Company: Manifold Net Ltd.
Location: Carson City, NV, United States of America

Spatial applications can be best comprehended and developed using a visual GUI. Manifold provides a vast set of desktop, enterprise, programmatic and web-based spatial capabilities within a single tool that allows people working with SQL Server 2008 to take a highly visual, intuitive approach to building their applications. This helps speed up development, lower costs and increase reliability.

Manifold's spatial support for SQL Server 2008 utilizes fourth-generation code written specifically to take advantage of the innovative ideas and phenomenal power of SQL Server 2008. Testing by users with advanced access to SQL Server 2008 spatial capabilities has resulted in thoroughly debugged, rock solid Manifold support for SQL Server 2008.

"Manifold has used our prior experience supporting many other spatial DBMS environments to create our best-ever spatial DBMS toolset for SQL Server 2008. Manifold provides SQL Server 2008 spatial users with an absolutely bulletproof toolset that manages spatial complexities, such as dealing with projections or dealing with legacy data. This lets SQL Server 2008 users focus on their own value added when building and deploying spatially-aware applications. Our focus on Microsoft also means Manifold support for SQL Server 2008 spatial enhancements works well with other key Microsoft technologies, from Microsoft Virtual Earth to Windows Vista x64, so SQL Server 2008 spatial developers can utilize those Microsoft technologies from within Manifold when creating location-aware applications." said Dimitri Rotow, Product Manager, Manifold.net. He continued, "Spatial capability within SQL Server 2008 is absolutely breakthrough technology. From day one, we've found SQL Server 2008 to be reliable, straightforward to work with and a best-of-breed spatial DBMS technology."

"Tools like Manifold make it easier for SQL Server 2008 developers to create applications utilizing location-based data and to migrate their spatial data from legacy storage into SQL Server 2008," said Kim Saunders, senior director of SQL Server marketing at Microsoft. "Manifold supports SQL Server 2008 spatial enhancements with a fully mature set of features enterprise customers need today, including native 64-bit code, support for multi-core / multi-processor hardware and immediate support for other Microsoft technologies."

Highlights of Manifold support for SQL Server 2008 include:

• Visual editing of spatial data in SQL Server 2008.
• Simultaneous, multi-user editing by thousands of users.
• Area of Interest windowing to edit terabyte-sized data.
• Direct connect to SQL Server 2008 spatial using Microsoft standards -- No middleware required.
• Automatic GUI integration with Microsoft Virtual Earth.
• 64-bit / Windows Vista / Multi-core / Multi-Processor Support today.
• Automatic uploading / downloading / linking from hundreds of formats directly into SQL Server 2008 with automatic, on-the-fly re-projection. Upload data, edit it, share it, use it.
• Storage of multi-gigabyte images and terrain elevation surfaces in SQL Server 2008 with automatic projection matching and tiling.
• Full spatial SQL support including extensions for street address geocoding, network analytics, topology analytics, linear referencing, image processing and surface processing.
• Hundreds of analytic functions to enable all common GIS tasks.
• Automatic web interface for SQL Server 2008 spatial data in Internet Map Server applications using HTTP images, WFS, WFS-T, WMS or Image Server interfaces.
• Native SQL Server 2008 geometry types, OGC "open" types and a variety of proprietary GIS and spatial DBMS vendor types simultaneously supported.
• From US$395 for Manifold Enterprise Edition.
• Not a beta -- Manifold support for SQL Server 2008 spatial has been shipping in standard Manifold since August, 2008.

Manifold.net provides GIS (Geographic Information Systems) products that deliver thousands of high-end, professional and enterprise features at revolutionarily low prices, typically between US$200 and US$500 per license. Manifold products scale from the individual desktop to enterprise installations with thousands of simultaneous users and deliver in a single, integrated product the ability to do GIS as a classic, standalone desktop application, as an Internet Map Server web-based application or as a fully custom application using Manifold as an object library.

Manifold is the first mainstream GIS company to have delivered production products that run native 64-bit in Windows, that support Windows Vista, that support multi-core / multi-processor operations in Windows, that support SQL Server 2008 spatial enhancements and that utilize massively-parallel NVIDIA CUDA architectures to achieve supercomputer performance on a desktop.

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Manifold (www.manifold.net)
Phone: 800-556-5919