Pitney Bowes MapInfo (Booth 6039) recently released the MapInfo Professional 9.0, the latest version of the company’s flagship application for business mapping and analysis. The enhanced MapInfo Professional offers several new advantages, including support for the Microsoft Windows Vista platform, enhanced database support, direct access to more data formats and the power to combine time and location-based analysis.

Key upgrades include direct access to new geographic or infrastructure data formats, including CAD and competing vendors. This feature facilitates product use, saving translation time and effort for end users while simplifying data management. The new data access capability allows users to add up to 150 additional formats. This capability lets customers analyze almost any data format directly from MapInfo Professional. In addition, Pitney Bowes has added time-based data support to permit correlations between location and time-based activity and greater deployment flexibility. This enables organizations to meet today’s diverse IT requirements, including the deployment of MapInfo Professional via silent installs, which facilitates automated deployments of MapInfo Professional to large groups of users, to best fit organizational needs. With support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Citrix and Terminal services, flexible deployment options mean the investment of less IT time.