John O’Hara will fill the shoes of Mike Hickey, who announced his resignation earlier this month.
O’Hara joined Pitney Bowes in 2007 when Pitney Bowes acquired MapInfo. At the time, he was executive vice president of international operations, later becoming general manager of international affairs. Before joining MapInfo, O’Hara held management positions at Microsoft UK, Pivotal Corp. and Lotus Development Corp. in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Matthew Broder, a spokesman with Pitney Bowes, said O’Hara will relocate to the region from the United Kingdom over the next two months.
- The Business Review (Albany)
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/22 at 08:40 AM |
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Mike Hickey, president of Pitney Bowes Business Insight (MapInfo, etc.) will step down at the end of the month to become executive-in-residence at Siena College, in Loudonville, NY. He will teach strategy classes and establish a continuing education program. He also is starting a consulting business.
- Albany Biz Journal
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/03 at 07:22 AM |
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Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) last week announced it will launch a geospatial content marketplace, which it describes as Data as a Service (DaaS). PBBI will partner with WeoGeo for the service, which is expected to go live in June.
Directions Magazine editors contemplate the hurdles to success and how, or if, this marketplace will in fact be an iTunes for geodata.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 05/18 at 01:00 AM |
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The economy, with two recessions in 10 years, has changed the way IT managers look at technology investments. Pitney Bowes Business Insight president Mike Hickey provides a frank assessment of how his company evaluated the opportunity for cloud computing. He explains why he has reoriented his company’s business model to adapt to this new environment, what software he will offer as a service and how he must find a way to do it quickly. He discusses in detail how clients are eschewing huge upfront software costs for the SaaS model that allows clients to move into more current technology solutions at lower cost. Editor in chief Joe Francica sat down with Hickey during the Insights Conference, PBBI’s user event, in Miami on May 12, 2010.
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by Joe Francica on 05/17 at 06:09 AM |
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We’ve been featuring updates (1, 2, 3) from the new version of MapInfo Professional (MiPro) version 10.5 that will be released on June 21st. Here are a few more:
- The user interface has evolved. Version 10.5 will allow user to use a docking layer control to move window elements more freely. Uses can choose to have a "dashboard" or "map-dominant" look and feel.
- To solve the problem of having needing many tables open at one time a Table List Window is available to not only list all open tables but makes this list searchable whether they are "mappable" or not. Tables can be sorted by name or by time opened. The Table List Window is "modeless" so that it can be docked, floated or hidden.
- Having many layers open at one time leads to layer list complexity and having many layers with the same name compounds the problem. It makes the layer list especially hard to work. So, to solve this issues, v10.5 will offer a different style for different zoom levels to view layers or a single layer as the user wants.
- MiPro now has a single button on the tool bar to bring in Bing Maps as a new data feed. There is nothing to install as it comes with each license of the product.
- V10.5 has includes a one button export to PDF and printing is supported from either the Map or Layout window.
by Joe Francica on 05/14 at 07:57 AM |
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