Stein-Visokio are now collaborating closely with ESRI on improving integration, starting with SHP shapefile import, which is now working in version 2.8. Please let us know your most important use cases and submit sample files for use in demos and testing. You will have to upgrade your Forum account to Alpha Partner access discussions relating to this version 2.8 feature set under development.

This discussion has now been moved into Alpha Partners Ideas and merged with this thread:

http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/583/idea-mapping-importing-map-boundaries