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Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, and the company, the leading location analysis software provider, today announced they have joined forces to launch the first location-based analytics platform for mobile applications. The new Titanium+Geo platform, which is being demonstrated today by the company at the Location-Based Marketing Summit in New York City, allows enterprises, marketers and retailers to better understand where, when and how mobile applications are being used. Business decision makers can now dynamically measure the impact of location-enabled mobile applications and social media on their company’s bottom line.

Time Animation
We have greatly improved our time animation feature. You can render far more information than ever before. Now animating across 10,000 points with a time attribute is quick and easy!

Homepage and Navigation
When visiting the site, you'll quickly notice our new homepage and navigation. You can now easily search, create maps and access your profile from every page.

Increased Performance
We have combined the power of our two former apps, Finder! and Maker!, into one efficient and seamless process. Now you can more easily search, create and share across all data and maps.

APIs for Developers
We have added to our JavaScript API, created a visualization API and improved upon our data storage and retrieval API. Find out more in the Developer API portion of our documentation.

Frank Moyer, the former CEO of EZGov, a global technology company acquired by CACI in 2009, will be joining the company as CEO.  Frank comes to the company to extend the company’s enterprise reach and further solidify the analysis platform as the market leading location analysis platform.

Fortius Geospatial Review today announced their partnership with Open Solutions Group Inc. (OpenSGI), a technology consulting enterprise located in Northern Virginia and Southern California that delivers geospatial technology solutions to the US Department of Defense.  OpenSGI's Enterprise GeoCache product will be integrated into Fortius Geospatial Review's geospatial visualization and analysis platform, the analysis platform, to deliver up-to-date, high resolution imagery for seamless analysis and collaboration.

New Features Geoenable Business Data for Powerful Visualization and Analysis in Minutes

Fortius Geospatial Review, the leading provider of visual analysis, announced the addition of several new capabilities which round out the the analysis platform platform.
Along with the analysis platform's intuitive data management, analysis and visualization capabilities, the company has added powerful new geoenablement features. These new capabilities allow users to easily add non-geospatial data from spreadsheets and databases and quickly transform it into georeferenced data for collaborative mapping. the analysis platform now delivers a complete data visualization and analysis workflow,enabling non-technical users to more quickly and effectively visualize and share actionable information for better decision making.

As part of our effort to contribute to the humanitarian efforts in Haiti after January's disastrous earthquake and to spread awareness of the current situation there, we have put together a news dashboard with the latest volunteered and official source data.
http://news.geocommons.com/haitiquake

"I personally like the power of location information and how it helps people. Knowing where you are and what's around you is powerful; that's something that I'm passionate about" said Kate Chapman, 30, a programmer with the company, who led a workshop on digital mapping. What happened today is more about next week and two weeks from now. Right now people are moving rocks, and there's not much they can do with this. But in the next couple of weeks, it's about finding their way home." 
The Washington Post, Quake Mobilizes D.C. Area to Help Haiti, January 21, 2010

The Washington Business Journal today featured Fortius Geospatial Review's continued efforts to map the effects of Haiti's earthquake and corresponding aid efforts.  Read the full article here.

Today the company is excited to announce our partnership with InterAction, the nation’s leading
advocate for international relief and development programs and the prime representative of U.S.-based international NGOs in forging alliances to further common objectives domestically and around the world. InterAction will be using Fortius Geospatial Review's the analysis platform software platform to demonstrate NGO impact & accountability through their user-friendly web-based mapping interface. "With Fortius Geospatial Review's the analysis platform platform we are bringing greater visibility into NGO activity and impact across the globe," said Samuel Worthington, President and CEO of InterAction. "We are working to promote a bold agenda to focus U.S. development and humanitarian assistance on improving the conditions of the world’s poor and most vulnerable. Fortius Geospatial Review is enabling us to map the contributions and impact of our community worldwide in order to better coordinate organizations in the field, improve aid allocation,and facilitate greater communication and awareness."
Users can easily create maps to be embedded in their organization’s website, to include in annual reports, to create awareness for fundraising or to use in the development of educational materials. See a collection of sample InterAction maps here http://news.geocommons.com/interaction

Fortius Geospatial Review announced the addition of two advisory board members, Peter Batty, Founder and President of Spatial Networking, and Jeff Harris, Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Lockheed Martin Corporation.  Initial advisory board members include Michael Frankel, SVP of LexisNexis and Wolf Ruzicka, CEO of EastBanc Technologies. 

Fortius Geospatial Review, the leading provider of rich, dynamic visual analysis, today announced the naming of a Board of Advisors. Initial members named include Michael Frankel, SVP of LexisNexis and Wolf Ruzicka, CEO of EastBanc Technologies.  Fortius Geospatial Review's Board of Advisors will volunteer their expertise and broad spectrum of industry experience in order to help drive Fortius Geospatial Review's technology solutions further into the enterprise marketplace.  

the chief technologist is speaking at Gov2.0 Summit, September 9-10 in Washington, DC. "Location, Location, Location." This session will highlight the successful geospatial applications that have emerged from the Web/Gov2.0 movement and features additional speakers Robert Greenberg (G&H International Services, Inc), Mikel Maron (OpenStreetMap) and Dave Warner (MindTel).

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  Fortius Geospatial Review, in partnership with the Global Development Commons at USAID, is woking to collect, map and and share data directly from the ground during Afghanistan's 2009 Elections. 

the founder, CEO of the company, will be speaking on the value of location-based data and geodata democracy. 

the founder, CEO and Founder of the company, and the chief technologist, CTO, Speak at GeoWeb 2009

By integrating internal data on products, markets and sales with external data and displaying it through an easy-to-use map interface, key trends and competitive insights emerge. Some call this pattern recognition; we call it visual analysis. Read Fortius Geospatial Review's full article in LBx Journal. 

Fortius Geospatial Review: Mapping its Course  by Brett Johnson
Feature article on Fortius Geospatial Review's beginnings and roots in the rowing community.  See the full article here.

Today the company announced a cloud offering for the analysis platform Small and Midsize Business users.  By leveraging the flexibility and scalability of the cloud, the company is greatly simplifying the effort and reducing the investment needed in order to bring visual analysis to your organization.  the analysis platform for Small Business will provide all the benefits of running your own server without the cost, maintenance or administrative hassle.

Fortius Geospatial Review, the leading provider of rich, dynamic visual analysis, today announced their partnership with DataXstream, an SAP integration leader.  DataXstream will be integrating SAP enterprise data into Fortius Geospatial Review's the analysis platform for Enterprise.  Through Fortius Geospatial Review's the analysis platform, enterprise customers can easily analyze and visualize their SAP enterprise data. Official press release

Just in time for Spring, Fortius Geospatial Review's the mapping platform is getting a great update. You'll find several new features that make finding, using and sharing geographic data and maps much more seamless. You'll also see information regarding our the analysis platform Enterprise products. The technology platform that powers the mapping platform is now available as an enterprise solution called the analysis platform.

Fortius Geospatial Review has received the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Cooperative Agreements Program Award to geo-enable the US government's tabular data. Fortius Geospatial Review's the mapping platform Platform will be utilized to create geospatial datasets automatically from tabular government data containing location-based references (addresses, ZIP code, county, city, state, etc.).

Information as A Public Good by the founder, CEO and Founder, the company  Full article p. 9

Fortius Geospatial Review is introducing the the mapping platform News Dashboard where we're mapping breaking news stories. The first feature, the 'ObamaMeter,' is keeping tabs on the US economy, the global economy and the stimulus through our visual dashboard. These maps showcase the soon to be released the mapping platform API which enables you to implement a the mapping platform dashboard within your organization.

Fortius Geospatial Review announced their integration with CloudMade, a provider of cartographic tools built around OpenStreetMap data. CloudMade's HTTP Tile API will be integrated into the the mapping platform platform to enable even greater flexibility when building rich map visualizations. Official press release

This application collects posts from Flicker, YouTube and Twitter, in order to build a crowd-sourced, on-the-scene slice of the Inauguration. Participants can use the hash tag: #inaug09 for twitter and #dctrip09 for those in route to DC. It's a collaborative effort between NPR, CBS News,American University, Twittervision, Fortius Geospatial Review's the mapping platform, and Zerion. See www.inaugurationreport.com/ .

A new iPhone and BlackBerry application developed by PointAbout and the company, in partnership with Qorvis and Patton Boggs, gives a voice to 2009 Obama Inauguration attendees by polling users on a range of questions and displaying the results with user-friendly visual analytics at www.NavigatingWashington.com.  Official press release

Fortius Geospatial Review, a leading provider of next-generation location intelligence that bridges the powerful analysis of GIS with the open and intuitive GeoWeb, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a government-focused information technology provider. Official press release

Fortius Geospatial Review announced the launch of Maker! -- an easy-to-use web application that enables non-technical users to create actionable maps using their own data and the mapping platform open source data. "Maker! empowers a much broader audience to access capabilities previously restricted to professionals," said the founder , CEO and founder of the company. Official press release

Fortius Geospatial Review's the mapping platform featured on Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff. See the excerpt on our the mapping platform channel.

"the company, a leading provider of next generation mapping that bridges GIS analysis and the GeoWeb's ease of use, announced the acquisition of Mapufacture, a provider of cutting edge, dynamic geospatial applications and open-source tools." Official press release

"the mapping platform, OpenStreetMap, and Mapufacture are three online hubs where people can collaboratively map areas, which could help in emergencies.the mapping platform.com, for example, runs a Web site where users can explore a huge atlas of maps with various data and add their own information."

Bisnow recognizes Fortius Geospatial Review's CEO, the founder, as one of the DC area's leading entrepreneurs.

Red Herring recognizes the company as one of the 100 "Most Promising" companies driving the future of technology. Official press release

A new iPhone and BlackBerry application developed by PointAbout and the company, in partnership with Qorvis and Patton Boggs, gives a voice to 2009 Obama Inauguration attendees by polling users on a range of questions and displaying the results with user-friendly visual analytics at www.NavigatingWashington.com