64-bit Windows systems. SQL for ArcGIS Pro requires installation of Esri ArcGIS^® Pro, version 2.8 or more recent. SQL for ArcGIS Pro supports both ArcGIS Pro 2.x as well a sthe new ArcGIS Pro 3.x release.

See the SQL for ArcGIS Pro page for an overview.

Special Introductory Offer

$145 - SQL for ArcGIS^® Pro - Save $100 off the regular price of $245. Single desktop license that includes all SQL for ArcGIS Pro features. Requires Esri ArcGIS^® Pro version 2.8 or more recent, including the new ArcGIS Pro 3.x release. Includes free download of maintenance upgrades. This is a fully paid license and is not a limited time license or a lease. Best buy.

SQL4Arc Home Page

Above: Click on the image above for a 5000 x 1000 pixel image showing super high resolution bathymetry for the Gulf of Mexico as visualized by Viewer and Manifold. See the YouTube Video as well!

Classic GIS: Release 8

Three in One at a Bargain Price

Manifold^® Release 8 delivers a modern Windows GIS product that provides three major classes of GIS functionality in a single package:

• Desktop: Exceptionally powerful desktop and enterprise GIS for all of your data and GIS needs.
• Programming: A rich and extensive development environment for custom GIS and Vertical Market applications.
• Web Server: Enterprise class Internet Map Server for web applications and to publish your results to the Web.

The right mix for you: Manifold Release 8 delivers advanced features to organizations while providing tremendous capabilities at very low cost for individuals. You get everything you need in one package at one low price.

Release 8 Home Page

Professional Quality

There are no short cuts to professional quality. Manifold's full-time, dedicated professional team delivers the ease of use, efficiency and power of the world's most modern GIS software. Nothing else comes close. Manifold saves your time by giving you all capabilities in one, totally organic, seamless package. The best documentation in GIS guides you through Manifold's unified, perfectly integrated interface to put all capabilities at your fingertips. With Manifold there is no need to puzzle through a confusing mix of code and libraries cobbled together from non-Windows interfaces, obsolete technology, different vendors, different companies or amateur websites. No need to buy expensive options or to learn strange, non-Windows modules.

Lowest Cost or Greatest Power?

Manifold Release 8 delivers the best of both worlds in a classic GIS package. Legacy commercial packages like ESRI or MapInfo deliver professional quality and power but cost a fortune to buy and maintain. Their high marketing costs pull resources from development so technology often lags. Freeware packages may be free to download but they can cost you a fortune in labor to work around core limitations and to develop or to integrate what's missing.

Manifold Release 8 combines the low costs of freeware with the unbeatable power and quality of professional GIS by using the latest in modern software engineering. You get by far the best quality in GIS with the most modern, most powerful technology, without spending a fortune or having to play software developer to glue together third party bits and pieces. Don't settle for having to choose between low cost and professional GIS. Get both with Manifold Release 8.

Manifold Release 8 Ultimate Edition

Ultimate Edition is so inexpensive and so phenomenally powerful that it is the choice for most power users in business, government, academia, nonprofits and even individual enthusiasts. Universal x64 is by far the most powerful and most sophisticated classic desktop GIS ever created at any price. Nothing else comes close. Best buy.

$95 - Release 8 Ultimate x64 Edition combines all Release 8 features for individuals, professionals, and organizational users, plus specialized Administrative capabilities used by administrators in large Enterprises. Allows easy management of Manifold components stored on enterprise-class databases such as IBM DB/2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Includes Batch Export to Oracle and also Administrator Console for enabling user-friendly features such as formatting, preconfigured linking and friendly names. A must have for teams and larger organizations When your organization deploys dozens or hundreds of Manifold licenses and your users will simultaneously view and edit the same data in centralized data stores, administrators use Ultimate Edition to provide greater organizational efficiency with ease of use by non-experts. Everything!

• Includes development facilities for custom programming.
• Includes database connectivity plus spatial SQL superior to that found in any DBMS.
• Includes endless capacity to utilize data from a vast array of file formats, database management systems and web-based data servers.
• Includes the Manifold Internet Map Server for GIS enabled web sites using HTML, OGC WMS, OGC WFS-T (transaction enabled) and Manifold Image Server.
• Includes Enterprise class features such as simultaneous, multi-user editing of Enterprise spatial DBMS.
• Includes Geocoding Tools, Business Tools and Surface Tools extensions.
• Includes Administrator Console
• Includes all Manifold Release 8 features and functions.

Manifold Release 8 Prices

Ultimate Edition - Superb GIS and mapping using vector drawings and raster images and surfaces in perfect integration. Includes full spatial SQL, scripting and development facilities plus a vast array of features far beyond any other desktop GIS package. Includes Internet Map Server for GIS enabled web sites using HTML, OGC WMS, OGC WFS-T (transaction enabled) and Manifold Image Servers. Includes Business Tools, Geocoding Tools and Surface Tools extensions. Includes supercomputer speed computations using GPGPU. Provides concurrent, multi-user storage and editing of drawings in a centralized enterprise-class geospatial database using IBM DB/2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, ESRI SDE or Personal Geodatabases and many other DBMS products. Users can reuse and edit drawings, images and other mapping components in the central DBMS without conflicts.

Supports storage of images and surfaces in spatial DBMS (including native support for Oracle GeoRasters) as well as Area of Interest windowing into terabyte-class spatial DBMS data sets. Network fault-tolerant. Writes to .e00, too. Also includes additional shared database administration and configuration tools. Allows easy management of Manifold components stored on enterprise-class databases such as IBM DB/2, Oracle, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 and PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Includes Batch Export to Oracle and also Administrator Console for enabling user-friendly features such as formatting, preconfigured linking and friendly names. A must have for teams and larger organizations to supplement Manifold licenses used by most users in the organization (most users normally use Universal Edition). Includes all Release 8 features in a single, highly integrated package

• $95 - Manifold 8.00 Ultimate x64 - 64-bit version.

Prices above are fully paid licenses and are not annual rentals.

• All Manifold System products include full programming capabilities - Every license is a "developers edition."
• All Manifold products require 64-bit Windows, providing full 64-bit power.
• Buy the products on this page using credit cards on the Online Store.
• All prices are in US Dollars. Prices are subject to change without notice.
• For advice on what products to buy, please see the What to Buy page.

Manifold products are delivered as a download by Internet. No DVDs or hard copy packages are sent. Downloads provide instant delivery and avoid customs hassles for international buyers. Downloads save the environment as well, with no plastic trash or transportation pollution. Be green. Download today.

Technical Support Products

Technical support incidents provide direct access to Manifold technical experts for answers to specific questions about Manifold Release 9 or Manifold Release 8. Each incident covers a specific question. All Manifold tech support is paid. A small fee is charged for each tech support incident with three standard support tokens required for developer level questions. Some Manifold licenses may include two pre-paid standard incidents to help get you started (low cost products do not). Response times are average responses for business days only, excluding weekends and holidays. Tech support is provided only for the current Manifold release and the current Manifold update for that release.

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$45 - Standard Tech Support Incident - One standard technical support incident. 48 hour response email technical support for interactive features of the current Manifold release up to Personal level features. Excludes support for programming, customization of any kind, web serving, SQL and features for Universal Edition and above.

$195 - Standard Technical Support - Ten standard technical support incidents. 48 hour response email technical support for interactive features of the current Manifold release up to Personal level features. Excludes support for programming, customization of any kind, web serving, SQL and features for Universal Edition and above.

Developer level questions, covering all Manifold features, require at least three standard support incident tokens per question.

Service Products

Fee-based services enable assistance with lost serial numbers or provide additional activations over time.

$45 - Limited Key Recovery - This service product orders an attempted recovery and resending of the last Manifold serial number email sent to the given email address. If the given email address is no longer valid or no serial number email has previously been sent to that email address, the key recovery will fail and the fee will not be refunded - it will be retained as a service fee for the labor involved in the recovery attempt. Successful recovery is not guaranteed and may not happen. Please read the Key Recovery Service Instructions before ordering this product to avoid wasting the service fee.

Discounts

Under some circumstances discounts of up to 50% are available on prepaid orders. Please see the Discounts page for details.

Terms of Sale / Licensing

Manifold software products are licensed, not sold. See the Terms and Conditions of Sale for additional information. By ordering Manifold products you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Sale. Please also review the Licensing page for an important overview of licensing.

Manifold Viewer

Parallel Viewing and Analysis in a Free Tool

Manifold Viewer - Free! Enjoy endless viewing and analytic capability using extraordinary technology based on a read-only subset of Manifold Release 9. Although Viewer cannot write projects or save edited data back out to the original data sources, Viewer provides phenomenal capability to view and to analyze almost all possible different types of data in tables, vector geometry, raster data, drawings, maps and images from thousands of different sources. Manifold Viewer delivers a truly useful, Manifold technology tool you can use for free to experience Manifold power firsthand. Visit the Videos page for spectacular videos of Viewer in action. Start with the Introducing Viewer video. Both Release 9 videos and Viewer videos demonstrate features common to both.

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