Successes

We have worked with many customers in the location-based services arena; following are the stories of some of them:

 

 

 

West Coast Sand and Gravel supplies landscaping and construction material to customers across California. Based in Los Angeles, the company prides itself on fast, efficient delivery with a fleet of 350 vehicles. So when dispatchers began to boycott their unreliable automated vehicle tracking solution, West Coast decision makers replaced it with a customized fleet management solution developed by OnTerra and based on Microsoft® MapPoint® 2006 Fleet Edition. Today dispatchers are working more productively with accurate location data that is displayed on their screens and updated every three minutes. West Coast is cutting fuel costs by reducing truck idling time and optimizing routes. The company is providing better customer service, and managers now own a wealth of location data to visualize business conditions, analyze company operations, and make better decisions.

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With the rising cost of gas, Malin wanted to observe their fleet in order to improve routing efficiency and optimize schedules for field service engineers. To accomplish this, the company decided to add global positioning system (GPS) tracking capabilities to its fleet of service vehicles. While evaluating automatic vehicle location (AVL) solutions, Malin was introduced to OnTerra Systems, offering integrated location solutions leveraging Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and MapPoint mapping software and GPS tracking devices. OnTerra’s FleetTracker 2.0 software pulls vehicle location information from a customer’s database and presents it through a graphical user interface (GUI) framing the Microsoft mapping software. This allows customers like Malin access to several different views of their tracking information, and integrates their own fleet visuals onto the general maps.

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One of the country's largest marketers of commercial real estate information was already using a GPS-enabled fleet tracking solution from an ASP-based provider, however the results were less than satisfying, the costs per vehicle/month were adding up, and the solution was not providing competitive advantages.  When they saw the promise of Virtual Earth and requested the recommendation of a Microsoft partner, Microsoft turned to OnTerra to help them prototype and then formalize a custom solution enabling them to move off of the ASP while meeting their very specific needs.

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