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grey matter software know how Why use Maps in Apps? Over 80% of business data contains a geospatial element. Mapping technology can help to differentiate your applications by visualising your data in different perspectives. More than 75% of apps published across the Windows Store, iTunes and Google Play use some form of mapping or GPS technology. Opportunities for business apps: Managing your customer relationships, supply chains, fleet or other assets are all business functions which benefit from visualising data in the context of location. Bing Maps integrated with CRM and ERP applications enables organisations to view business-critical data in the context of time and place. Opportunities for consumer apps: Consumers are relying more and more on mobile technology for everyday tasks such as finding a restaurant to make a reservation, hailing a cab via Hailo, or checking the 5-day weather forecast. These features in mobile apps all require geocoding services which are integral to any cloud-based maps platform. Bing Maps and Apps Bing Maps provides several unique features that make its services and APIs the best choice for app developers in the consumer and enterprise space. At the heart of Windows and Windows Phone Since Microsoft’s road-map for Windows was re- designed to serve multiple form factors across a huge range of devices, they have engineered Bing Maps as an integral part of the Windows platform. This means improved performance, and using Continuum, you now have the ability to develop apps that seamlessly visualise your data across any form factor. Your App. Why Bing Maps?
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Why use Maps in Apps?
Over 80% of business data contains a geospatial element. Mapping technology can help to differentiate your applications by visualising your data in different perspectives. More than 75% of apps published across the Windows Store, iTunes and Google Play use some form of mapping or GPS technology.
Opportunities for business apps: Managing your customer relationships, supply chains, fleet or other assets are all business functions which benefit from visualising data in the context of location. Bing Maps integrated with CRM and ERP applications enables organisations to view business-critical data in the context of time and place.
Opportunities for consumer apps: Consumers are relying more and more on mobile technology for everyday tasks such as finding a restaurant to make a reservation, hailing a cab via Hailo, or checking the 5-day weather forecast. These features in mobile apps all require geocoding services which are integral to any cloud-based maps platform.
Bing Maps and Apps
Bing Maps provides several unique features that make its services and APIs the best choice for app developers in the consumer and enterprise space.
At the heart of Windows and Windows PhoneSince Microsoft’s road-map for Windows was re-designed to serve multiple form factors across a huge range of devices, they have engineered Bing Maps as an integral part of the Windows platform. This means improved performance, and using Continuum, you now have the ability to develop apps that seamlessly visualise your data across any form factor.
Your App. Why Bing Maps?
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Familiar ToolsBing Maps presents developers with familiar tools, and as the visualisation layer, provides seamless integration across the Microsoft stack: SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics ERP, Azure, Excel, Windows 10, Microsoft .NET, Office 365, Visual Studio and Windows Phone.
Rich Integrated DataBing Maps for Enterprise has been bringing together maps, imagery, traffic and other content from providers including HERE, Digital Globe, Zenrin and many more for over fifteen years, to provide an enterprise-grade mapping service used by thousands of commercial and public sector customers and developers worldwide.
Bing Maps is the only mapping platform where you can overlay Ordnance Survey data. This is pertinent if developing for government departments who already have a PMSA Ordnance Survey Agreement in place.
Cloud Services give you global scaleBing Maps was one of Microsoft’s first commercial cloud services; it is a proven enterprise-grade service for your applications. Through the content data network, enterprise support, scalability, and 99.9% availability backed up by an SLA, Bing Maps is there as and when your app needs it.
Global coverage, almost every languageBing Maps is available in over 100 languages and has many other localisation settings, making it easy to customise your user’s experience with minimal re-development requirements.
Cost effective and simple licensing optionsBing Maps licensing is designed with developers in mind. Grey Matter has developed a Licensing Guide with more detail to help you make the right choice. As there are many options and Terms of Use to navigate, the licensing specialists at Grey Matter are on hand to help.
Technical support as and when you need itThe Grey Matter Bing Maps specialists are available during UK office hours. Outside of this time, the Bing Maps service includes 24/7 online support, and 08:00 - 02:00 GMT phone support for Enterprise customers.
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The Application Developer’s Opportunity
Five examples where you can use Bing Maps to enhance the features and benefits of your application:
1. Big Data: Improve the potential for growth by providing in-depth demographic and infrastructure information to inform capital investment decisions.
2. Supply Chain Management: Create transparent production and distribution lines from suppliers to customers, and help companies anticipate factors that may affect delivery.
3. Sales Performance: Create solutions that provide customers with the tools that they need to analyse sales activity by location and identify underserved markets.
4. Real-Time Tracking: Use Windows Phone and Bing Maps to develop an app that tracks a consumers’ driving behaviour. This provides insurers with critical information to rank drivers and provide them with relevant insurance premiums.
5. Consumer Travel: Use Bing Maps 3D data to build an intuitive and informative travel app.
Excellent Map data and imagery
Content within Bing Maps is regularly updated every month for road maps and two years for imagery.
Bing Map’s high standards for data quality are backed up by:
• quality testing over 80,000 data sources• continuous testing for quality improvement and continuous changes in the road network• database validation and compilation• publication of data• collection and verification by local experts as it exists in the real world
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Bing Maps offers beautiful imagery alongside an effective base vector map style. The maps provide users with many options such as:
Aerial: Provides crystal clear views with amazing detail.
Birds Eye imagery: A unique viewing perspective. Spin and circle three-dimensional landscapes with incredible speed and accuracy.
3D cities: Experience cities in 3D with the Bing Maps Preview app.
Offline Maps: Now you can take your maps offline with Windows 10.
How to bring your app to lifeLearn more about integrating Bing Maps with your apps at: [email protected]
Check out Bing Maps developer tools on the Microsoft Developers Network: www.bing.com/dev/en-us/dev-center
Request a free Bing Maps Developer Account:www.greymatter.com/mcm/bingmapscontact
Contact our mapping team by phone or email about your licensing requirements: +44 (0)1364 655133 or: [email protected]
Grey Matter is the authorised Microsoft EMEA and APAC Bing Maps Distributor.
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