MapInfo Unveils Newest Version of Enterprise Location Intelligence Platform
Written by MapInfo
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
For Business and Public Sector Organisations, Envinsa v4.0 Delivers Location Analysis across Departments and Applications
London—February 28, 2006—MapInfo Corporation (NASDAQ: MAPS), the leading global provider of Location Intelligence solutions, today introduced Envinsa™ version 4.0, a scaleable web services platform for delivering mapping, geocoding, routing and enhanced spatial capabilities across the enterprise. Envinsa v4.0 enables organisations in all industries to combine Location Intelligence with core analytical and operational processes, resulting in better decision-making, lower costs, enhanced efficiencies and improved service.
Location Intelligence is increasingly critical to organisations with large and geographically dispersed customers, employees and assets, helping them to more effectively allocate resources, manage assets, analyse incidents of crime, plan retail store locations, or deliver mobile capabilities to field based workers. Envinsa v4.0 enables organisations to centrally manage location analysis capabilities and apply them across multiple functions, maximising business potential.
“For developers and System Integrators Envinsa provides the essential spatial backbone in any services orientated architecture enabling organisations to more effectively identify opportunities, improve profitability and analyse competitive threats. From telecommunications to public sector to retail, Envinsa is the ideal solution for helping companies exploit the full potential of their corporate data to solve critical operational problems,” said Chris Bolam, Product Manager, MapInfo EMEA.
Envinsa v4.0 Enhancements Result in Increased Efficiencies
Envinsa utilises a standards-based Web Services architecture to deploy a host of location capabilities. Each underlying function is delivered as a discrete Web Service that is made available through WSDL, accessed using SOAP and catalogued for internal use using UDDI. These Web Services provide the flexibility to interoperate with multiple operating systems, development environments and application deployment choices.
New capabilities and improvements in Envinsa v4.0 include:
• Web Map Service and Web Feature Service capabilities are now compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications for WMS and WFS 1.1
• New 3D mapping capabilities have been added which allow map information to be output as GeoVRML
• Envinsa routing now enables the generation of drive time and drive distance catchments
• Envinsa is now certified against the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Open Location Services (OpenLS) 1.1 specification
• Envinsa Geocoding can now be run on any operating system
• Full support for Oracle 10g Release 2
Benefits of Developing with Envinsa 4.0
Envinsa’s web services interface facilitates the development of interoperable systems and enterprise architectures. Customers are using Envinsa to make legacy systems location-aware, enriching mobile devices with Location Intelligence, adding new capabilities to desktop applications and creating unique, future-proof, Web applications. Meanwhile Systems Integrators are using Envinsa as the location intelligent backbone to Service Oriented Architectures that ensure a common standard of spatial capability across the enterprise.
Available geographies
Envinsa is available for most European countries, and can provide seamless Location Intelligence across multiple borders. For more information about Envinsa, visit, www.mapinfo.com/EnvinsaUpgrade.
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