End of Financial Year "stimulus"

The end of Financial Year is coming.  For MDS "enticements" contact your Account Manager directly, email MDS or phone on +61 2 8436 2800 for further information.

Subscription renewals remain high - why? 

Value for money $$

MDS’ Managing Director Laurie Edwards is absolutely delighted with the high retention and renewal rate of existing subscription licences for MDS’ Digitised Mapping Data & QuickLocate geocoders’ Subscriptions!

Some of the reasons given by customers for continuing their investment with MDS comes down to Quality, Timeliness and Customer Support.  The high quality of the data, updates and documentation is key to every GIS solution. It is, however, the emphasis on timely and accurate customer support that strengthens and continues this partnership with our customers.

"We find the QuickLocate 3 Geocoder to be an essential part of our Route Optimisation project's success and is now an essential software tool assisting our normal business operations.  We also find that it assists in verifying and cleaning up our customer address data - a fantastic "value add" to using the software." Sammy W. - Senior Business Analyst (Transport Industry)

Retailers embrace the "power of the postcode" - Tactician Online

Have you noticed.... more and more retailers are asking for your postcode when you pay at the cash register!

MDS is seeing an increase in requests for consulting services and subscriptions for their Tactician Online service based on businesses capturing and applying customer-based postcode information. Read the full story

Earthquakes - How Shaky is Australia 

Korumburra, south east of Melbourne, has been experiencing a sequence of earthquakes this year.  Does Australia have more earthquakes than we realise?  Is your property safe from the destructive powers of an earthquake?

The ABC News recently ran the headline, "Australians unaware of earthquake risk", which goes some way to answering the question - Read the story. 

MDS' Natural Hazards Risk Ratings' online service is built with Risk Frontiers, experts in the impact of natural hazards including earthquakes, on individual properties throughout Australia (where data is available).  They quantify a property's exposure based on the Australian building code which describes the risk as the probability of an earthquake returning within a 475 year period.  This is also used by insurers in calculating your premiums.

Foreshocks, Mainshocks and Aftershock.  Risk Frontiers explains the science of earthquakes in their recent Newsletter, read more.

To know how your property is at risk of Natural Hazards, request a Property Report now.

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Watch out Canberra here we come.

MDS will be exhibiting at the upcoming spatial@gov conference to be held in the National Convention Centre, Canberra

The title of the event is "Location as an enabler for Government Business" and will be held on the 15th and 16th June. 

Come and see us at Stand 16. MDS' theme:

"Experts in Digital Mapping and a provider of Vendor, Platform and Data independent GIS Professional Services."

Margreet would welcome a chance to catch-up, why not contact here via email or during the conference on +61 (0) 438 310 515.

For those outside of Government looking for spatial products, services and advice, please feel free to contact us to arrange a meeting while we are in town.  We will be more than happy to discuss all of your mapping needs.

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Mark Stratford to head up "Professional Services" team

With the increase in customers looking for advice and services from GIS experts, MDS has responded with a new team.  The MDS Professional Services team will apply its GIS expertise in helping business become more efficient, lower their costs and to better understanding their daily operations.

To lead this team required someone special and Mark Stratford was the standout choice.  Mark began working in the GIS industry in 1994, after completing an Environmental Science degree, majoring in Geography.  He started with ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation) and then MapInfo in 1995 and MDS in 1999.  In his time at MDS, Mark has succeeded in a number of  roles covering Data Manager, Network Admin, Consulting, Database Manager and Operations Manager.

We welcome Mark into his new role and, with his team of experts, all projects are bound to exceed expectations!

If you would like to better understand how your organisation could utilise the Professional Services team, please contact MDS via email or +61 2 8436 2800.

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Eagle Boys Dial-A-Pizza uses science to build market share

Eagle Boys have been determining and defining their franchise territories using Tactician Online for a number of years.  Expanding the application of Tactician Online in areas such as demographic analysis and location intelligence, has enabled more informed decision making.  Read the press release

For more information on how Tactician Online can help you analyse your market or for advice in Geo-Demographic analysis, please contact Tony Maber via email or phone +61 2 8436 2845.

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It happens on one night......every 5 years.  It's designed to count the number and key characteristics of people in Australia and the type of dwelling they live in.  The government uses this information for electoral purposes, distributing government funds such as the GST and determining the number of seats allocated to each State and Territory in the House of Representatives.

You guessed it, the Census.  But... did you know...

* Everyone is counted on Census night including international visitors - but excluding Diplomats.

 

* 150-200 dwellings are grouped together and called a CCD (Census Collection District)

 

* All data is aggregated to a CCD so it is impossible to identify individuals in any one area (for privacy).

 

* CCDs and the information they contain support the planning, administration, policy development and evaluation activities of governments and other users.

Demographers and analysis tools such as Tactician Online use CCD's for a number of Geo-Demograhic purposes.  These include:

* Market Research

* Trade Area Analysis

* Target Marketing

* Building Franchise/Sales Territories

* Territory Management

* Site Selection

To find out more about Geo-Demographics and accessing the Census information, please contact Tony Maber on email or +61 2 8436-2845.

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