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Tracking tropical storm Alex’s potential impact on insurance policies with SpatialKey

Insurers and reinsurers alike are always on the lookout for tools that can provide them better predictive analysis and modeling of risk exposure, for example when faced with upcoming hurricanes, floods or other natural disasters. How will their policy portfolio be affected by a hurricane? Where should they dispatch local agents after a natural disaster? [...]

Law enforcement and sales management? Data is data is data.

Although business goals are drastically different from one organization to the other, it’s long been common sense to leverage analytics as much as possible to make decisions. Some organizations put together sophisticated systems to get fact-based answers to their questions, while others hack together whatever system they can afford. The great news is that analytical [...]

Where 2.0 and Crisis Mapping

Our own Doug McCune, SpatialKey engineer extraordinaire, will be presenting a session about Crisis Mapping at Where 2.0 in San Jose this Thursday, April 1st. If you are attending the event, please come to Ballroom III at 4:50pm. Analyzing conflicts via maps is not new. For centuries generals and politicians have moved pushpins on maps to [...]

We make it and use it too

Tom Link, Universal Mind CTO, presented the company’s “state of the business” at a recent internal meeting. And of course, as SpatialKey’s General Manager, he used SpatialKey to more visually highlight sales activities and trends, as well as answer employee questions on the fly. SpatialKey as a visual dashboard is a great example to highlight [...]