Alistair Dickinson

What Is Geocoding and How Can It Benefit My Business?

We created Mapsimise knowing that the concept of geocoding data for business was fairly new. Not many businesses currently use it and we found that using GEO applications for business has been seen much more in the US than it has in the UK and Europe.

Public Sector

Helping the community through partnership

The Mapsimise team are working with Keitaro and Nosy Design on a Code For Ethics project to collect vital data for the NHS. We want to help the NHS understand how many people in their area are self-isolating

Geospatial

Keep your productivity up whilst also looking after your mental health now you’re WFH!

So you’re now working from home, you’ve moved some stuff around and you’re set up for work. For those lucky enough to work from a laptop you can choose your workspace.

Geospatial

Our ever-changing world, well this will be Interesting…

We are seeing everything turn upside in front of us. We have all seen the map of the Corona virus grow and grow… In light of it all, geospatial and graphical representation of data can be fascinating.

Geospatial

Our Latest Update Feb 2020 - Just making it all a little more Mappy

In this blog we’ll be showing you what’s been updated and also what has been added to improve your Mapsimise journey. This update has more bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements than any previous Mapsimise release.

Charity

Is Your Not-For-Profit Working to Deliver Health Services?

Today I’m not looking at the individual types of services, but how as a provider you can manage your data in a better way using geospatial tools like Mapsimise. Although I’ll be relating service provisions and how they can be made more efficient.

Charity

Why Geospatial Helps Your Not-For-Profit Deliver Education and Training

You might well be thinking “what!?” How is a map going to help me deliver education causes and in truth, unless you’re planning on delivering geography or using the map to display economic data the need of using mapping in education could be a little limited.

Charity

Does Your Not-For-Profit Run Projects or Events?

In saying that the types of activity might be the same and so in this article I’m looking to answer some of the questions around the benefits of geospatial and mapping for managing projects and events.

Charity

Is Your Organisation Working With Supporters and Volunteers?

So today let’s look at some of the pain points we can help you resolve through location intelligence and using your data in more efficient ways. Your supporters may be in many locations, not just nationally or regionally but internationally.

Geospatial

Who Ate All the Pies? When is the next Delivery?

So, today’s blog is all about retail and using geospatial solutions to find locations for outlets. Any organisation that offers consumer goods through outlets or through re-sellers will need to identify best locations ...........

Geospatial

Why Your Customer Is Your Biggest Asset?

Technology might have changed our approach to business activity and it still is, as consumers now have access to far more choice through the internet, but those customers that engage and buy into your message, product and brand are going to become assets for your business.

Engineer

Effective Use of Geospatial Drives Product, Customer, Resource and Asset Management

Geospatial and business intelligence helps you as a business owner make more informed decisions through analysis. From planning your resources, understanding customers by location or even launching new product platforms like Mapsimise, helps you with analysis.

Helping You to Make Sense of a Digital World With Geospatial

The big change has obviously been technology from email and the first mobile phones to now being 24/7 connected around the globe through our smart devices. The world might seem like it just got smaller, but it didn’t, our potential as business providers just got bigger and so did our markets!

Financial

Growing Your Recruitment Business by Making It Geospatial

You will also be fully aware of the phrase “Time is money” and finding and placing the right candidate for a customer is usually time restrained. In most circumstances matching people, skills and location can be a challenge when time is an issue.

Engineer

Helping Your Security Company Do More With Your Data

As a security business owner that focuses on installs and the provision of alarms, door entry and CCTV location equipment, information about a given location might be important to you and your customers.

Google Maps

One True View of All Your Customers, Prospects, Sales and Cases

Business efficiency is not always easy to achieve, and we all know that our customers are our biggest asset. To grow business, we need to generate more new business and business from existing customers.

Engineer

“All I Want to Do Is Get All My Engineers to the Right Place and Schedule Their Jobs”

I was recently working with a medium sized telecom provider that had several requirements when it came to mapping out data for use within the business.

Maps for Microsoft Dynamics 365

What Is “Connected Data” and Why You Should Care?

So, what is connected data? It’s a strategy to use data that is in your current systems and build views across multiple platforms that you may have to give an analytical view of system and business data.

Geospatial

Can I Use My “Big Data” by Location?

This was in the late 1990’s and the concept of “Big Data” was not really a thing but this organisation was very forward thinking, cutting edge you might say, and my first task was to improve the centre’s reporting facility to see the performance of the centre month by month.

Charity

Helping You to Begin to Analyse Your Data by Location

Most businesses collect data in systems for the purpose of looking up details and to maybe do some basic reporting. The technology revolution (if it can be called that) for us started in the 1990’s where many businesses did not have a computer.

Geospatial

Get More From Your Microsoft Dynamics 365 With Location Intelligence

Mapsimise has a live integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and in real time can help your organisation visualise and work with your active customer data from a single view on a map, or even build several maps for your team to collaborate with your data.

Google Maps

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Let Mapsimise Deliver Your Flowers for You.

It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow so if you have forgotten it’s time to ring the florist, grab a card or pick up something from the garage forecourt on the way home, however, I can say the sack of logs I got last year for my wife did not go down too well.

Geospatial

Helping You Sell Your Noodles With Mapsimise

So, why noodles? Well why not!? It doesn’t matter what you manufacture, sell or distribute to resellers, the fact remains from a search engine to your website your prospects are looking for quick and easy information of how to buy or sample your product.

Geospatial

Getting More From Your SugarCRM With Maps and Geospatial

Technology may change and it definitely enhances what we do on a day to day basis, but the fundamentals of business do stay the same; with the objective to offer great services, products and wow factor to our customers, apart from making money and growing our business empires.

Charity

Helping You to Define Your Marketing Strategies by Location With One Simple Solution

Your marketing and business activity are driven by data and using maps and geospatial tools like Mapsimise can help you select and define target areas and locations where your customers are.