NAVTEQ® Map Selected by Galigeo to Power Geospatial Business Intelligence

Veldhoven – March 29, 2012 – Nokia today announced that its Location & Commerce unit has agreed to supply European and North American NAVTEQ Map data to Galigeo to enable its Location Intelligence solutions to support better analytics-based decision-making. The combination of Geographic Information Systems with Business Intelligence introduces the ‘Where’ factor and supports map-based visualisation of analytics which can reveal spatial relationships, dependencies and trends which are otherwise difficult to uncover – in short Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI).

Headquartered in Paris with offices in both Brussels and New York, Galigeo is a pioneer and specialist in this fast growing field, providing applications which enable organisations to gain critical insights, make better decisions and optimise business processes and applications.

“By integrating the NAVTEQ Map into our Location Intelligence applications, we can develop total solutions and offer customers accurate, high quality data. The addition of the geocoding and reverse geocoding functions available with the NAVTEQ Map also supports flexible data input and output. Overall, this will significantly improve GeoBI analysis and facilitate the decision-making process” explained Galigeo CEO, Christian Tapia-Stocker.

GeoBI supports optimisation in many areas including data visualization and reporting; geomarketing and trade area analysis; regulatory and environmental compliance; resource allocation; network infrastructure monitoring; and sales territory management. Galigeo currently focuses on developing solutions for retail, pharmaceutical, telecoms, utilities and government organisations.

“Whether an address, a sales territory, a delivery route or an administrative boundary, location is a central factor in business and GeoBI is an emerging market with huge potential,” added Peter Beaumont, Director Customer Marketing, Enterprise Europe, Nokia, Location & Commerce. “Galigeo is fast becoming an international brand leader in this new arena where standard specification data and accurate geocoding are critical to solutions which can successfully help small, medium or large organisations better understand their businesses.”

Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia's technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia.

Location & Commerce, a business unit of Nokia, aims to build and monetize unique location experiences for great mobile products, the navigation industry and the automotive market. Location & Commerce provides both Content, including industry leading NAVTEQ® Maps, and Social Location Services, including the Nokia Location Platform and signatures applications like Nokia Maps ™ and Nokia Drive, all supported by Local Commerce. By complementing hardware, software and services with “smart” social location data, users will be able to experience the world in a variety of new and better ways.

Since 2001, Galigeo has been providing value-added software solutions in Geospatial Business Intelligence. By combining geographical dimensions with existing data from business intelligence applications, Galigeo enables organizations to gain critical insights from enhanced Business Analytics. The company’s innovative solutions and unique expertise are focused on improving Sales Territory Management, Resource Planning & Allocation, Infrastructure & Network Monitoring, Site Selection & Trade Area Analysis, and Regulatory & Environmental Compliance.  Galigeo is trusted by some of the world’s largest companies and governmental organisations.  For more information on Galigeo, please visit www.galigeo.com. Join Galigeo on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Galigeo and Twitter at @galigeo.

NAVTEQ® Maps Power Audi Connected Car Technology Research

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, is joining with Audi and three leading U.S. universities to further the Audi Urban Intelligent Assist (AUIA) project. The goal of the project is to develop connected car technologies that reduce congestion, improve safety and make driving less stressful in increasingly chaotic and rapidly growing urban centers around the world. The universities will be supplied with NAVTEQ® Map data to support their pursuit of developing state of the art innovations and solutions for the connected car.
NAVTEQ Maps include data which can specifically support Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), such as Geometry, Slope and Height. Relying on these ADAS capabilities, future Audi models could be able to help drivers better detect and avoid dangerous situations. The universities will also have access to NAVTEQ Map data such as Traffic Patterns™, Speed Limits, Enhanced 3D City Models, Enhanced Junction Views and POIs. This broad offering supports Audi's vision of developing models that will know preferred destinations, routes the motorist's have most commonly traveled and the time needed to reach appointments. The Audi Urban Intelligent Assist project will run through 2013.
"NAVTEQ Maps were a clear choice to power the Audi Urban Intelligent Assist research initiative," said Mario Tippelhofer, Electronics Research Laboratory. "The automotive grade quality of the data, as well as their commitment to development and innovation in the automotive industry, demonstrates why they are a trusted and valued supplier."
To stay at the forefront of in-vehicle technology, Audi is engaging the best universities to solve tomorrow's challenges. The Audi Urban Intelligent Assist project, a research initiative launched by Audi together with its Electronics Research Laboratory in Silicon Valley and three top U.S. universities – the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Diego - will develop technologies to take the connected car, driver assistance and infrastructure electronics to the next level. Audi envisions that future connected Audi vehicles will take care of all the things that make driving in the city tedious and dangerous, so that motorists can enjoy the drive and get to where they want to go efficiently, safely and comfortably.
"We are dedicated to providing the highest level of automotive grade quality data to support research development and innovation in the industry," said Dave Dale, Vice President of Americas Sales, NAVTEQ. "Projects such as these reinforce that NAVTEQ Maps and our premium content not only add value to the automotive industry today, but will continue to play a significant role in automotive solutions of the future."

About NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of location content in the form of maps, traffic and places data that enables navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world. NAVTEQ supplies precise, comprehensive location content to power automotive navigation systems, portable and wireless devices, Internet-based mapping applications and government and business solutions. The Chicago-based company was founded in 1985 and has approximately 5,500 employees located in 202 offices in 53 countries.