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Thursday, November 5. 2009

Mark Cattini to Head OnDemand Social Media Firm Awareness, Inc

Mark Cattini will take over as CEO at Awareness Inc., based in Waltham, MA. Most recently Cattini was president of marketing services at Pitney Bowes, though most in the geo industry know him as longtime president and CEO of MapInfo.

- Mass High Tech

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in PBBI [MapInfo] at 08:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, August 18. 2009

Podcast: The Free Business Model and Geospatial

How do you benefit from giving technology away? This week we look at a trend - all sorts of things (data, technology and Web services) are being offered for free across the technology landscape. It's happening in geospatial too. So, here's today's question: How will companies' free offerings compete with one another?

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, ESRI, PBBI [MapInfo], Intergraph, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, Cloud Computing at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, August 11. 2009

Podcast: Cloud Computing in Geospatial

Cloud computing is on everyone's list of buzz words this summer. What does the phrase mean? And what does it mean in the geospatial arena? We offer some definitions and ways to think about the new computing platform and look at what's happening now and may be ahead for geospatial technology practitioners.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, ESRI, Microsoft, PBBI [MapInfo], Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, Cloud Computing at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Monday, August 10. 2009

Exponare (MapInfo Web Mapping) in the Wild

I don't believe I've seen (or know I'd seen) an Exponare local government app in recent memory. But an article in GCN highlights the use of GIS in Cumberland County, NC and notes it's in use. So I had a look.

The app offers quite a lot and if you've seen MapInfo it's a very familiar interface. There are three columns in the legend for visible, selectable and labelled, for example, that you don't see too often in desktop or online apps, for example.

One particular item that struck me - across the top of the map window are buttons labelled "Virtual Maps," "Outlook" and "Word..." which allow viewing the data in Google Maps/Bing Maps (note to developers: need to update that from Virtual Earth in the mouseover text), and pasting the map in Outlook or Word respectively. I can't be sure what these do as I don't have those apps on my Mac.

I also like the print options which included different layouts (with and without the map) and the opportunity to title the map/report as you like. (My students just finished an exercise on Web map printing and were not too happy with the sites they explored.)

I did find two disappointments. First, the app window fully refreshed far more often that I would have liked. And, second, I could find no "help" or "tutorial". After some poking around I did find a tutorial: it is noted on the main mapping page for the county - but the link is not highlighted. Suggestion: make that link more obvious and include a link to it from the mapping app itself. The tutorial includes several Quicktime movies that I was unable to run - but that could be because I was using an unsupported browser (Safari).

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in PBBI [MapInfo] at 07:04 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

Friday, July 31. 2009

Pitney Bowes Posts Lower Q2 Numbers; Stock Stamped Down by Wall Street

Today's quarterly report by Pitney Bowes (PBI), parent company of Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI, aka MapInfo/Group 1) was sobering, to say the least, and the company's stock declined over 12% on the news. By contrast, Trimble's lower earnings report this week sent their stock up over 11%. Perhaps its all in the way you report the news.

Revenue and earnings for PBBI or the broader "Business Solutions" division of PB are not easily discerned from the statement released by the company. In general, however, mailstream services revenue declined 6 percent, management services revenue declined 8 percent, mail services increased 4 percent, and marketing services revenue declined 17 percent. Somewhere hidden in those numbers are the results for PBBI. The company also issued revised guidance for the remander of 2009: "Worldwide consolidation in the financial services industry and slowness in the retail sector continued to adversely impact the sales and renewal of software licenses. Uncertainty surrounding the economy has resulted in many large multi-national organizations changing their approval policies for capital expenditures, which has lengthened the sales cycle... The company has not seen indications that economic and business conditions in mail-intensive industries will improve this year and has also seen further declines in some key geographies."

Posted by Joe Francica in PBBI [MapInfo] at 15:24 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, July 21. 2009

Podcast: First Half of 2009: State of the Industry

We are halfway through 2009. Directions Media editors have been to about a dozen user and specialty conferences in the U.S. and around the world, including ESRI's huge event last week. What themes are emerging? What can we tease out about the future? Our editors try to make sense of five key themes they've identified.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, PBBI [MapInfo], Autodesk, Standards, GIS Jobs, Directions on the News Podcast, Geospatial Business, ESRI UC 09 at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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