Microsoft MapPoint 2009 North America

Visualize your business information: For users focusing on personal productivity and success.

Benefits

• Apply your own business data to maps to instantly see sales trends and performance by geography.
• Incorporate demographics to enhance analysis or narrow down a new business opportunity.
• Make marketing activities more efficient by visually targeting your most relevant customers.
• Customize maps with shapes, annotations, and custom pushpins to communicate key information such as location, competition, and notes.

Features

• Drive-time Zones (DTZ) -- Turn simple routes into an analysis tool by generating drive-time zones to/from a specified location.
• Data Mapping Wizard -- Create maps with your own data. Step-by-step instructions guide you on how to apply your sales information and demographic variables to a variety of map types. Customize your map by defining data range, legend label, and ramp color palette.
• Territories Wizard -- Create maps that group common areas and overlay key information to these regions.
  Data Mapping with Charts -- Associate more data to a map by adding pie and column charts to maps.
• Import/Link Data Wizard -- Step-by-step instructions help you import or link information from Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Outlook® to a MapPoint-based map.
• Import to Pushpins -- Import customer and contact information from Excel, Access, or Outlook to create a map of their locations.

Communicate business information: For the team sharing information and knowledge with others.

Benefits

• Deliver your information effectively and more clearly using maps instead of spreadsheets and data tables.
• Create maps that convey information tailored to your various needs —from sales performance and customer location to driving routes and new business opportunity.
• Get your customers' and colleagues' attention by inserting professional-looking, easy-to-understand maps into your proposals and presentations.
• Show people exactly where they need to be by finding locations on a map and planning the most efficient routes to customers.

Features

• Drawing Tools -- Create maps that fit your needs. Personalize your map with radius circles, ovals, scribble and freeform shapes.
• Map Annotations -- Add custom directions or highlight important areas on your maps using the familiar tools on the drawing toolbar.
• Save as Web Page -- Make your maps more accessible to coworkers who don't have MapPoint. More dynamic maps enable users to fully explore data and map regions.
• Output to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint® -- Easily copy and paste your maps into presentations and proposals.
• Output to Microsoft Publisher -- Incorporate your maps into custom brochures and marketing collateral.
• MapPoint is the leading mapping software for business users. MapPoint's ease-of-use, popular feature set and extensive data enable you to quickly and easily create maps, analyze data within the context of location, and make more informed decisions.

Here's a full list of MapPoint 2009 feature enhancements:

• Improved Live Search integration
  • Over 1.5 million POI embedded in the products
  • Single search box
  • Enhanced POI result set with links to Live Maps yellow page and information details send to mobile integration
• Send to Mobile
  • SMS messaging via Outlook
  • Location information sent directly to your mobile device
  • Link to Live Mobile
• Updated/Improved user interface
  • Updated icons throughout the product
  • Toolbar redesign
  • Pane consistency
• Microsoft Office 12 compatibility
  • Ability to upload Office 2007 Word and Excel file formats
• Additional improvements
  • Updated map data and information on more than 1.5 million locations
  • Configurable spoken street names and automatic re-routing
  • 2.5D improvements (zoom to turn, indicator icon, etc)