Pitney Bowes MapInfo, the leading global provider of location
intelligence, today announced that its flagship MapInfo Professional®
application for business mapping and analysis will utilize the spatial
enhancements in Microsoft®
SQL Server® 2008 to
provide customers with enhanced geographic and business data management.
SQL Server 2008 customers will be able to directly access, visualize and
analyze data from SQL Server 2008 with the sophisticated, user-friendly
geographic and analytical capabilities of MapInfo Professional,
providing an enterprise-wide information access and analysis tool for
making more informed decisions.
“Pitney Bowes MapInfo’s
spatial enhancement support will provide our joint customers the ability
to combine the location intelligent decision-making power of MapInfo
Professional with the comprehensive data management capabilities of
Microsoft SQL Server 2008,” said Kim
Saunders, senior director of SQL Server marketing at Microsoft. “With
solutions like this, organizations of any size or budget can now better
take advantage of enterprise and customer data—their
most strategic asset in effective decision-making.”
“We are excited about our growing strategic
alliance with Pitney Bowes, Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Pitney Bowes Group
1,” said Eddie Amos, general manager for
Worldwide Partner Evangelism for Microsoft Corp. “Our
collaborative efforts spanning across a broader platform strategy, which
include the .NET Framework and Virtual Earth, ensure that Microsoft and
Pitney Bowes share a common vision of delivering innovative, value-added
solutions to meet the unique needs of different businesses and customers
around the world.”
The compatibility of MapInfo Professional with Microsoft SQL Server 2008
will help Pitney Bowes MapInfo customers access and manage increasing
volumes of geographic and business data critical to a wide-range of
business applications and projects. Microsoft customers considering SQL
Server 2008 as their business and spatial data storage solution will
have access to the rich mapping and geographic querying capabilities of
MapInfo Professional, helping them maximize the value of their corporate
data through improved analysis and more comprehensive reports.
“Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Microsoft have
worked together for many years to deliver solutions that enable
customers to easily access and visualize location-based information and
more efficiently build and manage spatial analysis projects,”
said Moshe Binyamin, global product manager, Pitney Bowes MapInfo. “We
are excited to support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and provide a
comprehensive data management and analysis platform that will enable our
customers to add location intelligence analysis to business applications
across the enterprise and drive more insightful decisions.”
Pitney Bowes MapInfo will support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 starting
with the release of MapInfo Professional v9.5 in the summer of 2008.
Pitney Bowes MapInfo currently offers a related product, SpatialWare for
SQL Server, which will continue to be supported after the release of SQL
Server 2008.
About Pitney Bowes MapInfo
Pitney Bowes MapInfo, part of Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), is
the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions,
integrating software, data and services to provide greater value from
location-based information and drive more insightful decisions for
businesses and government organizations around the world. The company’s
solutions are available in multiple languages through a network of
strategic partners and distribution channels in 60 countries. Visit www.mapinfo.com
and www.pb.com
for more information.
Microsoft and SQL Server are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation. MapInfo is a registered trademark of
Pitney Bowes MapInfo Corporation.
Of Note
This press release contains forward-looking statements involving risks
and uncertainties. Any statement not a statement of historical fact is a
forward-looking statement, including without limitation statements
concerning demand for and benefits of Pitney Bowes MapInfo products and
integration of its products with existing solutions. Actual results
could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking
statements due to a number of factors, including those factors contained
in the Company’s most recent annual report on
Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
heading “Risk Factors.”
Pitney Bowes MapInfo takes no responsibility to update any
forward-looking statements.
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