MapInfo® Corporation – Be Location Intelligent

The ability to take information and data and display it on a map is a powerful and effective tool that enables insightful decision-making. This is Location Intelligence. MapInfo has been a leader in bringing location intelligence to companies and government agencies worldwide for many years.

Employing maps to visualize and understand data is much more effective than trying to interpret rows and columns on a spreadsheet. By visualizing information on a map, you are integrating location into daily processes and applications. Location intelligence is empowering people to gain the advantage of using location to make more insightful everyday decisions. Location intelligence can help you answer questions such as:

· Where should the next store be located?

· Where are sales surging – and where are they not?

· Where to dispatch emergency crews and what is the fastest route?

· Where are the best customers – and where to get more of them?

· Where should assets be placed; such as cell towers or ATM machines?

· Where are the vulnerable markets to competition?

It also can answer “what if” scenarios to help in planning and predicting such as:

· What if a hurricane occurs in this location?

· What if a competitor builds a store here?

· What if demographics in a key market change?

Here are some whitepapers that further discuss location intelligence and its fit in the IT organization.

Leveraging the Power of Location Intelligence to Enhance Business Intelligence

Location Intelligence: Meeting IT Expectations

Enterprise Mapping Deployments

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Developer Tools Overview

MapInfo products and tools integrate seamlessly into your existing IT environment. They are available for a variety of developer languages and offer many deployment options. Build custom mapping applications or integrate mapping and analysis into your existing applications.

Envinsa™ - Enable location intelligence across an organization

Envinsa is a technology platform built to deliver a wide range of location intelligence capabilities across an organization. These capabilities can either be integrated into existing applications (such as business intelligence solutions or CRM systems) or be custom-built applications meeting specific organizational needs. In many organizations, numerous departments have the need to incorporate location intelligence into their operations. Traditionally, this functionality has been provided by dedicated, usually isolated, GIS systems, operated by specialists. Typically these systems are outside the IS department and composed of many disparate applications supported through relationships with multiple vendors. With Envinsa, this functionality can be located inside the IT system and available to everyone in the organization, everywhere, and at any time. This provides the IT benefits of security, monitoring, and scalability, while not requiring GIS specialists.

Envinsa has proven particularly valuable within the wireless industry as a solution for mobile operators who need to deliver many – tens, hundreds or even thousands – applications to thousands or millions of users. The value of Envinsa is in:

· Providing precise functionality

· Simple interfaces for developers

· Support for any development environment

· Straightforward IT management tools

· Scalable solution

· SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) using Web Services standards

· Superior performance

Check out some demos and downloads for Envinsa.

Read the eWeek article about Envinsa.

Visit the MasterCard ATM finder – Envinsa in action!

MapXtreme® 2004 - Powerful location intelligence development environment for .NET

MapXtreme 2004 is a .NET SDK for the creation of map-centric or spatially-enabled applications for deployment as a client/server application over the internet/network, or as a desktop application.  MapXtreme 2004 uses web services to access location capabilities such as geocoding and routing.  In addition to supporting standards like Microsoft .NET, ADO .NET, and SQL-3. 

ü Download the evaluation copy of the .NET SDK today.

ü View  a datasheet for an overview of what MapXtreme 2004 can do for you.

ü Or check out this web deployment developed using MapXtreme 2004. <<link from Tom>>

MapXtreme® Java - Powerful location intelligence development environment for Java

MapInfo® MapXtreme Java puts mapping applications into the hands of anyone with access to a web browser. With a simple click, customers can see their wireless coverage area, find the closest drug store or get driving directions to their next sales calls. And network engineers can visually spot disruptions in their network – automatically notifying customers of service outages.

Applications running on a managed server network offer huge economies of scale – lowering hardware and administrative costs – while dramatically improving application performance, reliability and security. MapXtreme has no proprietary plug-ins, so it delivers maps to any web-browser on a PC or UNIX workstation.

ü Download the evaluation copy of MapXtreme Java today.

ü View a datasheet for an overview of what MapXtreme Java can do for you.

ü Or check out this web deployment developed using MapXtreme Java. <<link from Tom>>

MapX® Mobile - Create customized mapping applications for the Pocket PC

MapX Mobile is a robust tool for building mapping applications that run on the Pocket PC platform. It’s an ideal way to provide technicians with in-field mobile access to data such as detailed infrastructure maps. MapX Mobile applications synchronize with the desktop so wireless connections aren’t required – the application and data reside on the device. Applications can integrate with GPS devices and display most popular vector and raster image formats.

ü Download the evaluation copy of MapX Mobile today.

ü View a datasheet for an overview of what MapX Mobile can do for you.

SpatialWare® - Leverage location information; expand database capabilities

This data management software enables businesses to store, manage, and manipulate spatial data within a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) such as Microsoft® SQL Server. It includes a variety of non-traditional data types, such as digital representations of highways, fiber optic lines, sales territories, or land parcels – each with a physical component.

SpatialWare allows spatial data to be stored in the same place as traditional data, ensuring data accessibility, integrity, reliability and security.

Click here to download a free trial of SpatialWare.