Geo Addressing: Expanding International Reach and Precision for Geocoding, Addressing & Data Enrichment
Mary Todd Jones, MT Jones and Mary T Jones are probably the same person. How do you know? Check the address associated with each name: 346 Main Apt A, 346-A Main St., 346 Main Street Unit A. Again, probably the same address. But which one is correct? Although the physical addresses present in business information […]
Enabling Automation at Scale: Interoperability and Data Enrichment
For years, data interoperability has been a challenge for business leaders striving to extract valuable insights from their corporate data. Inevitably, valuable business data resides in different systems and is stored in varying formats. Add variations in human behavior, and things can get even more problematic. For example, if a salesperson adds “ABC, Inc.” to […]
3 Location Intelligence Strategies to Drive Competitive Advantage in Telecommunications
Telecommunication organizations, or telcos, face many business challenges, including enabling digital connectivity everywhere, 5G and SD-WAN network rollouts, and customer retention. In response, many organizations are turning to data-driven decision-making to address these challenges. With 90 percent of their data having a spatial or time component, telcos are considered rich in spatial data. Examples include […]
Data Trust and Reliability Issues Impact Business Analytics
Cloud analytics drives innovation. Increased processing power, cheap storage, and in-memory computing have made it possible to churn through massive volumes of data in virtually no time at all. Business analytics vendors compete to provide the fastest, most intuitive tools with integrated visualization capabilities. Cloud hyperscalers provide the kind of highly elastic platform ideally suited […]
Leveraging Location’s Unique Role in Business Process Optimization
Business process optimization is primarily about increased efficiency, but that efficiency must never come at the expense of non-negotiable factors such as security, regulatory compliance, and adequate system performance. The key, therefore, is to design processes that enable people to work smarter, not harder. Location intelligence (LI) serves as an especially valuable focal point for […]
Best of 2021: Round Up
As 2021 wraps up, we would like to recap our top posts of the year in Data Integrity, Customer Engagement Solutions, Location Intelligence, Data Enrichment, Data Integration, Data Quality, and Data Governance. Let’s take a look! Best of Data Integrity Do you trust your data? As 2021 comes to a close, we would like to […]
Best of 2021: Top 10 Location Intelligence & Data Enrichment Blog Posts
2021 brought some exciting content in the area of Location Intelligence and Data Enrichment and as this year comes to a close we wanted to share our most popular posts of the year that brought us insight and knowledge. Let’s get started! #10 The Risk Next Door: A New School Approach to Co-Tenant and Adjacent […]
Location’s Leading Role in Supporting 2021 Data Science Initiatives
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) initiatives are gaining significant momentum, as the economics of cloud-based analytics platforms continues to get better and better–with faster and more powerful processing capabilities offered at lower price points than ever before. More importantly, businesses across every industry are seeing the opportunities inherent in predictive analytics, AI, and machine […]
MapInfo Pro v2021: What’s new?
The year was 1986. Ronald Reagan was president, Jon Bon Jovi just topped the charts with Livin’ on a Prayer, and MapInfo Pro was first released. MapInfo 2.0 – released in 1988 Thirty-five years later, more than 100,000 GIS professionals around the globe depend on MapInfo Pro to manage, analyze, and visualize location intelligence — […]
Getting Address Matching Right: Unlocking Value vs. Creating Data Issues
At first glance, many people assume that geocoding, matching a street address to a set of geographic coordinates, should be a fairly straightforward process. After all, most of us have used some of the popular online mapping tools that provide detailed information about the physical world around us, including streets, buildings, bodies of water, and […]
The Swiss Army Knife of Raster Mapping – a Look at the MVR File Format
In January of 1891, the Swiss army commissioned the creation of the Modell 1890, which is known today as the first Swiss Army knife. It was designed as a multi-purpose tool to help soldiers do a multitude of tasks from opening canned provisions to cleaning and maintenance of their rifles, and came equipped with a […]
Location Intelligence in Telecom: 4 Use Cases
Telecom companies were among the early adopters of location intelligence technology, due in large part to their need for spatial analysis to better understand network coverage and white space. Although the application of geospatial technology has been widely used in telecom for some time, a number of new use cases have emerged that call for […]