HI-TECH named
Microsoft MapPoint Solution Provider

HI-TECH has announced that it has been
accepted into the Microsoft MapPoint Solution Provider program. MapPoint
technology is the technology used on many popular web sites (MSN MapPoint,
Expedia) and applications such as Streets and Trips and Pocket Streets.
 
Microsoft MapPoint® version 2002
combines powerful mapping and analysis tools with the familiarity of
Office to help you make better business decisions. 
HI-TECH now offers its Data
Mapping module for RentPlus. This provides a link between your RentPlus
data and Microsoft MapPoint, allowing you to better visualize information
about your customers and your market. See a sample below.
Possibilities include "Pushpin" maps
showing your customers' addresses, density maps showing your penetration
into various zip codes or area codes, displaying demographic data such as
population or household income, and much more - even drive-time data.
MapPoint data is available for all of North America and Europe.
RentPlus Data Mapping
consists of two elements:
- Inside
RentPlus, you can choose the MapPoint Export option to export your data
into Excel spreadsheets in a format that is easily linked into MapPoint.
This option is ideal for collecting information for multiple sites to be
mapped.
- Inside MapPoint, select the RentPlus
Data Mapping Wizard from the Tools menu to link directly to your
RentPlus data or to link to the Excel spreadsheets created from
RentPlus.
The sample map below combines several
features:
- A red pushpin is displayed for the
address of each customer in the database
- The shades of green represent the
density of customers within each zip code (when using the program,
moving the mouse over a zip code tells you how many customers you have
in that zip code.
- The distance from the site is shown as
circles in 1,2,5, and 10 mile circles

Pushpins
 |
My Self Storage |
|
|
Count of
Customer by ZIP Code
 |
100 |
| 10 |
| 1 |
|
|