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Pitney Bowes Insights User Conference Skips 2013

Back in April Pitney Bowes Software announced via a message to customers that it would not be holding its Insights User Conference this year, but rather would use the year to revamp the organization. The event is usually held in May or June. The PB Software group...Read more

Google Geospatial Announcements from Google I/O 2013: Should GIS Users Care?

Google announced new location services APIs, a new Google Maps and a visual refresh for Google Maps at Google I/O last week. There was lots of descriptive coverage from the mainstream and tech press. But there was very little response from the geospatial community - except...Read more

GEOINT with SAP HANA, Esri ArcGIS

David Cruickshank from SAP's Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) describes in his blog the architecture of how SAP users can perform geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis using both SAP's HANA in-memory database with a workflow to Esri's ArcGIS. Some of the workflow is...Read more

Esri Offers Interactive Map for Directory of Major Malls

Esri and the Directory of Major Malls have partnered to create the DMM Future Retail story map that media can embed or share as part of ongoing retail and local business coverage. Built on exclusive data from the DMM, this map shows 25 lifestyle/specialty and...Read more

Why Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Missed the Importance of Location Analytics to Business Intelligence

Location-based data and analysis are considered so critical to the understanding of a business’ operations that business analytics software companies routinely and prominently boast maps as part of their dashboard visualization toolkits. But Gartner, the market research company,...Read more