Friday, January 16, 2004

The GIS Factory

GISfactory.com is a web service of Neomatix Corporation.

Founded in 2001 Neomatix debuted with several quick successes developing and hosting internet and intranet applications. Neomatix provides complete life cycle support for the development and implementation of systems, focusing on those that deliver geographic information products to large and diverse user communities.

Our team has dozens of years of collective experience with mainstream GIS, web, and database technologies including Intergraph, ESRI and MapInfo; HTML, Javascript, Java and XML; Oracle RDBMS and Spatial. We've dealt with their growth and limitations and have been early adopters of the new generation of open source tools, including Linux, PHP, MySQL, and MapServer. We know how to provide highly available services and how to provide them securely if desired.

The unique strength of Neomatix is its ability to understand customer needs and apply broad technical knowledge of what is possible to deliver the best solutions. We make systems talk to each other; we make systems that integrate spatial and relational inquiry; and we make systems that give users the ability to get the information they need when they need it.

In summary, GISfactory.com blends the best technologies with innovation to build the best solutions for our customers.

From Mapinfo.com

Troy, NY—December 16, 2003— MapInfo (Nasdaq: MAPS) today announced EnvinsaTM, a location platform that allows business and government organizations worldwide to harness the power of location across the enterprise. For the first time, organizations can rely on a single, high-performance location platform to gain better insights into their data and drive better business decisions.

Organizations already use location technology to plan logistics, fine-tune marketing programs, support tourism, offer shopping information, analyze sales and service routing, track E911 callers, support emergency personnel and more. Frequently, however, these capabilities rely on fragmented, limited GIS systems operated by specialists. The Envinsa location platform has been designed to centrally link an organization’s location data to applications throughout its information system, giving every user instant access to enterprise-wide, location technology while eliminating the cost of managing diverse systems.

Evolved from MapInfo’s proven miAware™ architecture, Envinsa scales to support large enterprises with thousands or even millions of simultaneous users and integrates with existing IT systems. Envinsa is standards-based technology that can be deployed on high-performance, centralized servers, which can be internally managed by the customer’s IT group to allow for value and cost to be shared amongst multiple stakeholders. Additionally, the Envinsa location platform’s component architecture allows for rapid application development. As a result, location intelligence can be quickly extended to support a variety of business needs in multiple business units, geographies and application environments including Web services—all without specialized GIS skills.

For instance, at a leading bank in the western U.S., Envinsa powers an ATM and branch locator service that can be used in any of the bank’s business units. The IT team’s goal is to compete more efficiently by building a centralized solution for the whole bank and eliminate redundant GIS systems created by several business divisions. Using Envinsa, the bank’s centralized location system was functional within weeks, operating within the bank’s information ecosystem.

Each business unit within the bank can take advantage of Envinsa’s capabilities to reach their business goals. For example, marketing can analyze customer locations relative to ATM and branch locations. The call center gains easy access to information about which products are offered at which locations. And customers can help themselves on the Web, through the phone and even from wireless Web-enabled handsets. Today, the bank’s system is up and running, supporting thousands of customers, enhancing quality in customer service and eliminating the cost of managing multiple technologies.

“By putting location data into the hands of everyone across the organization, Envinsa empowers organizations to gain new perspectives on their markets, customers and business processes. Organizations can centrally manage their location infrastructure to minimize costs, while leveraging their investment more broadly and creating value across the enterprise,” said Mike Hickey, COO, MapInfo.

For more information about Envinsa, visit www.envinsa.com.

About MapInfo

MapInfo Corporation is a global software company that integrates software, data and services to help customers realize greater value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions. MapInfo solutions are available in 20 languages through a network of strategic partners and distribution channels in 60 countries. Headquartered in Troy, NY, MapInfo Corporation is on the World Wide Web at www.mapinfo.com.

www.tatukgis.com

TO: Downloaderxs of the TatukGIS Free Viewer

Please be advised that today the final version 1.0 release of the TatukGIS free Viewer was posted for download from the TatukGIS web site. This final release includes expanded tutorials (found under the Help file) and some new functionality, such as advanced spatial select options, TIFF LZW export, and CADRG format reading. The old beta 8 version of the TatukGIS Free Viewer is set to cease working on January 15.

Later we plan to issue a version 2 release of the Free Viewer with support for geographic coordinate systems. This will allow on-the-fly reprojection of vector layers, so that layers in difference coordinate systems can be viewed together, the calculation of areas and distances, and the addition of a distance scale.

Regards,
TatukGIS Sales Team
www.tatukgis.com