Happy Holidays from DMTI Spatial

Best wishes for a happy holiday season and our sincere thanks to your loyalty and goodwill throughout the year.

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Announcing the Latest Version of Location Hub® With Postal Address Recognition and Expanded Location Intelligence Toolset

DMTI Spatial announced the latest release of their flagship product, Location Hub® 2.1. The new functionality delivers advanced post office box and rural route information through Postal Recognition, as well as an increase of over 2,000,000 civic addresses with high precision coordinates. Customers also have the added ability to add their own addresses to a secure customizable database utilizing the new Address Assert service. The unique value of this superior location data also now allows customers to utilize the new Drive Time and Drive Distance service to make critical cost-saving business decisions.

“Fully integrated into our Location Hub platform of web services, we are excited to give enterprise customers these new services to enhance their location based data,” said Arthur Berrill, VP of Technology, DMTI. “With the addition of Postal Recognition, and with our vastly increased high precision address coverage, customers can enjoy more flexibility and more accurate matching of their location data. The new Address Assert and Drive Time and Drive Distance functionality are industry-leading services that will assist customers in making important business decisions across a wide variety of use cases using their location based data.”Read full press release >>

Location Hub® Address Assure | Complimentary Webinar

On Tuesday, December 13th, 2011, DMTI will be hosting a complimentary webinar to provide an overview of a new addition to our product line, Location Hub® Address Assure. This webinar will include a live demo and question and answer session. Location Hub Address Assure represents another step forward in bringing Location Intelligence closer to you, the customer, with an intuitive, self-serve portal that taps into DMTI's comprehensive geospatial database. By cleaning, validating and enriching address data, Location Hub Address Assure gives you, our customers, better and more relevant location data, driving strategy and improving the return on your investments.
This is a must attend webinar and seats are filling up quickly so register now!

DMTI Spatial Inc. Announces Self Serve Portal to Clean, Validate and Enrich Location Data – Location Hub® Address Assure

Today DMTI Spatial announced the release of their newest product, Location Hub® Address Assure, which delivers a self-service, easy-to-use portal for customers to clean, validate and enrich their location-based data. Location Hub Address Assure provides customers with the ability to submit their address data in a variety of formats into an online portal thatis able to quickly clean and validate the addresses as well as provide additional contextual information.

"The launch of Location Hub Address Assure represents another step forward in bringing Location Intelligence closer to the customer with an intuitive, self-serve portal that taps into DMTI’s comprehensive geospatial database.” said Arthur Berrill, Vice President of Technology, DMTI. “By cleaning, validating and enriching address data, Location Hub Address Assure gives our customers better and more relevant location data, driving strategy and improving return on investment.”

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DMTI is scheduled to announce the release of their newest product this quarter

DMTI is scheduled to announce the release of their newest product which has yet to be named. This newest addition provides the ability to clean, validate and enrich address data through a self-serve online portal. With the largest collection of rooftop level coordinates in Canada, it will return the ultimate in accuracy for each recognized address. In addition to rooftop coordinates, each valid address is provided a unique identifier and is appended with multiple attributes; combined, this information can be used to drive business decisions.

Look back here towards the end of November for more news about this release, or check out our other products on our website.

DMTI Spatial Inc. Named Windows Azure Platform ISV Partner of the Year Finalist in the 2011 Microsoft Partner Network IMPACT Awards

DMTI is among three finalists hoping to receive the 2011 Windows Azure™ Platform ISV Partner of the Year IMPACT Award. The IMPACT Awards program was launched 8 years ago to recognize achievements within its technology partner community and has grown to over 35 award categories including emerging technologies, community involvement as well as sales, marketing and partnering excellence. These awards are open to active Canadian members of the Microsoft® Partner Network. The 2011 IMPACT Award finalists will be honoured at a gala event which will take place on November 30th, 2011, in Toronto, ON. The winner in each category will be named that evening!

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Location Based information and the Cloud...How speeding up performance became a differentiator

In March of this year we launched our Location Hub^® 2.0 technology on the Windows^® Azure^TM platform. Because we wanted a cost-effective solution for our location intelligence web services, hoping to replace the Oracle software that we hosted with a third-party provider. In May 2010, we re-engineered Location Hub to take advantage of .NET Framework 4 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 data management software, especially the spatial capabilities available in SQL Server 2008. Instead of using Oracle databases, and that’s when we made the decision to move our services to the Windows Azure platform, after evaluating several cloud service providers.

Along with our customers we’ve been so impressed with the uptake in performance that we plan to expand our use of the Windows Azure platform. In addition to Location Hub, we intend to move some of its other applications to Windows Azure. DMTI also plans to use Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket to sell our data through new products and services. The benefits are great including reduced costs by two orders of magnitude, improved service performance by up to six times and improved ability to focus on the business.

If you’d like to learn more about our journey to the cloud, please click here to read the full case study.

DMTI Spatial and Mapflow Establish Partnership to Bring Industry-leading Commercial Underwriting Solutions to Canadian Insurers

Today DMTI™ Spatial announced a strategic partnership with Mapflow. By combining DMTI's Location Hub^® 2.0 with GEO, they provide underwriters with an integrated, on-demand method to visualize policies and risks, helping them gain critical insights and make better decisions about property risk. The partnership is a perfect fit, adding best of breed Location Intelligence to market leading GEO platform and creates a unique and highly valuable proposition for the Canadian market. Canadian insurers now have access to the very best in property-centric risk assessment solutions to reduce exposure, increase addressable market and realize significant cost savings.

“We are very pleased to establish a partnership with Mapflow.” said John Fisher, CEO, DMTI. “Mapflow are recognized experts at applying Location Intelligence to solve insurance business problems, making this partnership such a strong strategic fit. Canadian insurers now have access to the very best in property-centric risk assessment solutions to reduce exposure, increase addressable market and realize significant cost savings.”

“We are delighted to be working with DMTI.” said Bill McCarthy, CEO, Mapflow. “Working with DMTI fits well with our strategy of adding best of breed location intelligent components to our market-leading GEO platform. We are confident that the combination of Mapflow and DMTI creates a unique and highly valuable proposition for the Canadian insurance market.”

Data Gone Wild!

Data isn't always bad, but it does get into trouble when left unsupervised.

DMTI is hosting a complimentary webinar on October 25th on how Location Hub^® 2.0 can help companies achieve over 30% more address matches in their workflow processes.

This webinar is being hosted by Rob Szyngiel, Director, Data Development/Engineering. This is a must attend event and promises to shed light on the challenges most companies face including reconciling addresses between separate databases, keeping track of address changes and ensuring they stay relevant and understanding complex relationships between different address sources.

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DMTI at ESRI Canada User Conference in Toronto on October 4th, 2011

DMTI will be exhibiting at this year's ESRI Canada User Conference 2011 | Toronto. The theme of this year's conference is “Understanding Our World”, and promises to highlight the latest advances in GIS technology.

The ESRI Canada User Conference is the one-stop-shop learning experience every GIS professional should mark on their calendar and as always, DMTI Spatial will be exhibiting in booth # 111 so be sure to stop by.

The conference is being held at:

The Toronto Congress Centre
North Building (New Building)
650 Dixon Road

We will also be handing out invitations to an upcoming complimentary webinar entitled “Data Gone Wild” on October 25^th at 2:00pm which will highlight the importance of address validation and address matching using Location Hub® 2.0.

For more information on this exciting webinar, please visit “Data Gone Wild”. For more information on Location Hub® 2.0 visit www.dmtispatial.com.

Addressing Risk and Opportunity Across Your Enterprise - John Fisher, CEO, DMTI Spatial

An address is more than just sending mail, and enterprise businesses are embracing the idea that if properly managed and utilized, their addresses can fundamentally improve the results of their organizations. The next version of our flagship product Location Hub, is opening the door to all levels of business, providing you, the customer, with the tools you need to make your business more efficient, more effective and, generally speaking, more intelligent, by addressing risk and opportunity across your enterprise.

By amalgamating the largest nationally sourced Canadian geospatial database with our world-class recognition and geocoding technology, DMTI will drive the ultimate in unprecedented Location Intelligence solutions with Location Hub^® 2.0 for the enterprise, now placed in the cloud. Providing a location based perspective to business intelligence that was previously unseen, Location Hub^® 2.0 enables enterprise businesses to leverage location based data for a more insightful view when profiling your customers, managing your assets, evaluating your competitors, and identifying opportunities.

The Location Hub 2.0 web service, now available through a platform of Software as a Service (SaaS) and hosted in the cloud through Windows Azure, Microsoft’s Cloud Services Platform, helps you reduce risk, mitigate fraud, increase wallet share through targeted marketing, and streamline operational efficiencies. Sophisticated enough to handle your addresses in any format, Location Hub 2.0 consists of industry leading Address Recognition and Address Geocoding web services. Leveraging address recognition, you are able to correct, standardize and verify addresses that do exist, could exist or don’t exist. Utilizing address geocoding, you can go beyond the presumed location of your addresses to visualize a validated, legitimate rooftop address while also geocoding to streets, intersections, places and Postal Codes ^OM with the highest level of accuracy derived from our premier Location Hub 2.0 Distillation Database.

Governed and managed in one consolidated and correlated environment, DMTI’s Distillation Database provides access to real-time updates of rich, robust and reliable location content. Location Hub 2.0 web services leverage the largest nationally sourced Canadian geospatial database created from, not a single source of truth, but corroborated against over 7,000 data sources of municipal, federal and public partnerships. This database contains an array of not only addresses but also address related content such as street information, unit number, address type, unique address ID and related phone, contact and business names.

For more information about Location Hub 2.0, please visit our product page.

Or view our podcast with the Location Based Marketing Association.