This week's top 5 news stories on LI

Esri announces that Carrefour Group, the second-largest retailer in the world with nearly 10,000 stores around the globe, has implemented an enterprise-wide marketing solution from Esri partner Galigeo. The solution, Geodashboard, incorporates ArcGIS and enhances existing enterprise business intelligence (BI) software to improve decision making....

    

Jack Levis, is known to many readers as “the UPS guy” in the Penn State Public Broadcasting production The Geospatial Revolution. He gave the opening keynote at this year's Location Intelligence Conference in Washington, DC. He basically backed up his now-famous quip about how UPS used to be a trucking company that used technology, but is now a technology company that...

    

Back in April Pitney Bowes Software announced via a message to customers that it would not be holding its Insights User Conference this year, but rather would use the year to revamp the organization. The event is usually held in May or June. The PB Software group includes the software and services of Pitney Bowes, Group1 Software, MapInfo and Portrait Software.  As we...

    

Google announced new location services APIs, a new Google Maps and a visual refresh for Google Maps at Google I/O last week. There was lots of descriptive coverage from the mainstream and tech press. But there was very little response from the geospatial community - except from Esri. Who should or should not be excited about the new Google Maps and APIs?...

    

Galigeo, the worldwide expert of Location Analytics is proud to announce it has been awarded Esri’s Outstanding Partner for 2013 in the Location Analytics category. Galigeo is the sole winner in the Location Analytics for demonstrating practical and innovative solutions. Partners were nominated by various Esri staff and distributors. Receiving...