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Microsoft MapPoint visualizes and analyses geographic data.

MapPoint is particularly interesting for the following business areas:

• Sales planning and sales area optimisation 
• Location planning 
• Location analysis 
• Marketing 
• Sales 
• Service 
• Controlling 
• Business cockpit 
• Administrative office 
• Routing planning

Businesses will find Microsoft MapPoint 2010 a great support. In order to make better use of your existing potential, just present your data such as sales figures, purchasing power data or customer locations in a map. You can see at a single glance where sales where high or low.

Use the diverse yet easy to use functions of Microsoft MapPoint such as:

• Search addresses or locations (geocoding) 
• Create maps 
• Plan and optimize routes
• Create travel time zones
• Analyze and visualise data
• Create and administer sales areas 
• Import data (eg from Excel, Outlook, Access, SQL Server, ODBC, OLEDB) 
• Export data to Excel 
• Save, print and export maps
• Integrate maps and data into Microsoft Office products

You have a large range of up to date map data at your disposal. There is no need to purchase additional expensive data before you can start. The road network by NAVTEQ (as of 2008) is provided in detail for the following countries:

Belgium  Denmark  Germany  Finland  France  Greece  United Kingdom  Italy  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Norway  Austria  Portugal  Sweden  Switzerland  Spain

Limited road maps without address search function are provided for the following countries:

Andorra  Bulgaria  Estonia  Guernsey  Ireland  Isle of Man  Jersey  Croatia  Latvia  Liechtenstein  Lithuania  Monaco  Poland  Romania  San Marino  Slovakia  Slovenia  Czech Republic  Hungary  Vatican City

Furthermore, postal areas (PLZ5, PLZ3, PLZ2) and administrative borders (states, regions, municipalities) are already integrated and can be used for map images, data assignment and sales areas.

Aside from the map material, you can also use up to 70 demographic variables such as:

Area size Population  Net income of private households  Population of working age Students, pensioners, unemployed  Private household hobbies (high tech, sports cars,...) These are coded by country, state, district, city region, postal area and survey area. The coding criteria vary from country to country. For the following countries you can use country specific demographic variables on different administrative levels: Germany  France  United Kingdom  Italy  Netherlands  Austria  Switzerland  Spain

For all other countries, there is still a great range of demographic data available on the national level.

Microsoft MapPoint can be integrated seamlessly into the world of Microsoft Office products. Simply insert your maps via the clipboard into Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Word. Edit, visualise and analyse your data in Microsoft Excel. Link or import data from Excel, Access or SQL Server with Microsoft MapPoint and update them dynamically. Microsoft MapPoint can be connected to almost every database system (SQL Server, Orade, DB2, Access etc.), CRM (Microsoft Dynamics CRM, ACT!, SAGE etc.).

If you would like to know which parameters exist in the immediate surroundings, you can create radii, travel time zones and individual areas and export the content of the data to Microsoft Excel and then edit it further.

Often, however, there are natural borders such as lakes, rivers, mountains, which render this evaluation too imprecise. If you are after more precise evaluations, create travel time zones.

From A to B via C with a break in D? No problem at all if you are using the routing functions of Microsoft MapPoint. Define start and finish time, breaks and customer calls and optimize your routes. Avoid side trips and apply the work load process – all with MapPoint.

You import data from Excel, visualise and analyse it with MapPoint, write reports with Word and save the data into your databases. Use the strengths of the individual programs – with MapPoint.

You would like to export data and use it in other programs? No problem at all. It only takes a few steps to export your data.

• Simply draw a diagram over the relevant area, e.g. a catchment area (circle)
• Then mark the area 
• Activate the context menu with the right mouse button (alternatively, open the data in the menu and then select export to Excel) 
• Select export to Excel

Now all your data contained in the circle is exported.

You have address data or other spatial data. Present your data on maps. Use the geocoding function in MapPoint 2010. You only need a table with secondary spatial information such as the post code, city, state or street. The smaller the spatial level, the greater the geocoding accuracy. You can geocode right down to the street number if the data is available for the desired area. MapPoint 2010 compares your data table to the internal data and positions the object in the right place.

Excel document with attribute data (postcode, town, street and house number)

You can import data from a wide range of applications such as: Microsoft Excel  Microsoft Access  Microsoft SQL Server  Microsoft Outlook  Microsoft AutoRoute Express  ODBC  OLEDB  Text data (text, Ascii, csv) Simply use the data import assistant or the data connection assistant. The latter lets you dynamically update your data. If the source data changes, you can transfer these changes straight into MapPoint. This eliminates constant reimporting – yet your data stays up to date.

Data-import-wizard

You would like to create homogenous areas for your sales planning. Use the functions of Microsoft MapPoint. Create areas based on administrative borders or post codes.

• Completely updated map material 
• Updated sociodemographic and market data
• Bing integration (display of aerial and satellite images)
• Pocket Streets lets you create user defined maps in MapPoint and then export these to a Microsoft Windows Mobile ® based smart phone or Pocket PC
• The new Microsoft Location Finder shows the current position on a map via wireless internet and known Wi-Fi Access Points, even without a GPS device
• Advanced GPS features (only for GPS Edition) 
• Voice and text activation
• Innovative map display for bad lighting conditions provides a better view of maps on laptops