MapInfo Announces Winners of Inaugural Meridian Awards; MapInfo's Most Innovative Location Intelligent Customers Honored at MapWorld 2006.PHOENIX & TROY, N.Y. -- MapInfo Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MAPS), the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, today announced the winners of the 2006 MapInfo Meridian Awards(TM). This awards program recognizes MapInfo customers who are driving business innovation with dynamic uses of location intelligence technology. Companies from all over the world submitted entries. The winners in five categories are: --Organizational Impact -- Blockbuster, Inc. With MapInfo, Blockbuster developed the Blockbuster Ultimate Location Intelligence Tool (BULIT), a premier application that supports numerous departments, including development, marketing, operations, finance, diversity, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and alternate brands and products. For instance, with BULIT, employees are able to view and analyze information on both brick-and-mortar and online consumers and analyze the impact of adding, closing or relocating a Blockbuster within a market. The application is so useful that it is now used in many of Blockbuster's international divisions including Canada, UK, Mexico, Australia and Taiwan. Runner Up -- Pennsylvania One Call System, Inc. --Changing the World -- State of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. Department of Health and Hospitals, Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health A 2003 MapInfo eGovernment Grant Winner, the State of Louisiana's Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health uses MapInfo solutions to better evaluate transportation issues, engage in strategic planning projects and develop better visual information. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Bureau used MapInfo solutions to assess the status of the department's employees, health care facilities and providers. It mapped where employees had moved from, moved to, and how far away. The Bureau is now working with FEMA FEMA, n.pr See Federal Emergency Management Agency. to evaluate the relationship between potential housing sites and health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract . Runner Up -- Massachusetts Department of Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales --Technical Achievement -- Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn AG (abbr. DB AG, DBAG or simply DB) is the successor of the former state railways of Germany: the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany, the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the German Democratic Republic and the West Berlin VdeR. Netz AG GSM-R GSM-R Global System for Mobile Communication - Railway (European Railway Wireless Standard) is a new standard for wireless rail telecommunications and with MapInfo technology, German-based Deutsche Bahn Netz AG is the first company in the world to implement a fully operating digital, mobile communication system for traffic control and other communications to reach engine drivers, maintenance crews and other personnel working on the railway network--on the track or at stations. Called GSM-R, the services are set up through a single and easy-to-use geographical application interface, delivering huge savings in time, resources and costs. It is able to analyze the geographical relationship between train locations, dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. responsibilities and network coverage, offering a visual control over which network cells can be configured for specific call types and locations. Runner Up -- Citywide Service Solutions of Australia --Unique & Unusual -- Suquamish Tribe The Suquamish Tribe relies on MapInfo software alongside digital nautical charts See: hydrographic chart. to provide geographic coordination for the native tribe's annual canoe journey along the waters of the Pacific Northwest. Daily guide maps made with MapInfo software enable the tribe to navigate safely by indicating each day's proposed route and distance, any possible hazards, stops, emergency access points and aerial photos of the destination. Runner Up -- Interacademy Institute of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw --People's Choice -- HomeGain, Inc. With more than four million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month, HomeGain is the second largest real estate site in the world. Consumers can browse real estate listings, recently sold homes and resumes of 80,000 realtors across the country. HomeGain turned to MapInfo to develop an application that allows home buyers to search for homes by neighborhood, not just ZIP Codes. With MapInfo Professional MapInfo Professional is a Geographic Information System software product produced by MapInfo Corporation. MapInfo Professional has the ability to combine and display, on a single map, data from a variety of sources that are in different formats and projections. (R), it identified and mapped more than 200 cities and 11,000 individual neighborhood boundaries. As a result, HomeGain has developed several contracts with mapping companies, newspapers, other real estate firms and search engines to leverage this information. Presentation of the awards occurred yesterday at MapWorld 2006, MapInfo's 13th annual global user conference. The judges were made up of a cross-section of MapInfo executives and industry experts, including Mark Smith, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and senior vice president of Research and Advisory Services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal , Ventana Research. "The annual MapWorld conference is a forum for location intelligent people to network, learn and share new strategies for maximizing their work resources. The Meridian Awards are a natural extension of this, honoring the many unique ways in which our customers use MapInfo location intelligence solutions to help their organizations make smarter business decisions, increase productivity and create new solutions for existing problems," said Mark Cattini, president and CEO, MapInfo. "We thank all the organizations that participated in this year's awards program. We intend to make the Meridian Awards an annual tradition, and continue to recognize the outstanding enterprises that are driving organizational change through the innovative use of location intelligence and helping all of us become more location intelligent." For more information about this year's Meridian Award winners, please visit www.mapinfo.com/meridianawardwinners. About MapInfo Corporation MapInfo is a global company and the leading provider of location intelligence solutions, integrating software, data and services to provide greater value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions for businesses and government organizations around the world. MapInfo solutions are available in 20 languages through a network of strategic partners and distribution channels in 60 countries. Headquartered in Troy, N.Y., MapInfo is on the World Wide Web at www.mapinfo.com. MapInfo, MapInfo Meridian Awards and MapInfo Professional are trademarks of MapInfo Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates. Of Note This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. involving risks and uncertainties. Any statement not a statement of historical fact is a forward-looking statement, including without limitation statements concerning demand for and benefits of MapInfo products and integration of MapInfo products with existing solutions. Actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those factors contained in the Company's most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the heading "Factors Affecting Future Performance." MapInfo takes no responsibility to update any forward-looking statements. |
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