Blogs
Location Intelligence Blog
The most recent 3 blog posts:
- Webinar – Get More From Your Maps: Introducing MapInfo Professional v10.5 Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Panelist: Moshe Binyamin, Global Product Manager, Pitney Bowes Business Insight You asked, we listened! Come and hear what frequently requested enhancements have been addressed in this new release! With the latest enhancements to [...]Upcoming Webinar Get More From Your Maps: Introducing MapInfo Professional v10.5! by Jessica Krokowski
- After many months of engineering work, the latest release of MapInfo Professional v10.5 has been delivered to Production. Benefits include faster map creation and editing, new ways of sharing dynamic output for greater insight, and data connectivity using industry-standard data servers from around the world. The online 30-Day Trial Evaluation of MapInfo Professional v10.5 is now [...]MapInfo Professional® Online 30-Day Trial Evaluation Available! by Jessica Krokowski
- Check out how mapping applications based on technology from Pitney Bowes Business Insight and is being used by customers around the world, from local governments to major communication companies. Customer Sites – http://www.pbinsight.com/resources/customer-sites Customers have embraced Location Intelligence by publishing information on assets and services in a geographic context. See examples of spatially enabled web applications using [...]Customer User Sites for Location Intelligence on PBBI website by Jessica Krokowski
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Stratus Blog
The most recent 3 blog posts:
- In case you missed last weeks press release from PBBI, you can now read it here. “The need for citizen self-services and increased transparency, combined with reduction around costs and inefficiency are driving wider mainstream adoption of location-based data, and fuelling the appetite for geospatial data on-demand in the UK public sector, according to Pitney Bowes [...]INSPIRE driving Geospatial On-Demand data… by Chris McCartney
- PBBI is pleased to provide a new whitepaper on considerations for Public Sector organisations in relation to Location Aware CRM and Cloud Computing: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has been a staple of the public sector for many years and to varying degrees of success. Today public sector organisations are increasingly being exposed to [...]New Whitepaper Available Now: Location Aware CRM & Cloud Computing by Chris McCartney
- When I talk to people about SaaS, you get varied reactions, varied opinions and varied “facts” and “statistics” thrown up about it. Longer term, and more dedicated readers, know that some facts and statistics are truer than others. The most sensitive area about SaaS is of course data – and more accurately data security, and [...]Your Clouds are not welcome here… by Chris McCartney
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Confirm Blog
The most recent 3 blog posts:
- On the journey to work this morning, I noticed a wonderfully phrased advert for a National Bank announcing “It’s what you were meant for”. Of course, the attempt at “association by empathy” was cleverly placed on a billboard at a major railway station: after all, who would not want their own business and the images [...]It’s what you were meant for by Dominic McNeillis
- Interestingly, the Cabinet Office announced today that Ian Watmore joins the Efficiency and Reform Group as Chief Operating Officer from September 1st 2010 (this link for the full story). On a fairly modest salary compared to the already required £6.2bn savings his new team have to deliver, it looks like he will re-enter public service with a [...]Ian Watmore joins the Efficiency and Reform Group by Dominic McNeillis
- In a recession, people still buy iPhones and ice-creams, it is said. People buy ice creams because it is hot, they love ice creams and they decide they are happy to spend that amount of money because it will cool them down or just because they deserve it. iPhones are really expensive, but people with very little [...]iPhones and ice-creams by Dominic McNeillis
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Strategy & Analytics Blog
The most recent 3 blog posts:
- Tom Exter, Ph.D., Chief Demographer, Pitney Bowes Business Insight Recently, the Canadian government announced its decision to eliminate the traditional long-form Census questionnaire with a voluntary National Household Survey (NHS) in conjunction with Census 2011. While some supporters in the government agree with the change, the news has garnered backlash from demographers, geographers, statisticians and much [...]Census Changes in Canada Will Jeopardize Data Quality by Leslie Nogue
- Leslie Nogue, Pitney Bowes Business Insight This week, Janet Cho of The Cleveland Plain Dealer, published an article titled “Retailers offer Christmas in July specials to woo reluctant shoppers”. In the article, Janet identifies an emerging trend from retailers, such as Toys R Us, Sears, Kmart, Target and Things Remembered, who are all promoting Christmas this week in an [...]Christmas in July? by Leslie Nogue
- Leslie Nogue, Pitney Bowes Business Insight The July edition of Marketing AdVents features a byline authored by Pitney Bowes Business Insight’s Director of Strategy, Suresh Nair. In the article, Suresh discusses the manner in which companies are beginning to use statements and invoices as a marketing vehicle. By combining transactional information with targeted communications in transactional [...]In the press: Marketing Via Invoices and Billing Statements by Leslie Nogue
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Enterprise Business Solutions Blog
The most recent 3 blog posts:
- Business users count on high-quality data every moment of every day. Today, 70% of all records contain a location element and “high-quality” means that organizations need ways to validate, transform and analyze spatial data as part of their data quality applications. Surprisingly, with the right tools, it can be easier than you thinkMore actionable data by Donna Prestwood
- Business users and data analysts face two daunting obstacles when it comes to making decisions. First they need to access accurate, timely data. Then they need to manipulate this information to create meaningful insight. Increasingly, organizations have found that it’s advantageous when they can tackle both of these challenges at once. When BI and ETL meet by Donna Prestwood
- Many in the communications industry have identified new ways to increase profits via data quality and location intelligence. We’ve compiled the best resources all in one place.Hot data trends in telecom by Donna Prestwood
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Postal Updates Blog
The most recent 3 blog posts:
- David Robinson provided a easy reference overview of the proposed USPS Exigent Rate Case. On July 6th, 2010 the USPS filed an exigency rate case with the PRC. The PRC has until October 4th, 2010 to respond and can approve as is, deny the request, or approve based on recommended changes. The USPS is requesting that [...]The USPS Files an Exigent Rate Case – OVERVIEW by Cynthia Williams
- The USPS this month is reaching out to e-tailers with a campaign showcasing how printed catalogs can dramatically increase online sales. The campaign, “Getting Started in Catalogs,” includes an instructional DVD and a free live webinar series that show how catalogs — when used as an extension of a company’s Internet-shopping portal — can increase online [...]USPS Helping e-tailers by Cynthia Williams
- Please join us for our upcoming webinar: Postal Open Forum- Reviewing the Proposed Changes of the Mailing Standards Date: July 26th, 2010 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Presenters: David Robinson – PBBI Postal Relations and Matt McPartlin – Global Portfolio Director- Postal Products Register On July 9th, 2010; the US Postal Service filed a notice of mailing services price adjustments with [...]Postal Open Forum- Reviewing the Proposed Changes of the Mailing Standards by Cynthia Williams
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