Pitney Bowes Business Insight Reaches Parcel Data Milestone
Parcel Coverage Surpasses 100 Million, Providing Organizations with Greater Insight When Making Critical Decisions
- Carol Wallace or Amanda Munroe
- Phone: 203-351-6974 or 617-779-1816
- eMail: PBBI@shiftcomm.com
Troy, New York, — September 30, 2009
Pitney Bowes Software, the leading global provider of location and communication intelligence solutions, announced today that its parcel coverage has surpassed the 100 million mark, covering more than 1,400 counties and 243 million people across the United States. Parcel boundaries and centroids provide the most detailed and accurate property location and identification available to organizations in a wide range of industries. Organizations that require precision geocoding and accurate property identification now have access to detailed information in more areas of the country. A variety of industries including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and government, rely on parcel data to research and analyze property characteristics such as environmental factors, demographics, and tax jurisdictions.
Parcels have defined boundaries encompassing an area of land; the centroid identifies the physical location of each parcel. Precise location and the ability to analyze the characteristics of a property are key components when examining factors such as flood zones, impact areas, easements, rights-of-way, and land use. Pitney Bowes Software parcel data encompasses a wealth of information, including address, Assessor Parcel Number, elevation, and land use. Integrating parcel data into daily operations enables organizations to achieve greater insight into the impact of location-based variables, helping improve asset management and increase operational efficiencies.
“We’re committed to the continued expansion of our parcel data coverage, to increase our precision geocoding capabilities and empower our customers with more detailed location intelligence analysis” said Bryan Sears, managing director of Data Development, Pitney Bowes Software. “By surpassing the 100 million parcel mark, we are enabling organizations to precisely locate more properties across the country and gain a greater insight into each specific location, whether they’re looking to provide mortgage services, issue an insurance policy, or determine taxes.”
Pitney Bowes Software’s parcel data is digitized and gathered from multiple government and third-party sources. Parcel boundaries and centroid geocoding data is integrated with several products, including GeoStan®, MapMarker®, Spatial+ ®, and Centrus ® Web Mapping Services, and can be visualized through applications including MapInfo Professiona® and Microsoft Virtual Earth®. For more information about Pitney Bowes Software’s parcel data solutions, please visit http://www.pbinsight.com/products/data/parcel-data/.
About Pitney Bowes Business Insight
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a division of Pitney Bowes Software Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc., helps organizations to acquire, serve and grow customer relationships. Our leading-edge solutions in the areas of Customer Intelligence, Customer Communications and Customer Care enhance our customers’ operational systems and workflows, enabling them to manage their customer relationships more effectively. We offer unique and compelling capabilities, including location intelligence; GIS; predictive analytics; data quality, management and integration; and customer communications management. In combination, our solutions and capabilities deliver customer insights that create competitive advantages. Leading companies, government agencies and systems integrators rely on our global expertise and decades of leadership to improve their operational effectiveness and business results. Visit www.pbinsight.com and www.pb.com for more information.