LISLE, IL--(Marketwire - November 3, 2010) - VisTracks™ (www.vistracks.com), a leading provider of platform as a service (PaaS) technology for position and movement analytics announced today the addition of a new offering in its product portfolio. Before today, visualizing and analyzing dynamic position and movement data was costly and time consuming. The new VisTracks Dashboard complements and uses the VisTracks Platform in the cloud. It helps businesses capitalize on real-time opportunity by broadening access to real-time position and movement data called Position Facts.
Position Facts are time-stamped streamed data with rich location and attribute information. The surge of position fact data and the demand for analysis on this new data type is the result of a number of business and technology drivers, including:
- Corporate interest in capitalizing on location of moving assets, resources and people to support business growth and increased service levels to customers.
- Mass adoption of M2M (machine to machine) initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Economic drivers to improve MRM (mobile resource management) in fleets, mobile workforces and distributed organizations.
- Shift of focus by carriers such as Sprint, Verizon and AT&T to connect assets and resources.
- Proliferation of Smart Phones with GPS, PNDs (personal navigation devices) and other connected devices and sensors.
- Advances and adoption of cloud and mobile client technology.
The dashboard provides professional and part-time business analysts with the ability to immediately examine this new data type in real-time through a browser-based client. The dashboard application provides analysts with an effortless starting point to graphically and geospatially explore, analyze data across time, and to take action based on most recent location information.
"VisTracks continues to lead with the easiest, and most powerful approach to simplifying location intelligence, tracking and analysis technology," said Ed Marquardt, Vice President, Strategic Technology, Potomac Fusion, Inc. "We've examined the new dashboard approach from VisTracks and are examining ways it might be implemented as there's nothing like it available today to match new and emerging requirements."
Using the VisTracks Dashboard, analysts enter simple expressions in SQL or the R language (The R Project for Statistical Computing) to query and visualize data as it changes in real-time. Libraries of queries can be published in standardized dashboards to provide real-time insight to entire communities of enterprise users. Hundreds of thousands of SQL and R users are instantly productive with this innovative approach and graphical user interface. A unique, easy to use, and powerful query-based configuration interface eliminates the need for software development or complex customization to get started.
"This new product is in direct response to our customers asking us to 'make it simple,'" said Steve Eick, Founder and CEO of VisTracks. "The new dashboard puts location analytics into users' hands quickly and frees IT from traditional software development intensive approaches. Geospatial business intelligence projects delayed due to prohibitive cost, effort or schedule can be delivered in a fraction of the time and can quickly generate value for users and ROI."
VisTracks partners benefit by providing immediate value to users with configurable solutions. All M2M solutions can benefit from the VisTracks Dashboard. This includes industries deploying Mobile Resource Management including: Construction, Education, Field Services, Finance, Government/Public Safety, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Retail, Transportation/Distribution, and Utilities.
The VisTracks Dashboard is available immediately. Contact VisTracks by email, sales@vistracks.com.
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About VisTracks
VisTracks (www.vistracks.com) provides a cloud-based Position and Movement Analytics™ platform for solutions providers and partners who need to develop software to sense, record, react, analyze, predict and visualize real-time, and ongoing location-specific data streams. The VisTracks system is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that provides programmable web services for advanced statistics, tracking, rules-based notification and visualizing spatially relevant analysis of data. Unlike alternatives, the VisTracks platform creates business value out of a new class of data by enabling rapid creation and deployment of solutions through an API framework in a cloud-based platform and SDK.
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