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 […]
Location Data Deluge = It’s Time for Location MDM
Organizations are dealing with higher volumes of data than ever before. To make matters more challenging, most enterprises are managing multiple systems, often loosely integrated, each of which has its own unique schema and set of business rules. This creates a number of challenges because data that is distributed across those multiple systems can quickly […]
Location Intelligence Use Cases: 3 Real-World Stories and Examples
A single address can tell you an enormous amount of information about a customer. It doesn’t just tell you where that person lives; an address, when combined with other information, can give you a sense of a person’s socioeconomic status, demographic data, and their liability and risk. That’s location intelligence! We’ve put together a set […]
How to Embed Flexible Analytics into Existing Workflows with Location Intelligence Tools
Big data and artificial intelligence are undoubtedly hot topics these days. That’s no surprise, given the myriad of different use cases that enterprises are discovering for predictive analytics, AI, and machine learning. Business leaders are coming up with all kinds of ways to generate value from their data, developing better insights and automating tasks that […]
Why Understanding Relationships Between Boundaries is Essential to Understanding Your Customers
Business leaders have long understood the value of data analysis, especially when it comes to understanding consumer behavior and driving key decisions around marketing, retail site selection, and more. Location and many of the attributes surrounding location can provide essential context to information about consumers and their behavior. Much of the available data concerning location […]
The Power to be in the Right Place at the Right Time Through Spatial Relationships
As a wise man once said, the only constant is change. This may have never been truer than it is today. Where we go and when, is changing globally and locally, at different speeds. It is a concerning time for those of us that rely on a physical presence to drive business or for our […]
Environmental Threats Shape Risk Management in Insurance
In 2020, for the first time, the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) defined in its Global Risk Report 2020 that of the risks identified in this report, environmental risks are now considered significant global concerns. This forum brings together many world leaders who are committed to identifying major problems and risks to be addressed […]
Empower Data Science Initiatives with Geo Spatial Data Enrichment
In the past few years, data science has benefited from tremendous new capabilities driven by cloud analytics platforms, artificial intelligence and machine learning, improvements in integration technology, and an explosion of new data sources driven by mobile devices, IoT sensors, vehicle telematics, and more. Location intelligence is significantly enhancing that with geo spatial data enrichment, […]
An Introduction to Enterprise Location Intelligence with Spectrum Spatial
I would like to introduce you to Spectrum Spatial, the enterprise location intelligence solution from Precisely. I’ll walk you through a few of the tools that come with Spectrum Spatial and how they can help you manage, analyze, and visualize your spatial data. I will also tell you what benefits many organizations that are already […]