MapInfo Stratus: PBBI’s Solution for Sharing Enterprise Data with More Users #InsightsCon

MapInfo Stratus is PBBI’s solution for sharing corporate data in a SaaS environment. The objective of this platform is to expose or publish more enterprise-wide data stores to more users more quickly. It’s in beta currently and PBBI has an early adopter program where users can take software in cloud environment and "try it" before going and releasing an application to the enterprise (Currently Dick’s Sporting Goods and Pepperidge Farm are beta testing Stratus).

Some of the advantages of deploying Stratus include the ability to embed custom mapping in websites along with business data, rapidly build and deploy customer mapping tools or widgets for specific business problems (e.g. risk analysis, customer collaboration), and to embed location intelligence with other applications such as a CRM system.

For the developer, Status’ is really a set of JavaScript controls that work within the MapInfo Developer environment and which also leverage OpenLayers. Some of the controls provided with Stratus include maps, address search, find nearest, query, print, and edit.