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Discover What’s New in MapInfo Pro v2023

Patrick Dubé|September 15, 2023

Explore the latest enhancements and enduring advantages of MapInfo Pro, whether you’re a long-time user or new to mapping solutions. Dive into this article for valuable insights.

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How to Create an Effective EV Strategy

Etienne Lincourt|August 23, 2023

Thinking about adding EV chargers to your stores? We answer the key questions to help you unlock the potential for increased revenue for retail businesses.

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Navigating Cloud Migration Challenges for Data Warehousing

Louis Roy|April 11, 2023

Companies are increasingly migrating their on-premises databases to cloud data warehouses. Korem is here to help your teams in their geo-enablement, demystify the various cloud options available on the market, and overcome your cloud migration challenges.

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Maximizing Bank Success: A Guide to Branch Network Optimization

Gabrielle Lebrun|March 17, 2023

To better meet the changing needs of customers, maximize efficiency, and maintain profitability, banks must make branch network right-sizing decisions using hyperlocal data and a site analysis tool.

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The Missing Ingredient in Your Competitive Landscape Analysis

Gabrielle Lebrun|February 23, 2023

All companies from the smallest startups to multinational corporations can benefit from a competitive landscape analysis, which is considered a key ingredient to success. But they are all missing one thing: the usage of hyperlocal data such as mobility data.

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The Power of Traffic Data for Retail Predictive Analytics

Gabrielle Lebrun|February 9, 2023

To measure store success, static data must be combined with pedestrian and vehicle mobility data, which are a powerful means of predicting sales and adapting supply to demand with the utmost accuracy.

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Building an Efficient EV Infrastructure Strategy With Geospatial

Gabrielle Lebrun|February 8, 2023

Korem can help you develop an effective EV infrastructure strategy through location data and site analytics that will assist you in complying with regulations and meeting increasing customer demand.

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Innovating in Times of Crisis to Stay on Top

Jean-Sébastien Guy|February 1, 2023

Investing in geospatial data and technology now could ensure your business resilience and give you an invaluable competitive advantage in the future.

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The Benefits of Geolocation for the Retail Industry

Gabrielle Lebrun|November 3, 2022

Geolocation can help retailers in the post-pandemic era in three ways: optimizing last-mile delivery, managing new mobility data sources, and building an electric vehicle charging station strategy.

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The Biggest Insurance Industry Challenges Today

Jonathan Houde|November 1, 2022

From a roundtable discussion with six insurance providers, we concluded that there are four main challenges facing the insurance industry: changing risk profiles and risk exposure, massive amounts of insurance data, data security and privacy, and digital modernization.
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InsureTech Connect: Staring Into the Geospatial Abyss – Part 2

Joe Francica|October 11, 2022

At the InsureTech Connect 2022 conference, I learned that the ecosystem for geospatial technology is growing, that the chasm between the need for highly accurate, up-to-date data is huge, and that users are staring into an abyss.

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The Four Main Benefits of Geomarketing

Gabrielle Lebrun|October 6, 2022

Geomarketing makes it easier for you to conduct market research, evaluate sales performance, run targeted marketing campaigns, and optimize logistics.

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When Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) Is No Longer the Standard

Jean-Sébastien Turcotte|October 3, 2022

For years, the retail industry has relied on Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) to understand traffic around existing and planned locations. However, it is no longer an accurate measure as a differentiating indicator because there are now more reliable sources of traffic data available, such as DHT.

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A Chasm No Longer for Geospatial? It’s an Abyss that’s Bigger than Ever.

Joe Francica|August 18, 2022

The gap between technology and expertise continues to widen as the technology, the appetite for new data, and solutions advance as well.

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The Increasing Complexity of Sourcing High-Accuracy, Sensitive Data

Gabrielle Lebrun|July 28, 2022

Data collection is not always done in a transparent manner, and sometimes doesn’t respect confidentiality and privacy considerations. That is why it is in the best interest of organizations to deal with a neutral specialist who can provide advice on sensitive data.

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EV Charging Stations Will Challenge Retailer’s Brand Identities

Joe Francica|July 6, 2022

Currently, EV charging stations are popping up at hotels, malls, and restaurants. This is already transforming trade areas for both fuel retailers and the places where consumers stop for longer periods of time than they would to gas up their ICE cars.

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Last-Mile Delivery Route Optimization with Real-Time Data and Route Planning Applications

Gabrielle Lebrun|June 13, 2022

Having route optimization software is the best way to solve the majority of problems encountered by last-mile delivery providers, whether in terms of efficiency, costs, or customer satisfaction.

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The Revenge of Demographics

Joe Francica|June 8, 2022

If Census geographies are suspect and mobile movement data are subject to limited geographic extents and privacy, what’s the answer? The answer is to use both.

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Improving the Customer Experience in Banking With Geospatial Technology and Data

Gabrielle Lebrun|May 24, 2022

Several banking customer experience trends are likely to emerge and unfold over the next year to meet the changing needs of the public.

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FCC Continues to Map Out Next Steps for Broadband Data Collection

Joe Francica|May 16, 2022

In February 2022, the US Federal Communications Commission set new guidance for delivering information regarding the availability of broadband internet services throughout the United States.

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What is Data as a Service (DaaS)… for Geospatial

Joe Francica|May 9, 2022

DaaS addresses the challenges related to finding or sourcing third-party data, in this case, geospatial data. There are several key benefits of DaaS, such as the discoverability of available data, the ability to streamline procurement, the transaction-based data licensing agreement, and the access to the latest vintage and updates.

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Data as a Service: Dim Sum for Data

Joe Francica|May 2, 2022

The confusing thing about Data as a Service, or DaaS, is that there are so many different kinds from which to choose. A solution provider that has the expertise to customize the technology menu to satisfy the entire banquet of business problems will likely be required.

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The Importance of Data Integrity Before Launching an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Project

Gabrielle Lebrun|April 29, 2022

Before companies can benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), they must first invest in data integrity — in its accuracy and validity throughout its life cycle.

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Traffic Analytics in the Banking Industry for Financial Planning and Forecasting

Gabrielle Lebrun|April 22, 2022

With the rise in popularity of online services, traffic analysis is becoming paramount for banks to make accurate financial forecasts and the best decisions about opening and closing branches.

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How Geospatial Technology Can Help Select Optimal Locations for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Gabrielle Lebrun|April 4, 2022

Access to quality geospatial data and analysis of that data using a geographic information system (GIS) is critical to determining ideal sites for electric vehicle charging stations.

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The Lack of Resources and Expertise Within Companies to Fully Exploit Geospatial Technology

Jean-Sébastien Guy|March 28, 2022

The scarcity of specialized manpower is a growing challenge for innovation-dependent organizations wishing to exploit geospatial technology. Korem has the answer to this problem by combining expertise and an all-in-one solution.

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The Customer-Centric Approach: A Sales Technique That Listens to People

Jean-Sébastien Guy|March 21, 2022

Korem prioritizes a human buying experience to ensure that its clients have access to the most cost-effective geospatial solutions on the market.

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Spatial Capital: A Little-Known Asset for Companies

Stéphane Roche|March 16, 2022

The enlightened use of the spatial dimension of society constitutes, for a company, an unsuspected spatial capital that geospatial expertise makes it possible to bring to fruition.

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Geospatial Expertise: An Undeniable Facilitator for Operational Monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals

Stéphane Roche|March 14, 2022

Geospatial expertise is an essential lever for operational monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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The Benefits of Hyper-Precise Insurance Underwriting Data and Insurance Geocoding for Pricing Policy

Gabrielle Lebrun|March 2, 2022

Insurers are increasingly embracing geospatial technology and, more specifically, hyper-precise insurance underwriting data and insurance geocoding systems to improve pricing policies.

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Geospatial Technology: Invisible but Fundamental to Business Intelligence Solutions

Gabrielle Lebrun|February 11, 2022

Geospatial technology is everywhere, enabling organizations to make better decisions and invest their money more intelligently. But that requires quality data.

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Pinpointing Demand for High-Speed Wireless with Location Technology

Saad Lahrech|January 31, 2022

With the fast expansion of the 5G network and the high demand for cell phones, carriers are looking to increase the capacity of their networks with location technology.

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Insurance Companies Look to Digital Earth Imagery When Disasters Happen

Joe Francica|January 24, 2022

Aerial or satellite Earth observation imagery allows insurance companies to quickly and efficiently assess damage, identify fraudulent claims and save costs.

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Using Foot Traffic Data to Discover Retail Success

Jean-Sébastien Turcotte|December 20, 2021

Foot traffic data contributes to the creation of a model for retail store success. It helps measure customer attraction, understand local demographics and the impact of competition.

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Retail Traffic Analytics is not a Trivial Pursuit

Jean-Sébastien Turcotte|December 14, 2021

Traffic analysis has many benefits, such as understanding sales performance and consumer behavior, as well as better competitive intelligence. There are several ways to use vehicular traffic data, which deliver accurate, comprehensive traffic counts.

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Geospatial Technology Takes on Cloud-Native Platforms

Jonathan Houde|October 26, 2021

With 85% of enterprise data having a geospatial component, there is an undeniable need for both, geocentric platforms, like GIS, geo-enabled BI solutions that support end users, and elastic data lakehouses needed by corporate IT environments.

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Choosing Geospatial Software? Sometimes It’s Apples vs. Oranges

Joe Francica|October 13, 2021

Reports that include lists of “the best” or “highest CX score” should be read with caution as they often lump all GIS solutions into a common bucket.

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Location Platforms: Korem’s Take on the Omdia Report

Joe Francica|October 5, 2021

OMDIA published its report “Location Platform Index” in which they assessed and ranked the vendors of location and mapping platforms and services. We offer our opinion on the report.

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Let’s Look at The Latest Update For Precisely MapInfo Pro (V2021)

David Boucher|October 4, 2021

Overview of the new features: Time series capabilities, “Select by Attribute” tool, Expanded GDAL file format support, Tiled Server reprojection, Multi-Resolution Virtual Raster (MVR) & support for paging in WFS.
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How the Location of Things and Autonomous Vehicles Will Transform Transportation Logistics

Joe Francica|September 10, 2021

How geospatial analytics can be leveraged to plan for the inevitable growth of the urban environment.

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