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BusinessMAP Travel Edition Now Available
Nationwide Route Planner with Integrated Dun & Bradstreet Business
Listings
Redlands, California--ESRI, the world leader in geographic information
system (GIS) software, today announced the availability of BusinessMAP
Travel Edition, a mapping tool for the business traveler.
BusinessMAP Travel Edition major feature attractions are:
Direct links from ACT!, GoldMine, Outlook, and Excel, as well as reading
data from Access, dBASE, text files, and many other applications.
Business locator with Dun & Bradstreet's database of 11 million business
listings searchable by business name, location, eight-digit SIC, or type
of business is available on your map.
Door-to-door driving directions for routing between customer locations.
Optimized routing to multiple stops using the traveling salesman
solution.
"Find Nearby" feature to locate hotels, restaurants, rental agencies,
gas stations, hospitals, and any other type of business that you may
desire.
Complete customization of toolbars and menu selections.
The ability to save maps and driving directions to your Palm organizer.
The ability to print maps in sizes that range from day planner to
multipanel wall charts that are helpful in preparing presentations.
"Our newest database mapping software is much more than a travel
planner. BusinessMAP Travel Edition offers the business traveler access
to the complete Dun & Bradstreet business listing searchable down to
8-digit SIC/description. This permits a very narrow search for potential
customers, competitors, and points of interest," said Bill McNeil,
manager of ESRI's Business Products Group. "Moreover, this software is
now so easy to use that virtually anyone can create, populate, and print
a map quickly."
The Dun & Bradstreet business listings consist of a list of 11 million
U.S. businesses. Unlike some "Yellow Page" databases, BusinessMAP Travel
Edition sorts all of these companies by their eight-digit U.S.
government SIC codes. The database includes business name, address,
city, state, ZIP Code, telephone, latitude/longitude, SIC/business
Description, type of site (headquarters/branch), annual sales, and
number of employees (where available).
Users can search the business listings database using ordinary words,
such as "automotive" or "legal services," or do combined searches by
business category or geographic location to find and instantly create
maps of business prospects in a certain city or ZIP Code, for example.
Search results are plotted on the map and can be viewed in the
BusinessMAP database window. Exporting of the Dun & Bradstreet data is
available at additional cost.
BusinessMAP Travel Edition provides street-level address-to-address
routing for the entire United States. The user can perform both simple
routes and optimized routes between multiple locations. Detailed
turn-by-turn directions are created for print or download to your Palm
or other organizer using the Palm operating system. This provides a
convenient, organized way of managing your maps and trip directions.
Complete customization of toolbars and menu selections permits the user
to design a user interface that meets his/her specific need. It is easy
to add, remove, or relocate buttons and menu commands to a location that
simplifies a specific use of the software. Each user interface design
can be saved as a workspace for reuse. There is also an integrated
printing utility that enables BusinessMAP Travel Edition users to print
the maps they create in sizes that range from day planner to multipanel
wall charts helpful in preparing presentations. The BusinessMAP Travel
Edition package also includes what many users have asked for-updated
2001 boundaries for postal ZIP Codes and new links to software used to
track business contacts such as ACT!, GoldMine, Microsoft Outlook, and
Excel.
BusinessMAP Travel Edition is priced at $49.95 and is available at Micro
Center and directly from ESRI by calling 1-800-970-0033. BusinessMAP
Travel Edition can also be purchased online from ESRI's GIS Store at
gisstore.esri.com.
BusinessMAP Travel Edition is available for Windows 95 (with service
pack 2), Windows NT/98/Me/2000, or XP operating systems. For more
information, please visit ESRI on the Web at www.esri.com/busmap_travel
Press Information:
Jim Baumann, ESRI
Tel.: 909-793-2853, extension 1-1807
E-mail (press only): press@esri.com
General Information: info@esri.com
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