MapInfo Professional is a powerful Microsoft® Windows®-based mapping and geographic analysis application from the experts in location intelligence. Designed to easily visualize the relationships between data and geography, MapInfo Professional helps business analysts, planners, GIS professionals – even non-GIS users – gain new insights into their markets, share information-rich maps and graphs and improve strategic decision-making.

• Discover trends hidden in spreadsheets and charts
• Gain new understanding of your customers and markets
• Perform powerful data analysis and calculations
• Create custom maps and content for analysis

The MapBasic® development environment is a complete, BASIC-like programming language used to create custom applications for use with MapInfo Professional® or special MapInfo runtimes. MapBasic allows you to customize the geographic functionality of MapInfo Professional, automate repetitive operations, and integrate MapInfo Professional with other applications – quickly and easily.

• Build custom applications and modify the MapInfo Professional interface
• Control MapInfo Professional through OLE Automation
• Add 'a little mapping' to your applications with MapInfo Professional windows
• Create and edit programs with MapBasic Text Editor
• Use MapBasic Compiler to create an executable from a program
• Link separate program modules for large or complex applications
• Reference On-line Help for the MapBasic language
• Includes over 300 statements and functions

MapXtreme® is the leading software development kit (SDK) for integrating location intelligence with existing business systems. It allows developers to build custom mapping applications, provide tailored views of geographic data and automate and augment business processes. MapXtreme’s powerful spatial capabilities are geared toward solving real business problems, with a powerful, user-friendly feature set. Flexible deployment options include both desktop and web from a single SDK.

• Customers can see coverage areas or find nearest locations
• Engineers can spot network disruptions and notify customers
• Sales and service reps can get directions to their next call

Working seamlessly within MapInfo Professional®, Vertical Mapper™ helps you display, manage, and interpret grid-based continuous spatial information. If you want answers from location-based data, Vertical Mapper will find them, creating grids, or continuous surfaces of information, from point data by estimating values between known points. Vertical Mapper helps turn your data investment into compelling, meaningful information to give your business the upper hand.

• Features a wide range of analysis tools to reveal trends in data
• Unique prediction capabilities identify areas with similar attributes
• Modeling tools build grids from existing point files or unmapped tables
• Now includes six gridding algorithms
• Bring data to life with color settings and dynamic 3D rendering
• Available in English and Japanese languages

MapServer is an Open Source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications. MapServer is not a full-featured GIS system, nor does it aspire to be. Instead, MapServer excels at rendering spatial data (maps, images, and vector data) for the web.

• Advanced cartographic output
• Support for popular scripting and development environments PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and C#
• Cross-platform support
• A multitude of raster and vector data formats
• Map projection support