Telogis partners with MapIT to offer Geospatial Technology to Fleet Management Companies

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Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:26pm EDT

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Telogis, Inc. - the leading global platform for enterprise Location Based
Services, collaborates with MapIT to offer new technology and map data for
enterprise-focused companies in the Sub-Saharan region. 

MapIT`s collaboration with Telogis will greatly benefit its existing clients.
Since collaborating with MapIT, Helberg Transport Management (HTM), a long time
client of MapIT, has successfully implemented the Telogis software. Customers
will be privy to unique solutions that include map data supplied by MapIT,
integrated with both a powerful geospatial platform and AVL solution, developed
for fleet management, logistics and planning, field service and mobile resource
management solutions. Telogis supports all of MapIT`s data, offering customers
the ability to route their fleet and location empower their mobile workers. 

"What differentiates our geospatial tools from traditional GIS and web mapping
software is the unique combination of a fast and scalable architecture and the
extreme flexibility and advanced enterprise features that customers increasingly
demand. This partnership opens new markets for Telogis and provides MapIT`s
existing customers with tools to improve operations," said Newth Morris,
President of Telogis` GeoBase group. 

Telogis offers MapIT`s clients the latest in mapping, routing and navigation
technologies, and white label tracking and route optimization as a hosted
service. Telogis` applications are easy to deploy and are supported by rich
API`s and support tools. Addressing the needs of customers wanting to develop
and deploy customized dispatching and navigation solutions, MapIT data is
available in Telogis` spatially optimized data format for use with Telogis`
geospatial mapping platform, GeoBase. 

"Telogis selected MapIT due to the high quality of map data we supply and that
it could be integrated with their solution effortlessly and easily, coupled with
the fact that MapIT supplies over 90% of the local fleet management industry,
one of Telogis` core markets," says MapIT Managing Director, Ray Wilkinson. 

About MapIT

MapIT is at the forefront of digital mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa powering the
next generation of location enabled technologies. MapIT`s data is used in
products and applications such as asset tracking, fleet management, business and
market intelligence and web services. Its partnership in Africa with Tele Atlas,
a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and
location based solutions, has enabled MapIT`s data to be incorporated into Tele
Atlas` international map offering, thus providing clients with map data of
international standards. 

About Telogis

Telogis was established in 2001 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California
and has offices in Europe, Latin America and a development centre in
Christchurch, New Zealand. Their mobile devices, software products and services
are used and distributed in over 60 countries worldwide. Telogis` product
portfolio consists of a comprehensive wireless fleet management solution for
fleets and a robust, proprietary mapping solution for fleet management companies
and other telematics OEMs, enterprise users and systems integrators. To learn
more about Telogis visit our website at www.telogis.com or call toll free at
866-TELOGIS (866-835-6447).

Telogis, Inc.
Tina Shilling, 949-389-5527
tina.shilling@telogis.com

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