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Welcome Special thanks to our Sponsors/Exhibitors
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Location Intelligence The Way Forward

• Tom Probert
• EMEA Desktop Product Manager

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Location Intelligence The Way Forward

• MapInfo and Web Services
• MapInfo and Business Intelligence
• The Future of MapInfo Professional

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MapInfo and Web Services - Geocoding
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MapInfo and Web Services Find Address Service
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MapInfo and Web Services Driving Regions Service
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• Free trial of the Envinsa Online Services
• In the Help Menu, click on the Connect to Envinsa
  Online Services menu command.

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Interoperability Extensions to MapBasic

• New MapBasic APIs for
• XML
• HTTP
• FTP
• Organisations can use these APIs to access and
  use data from diverse IT systems.
• Build application connectivity with Web delivered
  data.
• Interoperability at a new level.

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MapInfo Professional Web Services Integration
CRM Demo

• Connect to SalesForce.com and download data into
  MapInfo Professional 8.5
• Geocode the data with Envinsa
• Perform Drive Region Analysis with Envinsa
• Access individual records from the SalesForce.com
  Web site from the map in MapInfo Professional.
• This demo uses data from the U.S. and several
  countries in Europe.

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SalesForce.com List of Accounts
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MapInfo Professional Web Services Integration
CRM Demo
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MapInfo Professional Web Services Integration
CRM Demo

• Next we will analyse the customers within Driving
  regions (isochrones)
• The isochrones will be coloured according to the
  total revenue from the customer table.

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MapInfo Professional Web Services Integration
CRM Demo

• The data was downloaded from the system with a
  URL link back to each individual record.
• MapInfo Hotlink tool can be used to access the
  data.

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MapInfo Location Intelligence and Business
Intelligence Systems

• MapInfo is developing solutions to add spatial
  analysis to popular Business Intelligence
  systems.
• MicroStrategy
• Business Objects
• Two way integration
• From reports to maps and maps to reports
• Spatial analysis
• Part of our drive to enable entire enterprises to
  leverage location intelligence through their
  current IT systems.

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BI Integration
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MapInfo Professional Product Direction

• Project Grande

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• MapInfo has embarked on a dual product strategy
  for our desktop offering.
• The key points of this plan are
• MapInfo Professional and MapBasic on current
  technology will continue to be enhanced.
• In parallel, MapInfo has commenced development of
  our next generation technology built on .NET and
  our MapInfo platform.
• This is called Project Grande.

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Key Customer Drivers

• Customer focus is on capabilities and benefits.
• Migration effort must be minimised. Switch to a
  new platform must be require minimal effort.
• MapInfo is committed to providing customer first
  driven product strategy while rolling out our
  next generation technology

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Migration to our next generation platform

• Backwards compatibility is a top priority
• MWS workspace support
• WOR support
• Geoset support
• MapBasic support planned, but not for first
  commercial release.
• WMS and WFS connection to our server products
  (MapXtreme Java and MapXtreme 2005).

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• Demonstration

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Thank You!

• Thomas M Probert
• EMEA Desktop Product Manager
• thomas.probert_at_mapinfo.com