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		<title>Benefits of Spatial Location Intelligence Solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.gislocal.ca/blog/2010/08/benefits-of-spatial-location-intelligence-solutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adriana Noton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world where businesses have the ability to target customers in all areas within a country and even global regions, it has become essential to utilize technology to better identify business solutions and make better business decisions in regards to marketing, identifying current trends, reaching customers, and developing a complete awareness of potential problems [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a world where businesses have the ability to target customers in all areas within a country and even global regions, it has become essential to utilize technology to better identify business solutions and make better business decisions in regards to marketing, identifying current trends, reaching customers, and developing a complete awareness of potential problems and key relationships and patterns. The use of spatial location intelligence solutions has become vital in helping businesses achieve their goals. </p>
<p>The following outlines the benefits of utilizing spatial location intelligence solutions:</p>
<p>Real-Time Access to Information:  Today, information gathering is essential to maintaining business success. Technological advancements have resulted in available information growing at a rapid rate. Spatial location intelligence allows businesses to gather a wide variety of data in various formats and put the information in a workable format that allows for easy access and understanding. Such format can include: digital displays, graphs, charts…etc.</p>
<p>Efficient Management of <a href="http://www.dmtispatial.com/">Spatial Data</a>: Spatial location intelligence solutions provide businesses with the ability to manage data as needed. As well, company’s can integrate the data to make it relevant to their specific criteria for a particular region.  This allows them more flexibility to better manage their data, visualize scenarios, solve problems, and make better business decisions. </p>
<p>Precision Search Queries: Utilizing spatial data allows for better representation of such features as transportation routes, buildings, water ways, retail locations, property lines, postal code boundaries, communication objects such as cell phone towers, and much more. As well, there is more precise location information for such features and objects as hospitals, bridges, street addresses, flood zones, earthquake zones, and residential and business addresses. It also allows for the identification of relationships of geographic features and objects in an area. Such formulas can be used to calculate driving times, proximities, travel distances, and more. The goal is to make more informed business decisions.</p>
<p>Real-world Applications: Spatial location intelligence solutions can be used in a wide variety of areas such as in Government for such tasks as economic development, public safety, health safety, homeland security, and land records.  Key features include: managing geospatial information referenced by latitude/longitude, ensuring precision and accuracy, and supports space and time based searches. As well, such organizations as the Military, meteorology, and oceanography benefit from using spatial location intelligence solutions. For businesses, they can analyze demographic data to find regions to sell their products or services. Data collected using the Geographic Information System will help businesses acquire a better market picture of a particular market region much faster and easier.</p>
<p>There are numerous benefits to utilizing spatial location intelligence solutions. Businesses are able to successfully visualize and map analyzed data to identify current shopping trends, consumer lifestyle trends, changing demographics, specific geographical objects and features, to help them better understand their business markets in order to boost productivity, improve business performance, increase profitability, and generate revenue.  The most important benefit of using spatial location intelligence solutions is to help businesses leverage their data to make better businesses decisions, as well as improving their bottom line. </p>
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		<title>Location Intelligence: More Than Just Plotting Map Coordinates</title>
		<link>http://www.gislocal.ca/blog/2010/06/location-intelligence-more-than-just-plotting-map-coordinates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adriana Noton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coordinates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[location intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this fast paced and ever-changing business environment that now spans the globe, location intelligence solutions allows businesses to turn data from numerous sources into a powerful means of making smart business decisions. Map visualization applications within location intelligence solutions allow a business to interpret and understand analyzed data to determine key relationships and issues [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this fast paced and ever-changing business environment that now spans the globe, location intelligence solutions allows businesses to turn data from numerous sources into a powerful means of making smart business decisions. Map visualization applications within location intelligence solutions allow a business to interpret and understand analyzed data to determine key relationships and issues that require urgent attention and implement solutions that achieve the best results.</p>
<p>Businesses have the ability to use map visualization such as address management online applications that includes gathering information about postal codes, transportation routes, retail districts, community features, location of key points of interest such as hospitals and schools, waterways, and many other relevant objects to determine marketing strategies, operational strategies, business development and implementation, and more. It makes the information easy to read and understand when viewed so that a business manager can   make critical decisions through effective analysis.</p>
<p>Location intelligence has a number of benefits for a business seeking to improve operations, improve their bottom-line, reduce spending waste by implementing correct strategies, and reach more potential customers. With so much data mined from a variety of sources, location intelligence allows data to be linked directly, use interactive filters and controls to allow analysts to select and view analyzed information in real time and execute speedy deployment, and identify common relationships from different data sources. This significantly reduces the time and effort evaluating a variety of scenarios which makes for better decision making and implement the best strategy that will the achieve the most favorable results.</p>
<p>Location intelligence that includes map visualization and address management online allows analysts to evaluate multi layered data according to their specific needs in order to come to the best solutions to complex problems by displaying the data clearly on a map. As well, various business departments can integrate data from other departments to understand sales trends, performance trends, customer shopping habits and preferences, and other key areas to make better business decisions. </p>
<p>Location intelligence allows for the geocoding of data to allow for interactive mapping<br />
That allows an analyst to reach conclusions based on location-based data visualization. The user utilizes data filters to show only the data that meets their specified parameters which is highly adaptable. The benefit is that the multidimensional data on a map allows an analyst to run different scenarios and generate possible outcomes so a business manager can make the soundest decision. For example, when a government allocates moneys in an economic stimulus plan for thousands of projects across the country, location applications allows an analyst to determine where the money disbursed will have the greatest impact.</p>
<p>Address management online provides insight into product demand, consumer lifestyle and behavior to provide a complete geographic depiction. Mapping and analytical solutions when analyzing data analysis helps a business predict customer needs and optimize marketing strategies. Address management allows a business to create a rich database of customer profiles that can be accessed in real time to better gain a competitive edge over similar businesses in the area by identifying current and future trends. As well, businesses can use the data to cut unnecessary operational expenses, streamline workflow, and generate more revenue. </p>
<p>Location Intelligence Solutions gives businesses the tools to make the most out of their data. They will be at more of an advantage to leverage the analyzed information to better optimize business performance, resolve problems quickly, and implement plans that result in business success. </p>
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		<title>Succeeding In The Marketplace Using Business Management And Location Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.gislocal.ca/blog/2010/04/succeeding-in-the-marketplace-using-business-management-and-location-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adriana Noton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With any downturn in the economy businesses scramble to find better ways of conducting their enterprise. Some of the more effective ways include careful analysis of each work module required to accomplish the job. A careful annotation of what happens along the way from the manufactured product, transportation to the store, reception, stocking the shelves, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With any downturn in the economy businesses scramble to find better ways of conducting their enterprise. Some of the more effective ways include careful analysis of each work module required to accomplish the job. A careful annotation of what happens along the way from the manufactured product, transportation to the store, reception, stocking the shelves, marketing the product and sales to customers and allows for a systematic review of the business. Careful application of <a href="http://www.dmtispatial.com/en/Solutions/ManageRiskMitigationAndFraud.aspx">business management and location intelligence</a> may save a struggling business.</p>
<p>With profit in mind anything that can be done to reduce time handling or price increases the bottom line. While this may appear obvious is a complex task especially with products that require considerable handling between the market and the store will require special storage or are expensive. Just-in-time manufacturing reduced overhead for companies by preventing stocking store parts this concept applies to retail market as well.</p>
<p>It is important to carefully document everything that happens to the product no matter how innocuous it may appear. Frequently flowcharts are drawn which allow for a step-by-step visual representation of the overall process. Having just visual picture allows the manager and employees to document problems or hold ups within the steps. Just drawing a flowchart of the incremental pathway will help in identifying unnecessary steps or steps that could be combined. Focusing on the most difficult areas will allow for the greatest improvement in the system.</p>
<p>As one digs deeper into the process as it becomes clear that each step is in some way dependent on the step before it and so it is helpful to add an element of time into each module. I carefully analyzing the time management of the system one can identify a critical path that is the sequence of the sub-processes which cannot be done in parallel but must be done in series such that any delay increases the overall system timing.</p>
<p>Added years to gain the greatest successes include their employees in the analysis of the work. Those individuals closest to the work that once were doing a hands-on daily activities are a gold mine of ideas on how to do it better. A smart manager learns to harness these ideas and doesn&#8217;t cost money go against policy or cause a safety concern should try the ideas even if he&#8217;s not sure it will work.</p>
<p>Prior what type of management approach one chooses to employ to gain efficiency one must eliminate either steps resources or manpower but there is increasing attention being given to a new concept. This is a new notion that tries to leverage the data within processes that link the system by location. Including a geographic component in the analysis of product provision is another way to increase efficiency.</p>
<p>This new concept is not as complicated as it may sound. The idea of including a component of location to the analysis of which products to sell place on special or insure to remain in stock makes sense once it has been added to the analysis. By harvesting the data of sales patterns in multiple locations businesses can focus on providing the locally demanded products in the areas with greatest turnover. This provides a tremendous efficiency by reducing warehousing and allows for greater sales.</p>
<p>Tough times drive management to make difficult decisions. These decisions may even include reduction of employees which contrary to employee believes is not something management wants to do. It&#8217;s possible to use a combination of business management, <a href="http://www.dmtispatial.com/en/Products/LocationHub.aspx">postal code map</a>, and location intelligence to increase profit and efficiency businesses are more likely to be able to retain employees and stay successful even in a down market.</p>
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		<title>A Brief Overview Of A Postal Code Map</title>
		<link>http://www.gislocal.ca/blog/2009/12/a-brief-overview-of-a-postal-code-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adriana Noton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the world the use of a postal code map has become a recognized way to sent mail through the postal service. Postal codes make it possible for postal stations across the globe to use scanners and distribute mail to far reaching locations more efficiently and effectively.
There are many types of scanners used that are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Throughout the world the use of a postal code map has become a recognized way to sent mail through the postal service. Postal codes make it possible for postal stations across the globe to use scanners and distribute mail to far reaching locations more efficiently and effectively.</p>
<p>There are many types of scanners used that are designed for postal codes. Some of the most popular scanners read bar codes that direct mail based on the code that has been placed on a label containing data that is affixed to the letter with a label.</p>
<p>Other scanners are designed to read handwritten letters and numbers as letters pass through a large scanning machine. When the writing cannot be read by the scanner it is passed to a human that must then place the letter is the correct bags for transfer to a centralized mail distribution center.</p>
<p>Most countries have small postal stations in villages and towns where mail is collected and distributed for that area. However, the mail that is collected is transferred to a large collection center in major metropolitan areas where the mail of several towns is sorted and packaged for shipment to locations throughout the world.</p>
<p>Scanning machines may be very large and are secured to the floor with several chain link conveyors that move mail to the machine. As the mail is scanned, it is transferred to bags for local distribution, national distribution, or international distribution. The department that must manually sort mail often use a small hand held scanner that records the letters and numbers that have been written. The scanned image is input into the central memory of the main scanning machine and when that type of writing is found on another envelope, the scanner can translate the writing into the appropriate bar code.</p>
<p>Many people find that when they have inserted the wrong postal code on a letter or parcel, it is delivered to a foreign location even though the handwritten address is correct. This is because very few letters and parcels are viewed or scanned by humans.</p>
<p>The scanning machines that are used have a global location intelligence in the hard drive upon which all mail is distributed. In some cases a scanner will read a one instead of a seven when scanner and the letter or parcel will be shipping to the location that is indicated by the postal code map to be the closest to that number.</p>
<p>When a person is unsure of the correct postal code to use on a letter or parcel, they are often able to get a local, or government postal code map that has a breakdown of the country and it&#8217;s postal code. Many large countries that have several codes for certain regions utilize several maps for the area.</p>
<p>As more electronic records are being standardized and records are being kept in centralized locations the use of postal code maps is becoming a vital part of the process of organizing records electronically. Using postal codes to sort clients and customers by city or region makes it easier to find the records for individual.</p>
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