DMTI Spatial


Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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® AzureTM 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.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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.”

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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.

Click here to read more or to save your seat >>

Monday, October 3, 2011

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 25th 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.