I wrote this yesterday at the AWhere Blog: Geo-Analytics Transforms CA Politics.  It’s a story told in ever-increasing zoom about how the Proposition 8 opponents Google Mapped the pro-Prop8 donors.  An interesting and intense demonstration of how location intelligence and mapping creates actionable insight.

Final Screen Shot: Street View, Anyone?

We’ve been talking about location intelligence and geo-analytics for a while now, both here and at the AWhere blog.  As the economy shifts into epochal distress, every point of leverage much be engaged to create or maintain a competitive advantage.  The other choice is the drama felt by every company gracing the front page of [...]

It’s been a great summer over at AWhere, where breakthroughs in geo-analysis, location intelligence and busines map mashups have come one right after another.

CPG Vision lets category managers at consumer package goods companies visualize the entirety of their Retail Link data from WalMart, and correlate it with demographic data from Neilsen as well as weather [...]

News junkies, commodity traders and climate change scientists are all tracking last week’s midwest flooding, noting the confluence of impacts, including global commodity prices, US food costs, regional property damage, ethanol futures.  All of this is, of course, written in the context of the upcoming US election, and all the subterfuge within.
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(note: here’s a version of a piece I ran over at AWhere’s new blog. Check it out for good info on 2008’s biggest trend in business intelligence (BI).)
TechWeb published the Executive Summary of Ventana Research’s new benchmark survey on the impact of location and geo-analytics on business intelligence practices in the enterprise, calling it [...]