Tier 3, Inc. Enhances Its Service Offerings to Utilities, Pipeline and Telecom Organizations with NAVTEQ(R) Map Data
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Wednesday August 2, 3:24 pm ET
CHICAGO, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, has been selected as a map data supplier by Tier 3, Inc., a provider of data conflation and data management services to utilities, pipeline, telecom, and one call organizations. Previously, Tier 3 relied on multiple data sources to provide solutions for their customers. Now NAVTEQ® map data alone will provide Tier 3 with the key component for delivering up-to-date land bases or road networks allowing its customers to better manage their fixed and mobile assets.
Tier 3 specializes in all phases of the project and system development lifecycles for information and geospatial (GIS) technologies. A number of Tier 3's service offerings are focused in the areas of strategic consulting, program management, system architecture, application development, systems integration, GIS data conflation, GIS data management (migration / maintenance), and GIS implementation. Tier 3 is now positioned to integrate their customer's enterprise assets with the NAVTEQ database providing higher accuracy and more completeness than ever before.
Tier 3 offers a unique, proprietary data conflation solution called G-Conflate that provides its customers with a proven, cost effective mechanism to spatially re-locate existing GIS asset data to a more spatially accurate NAVTEQ road network without compromising data integrity. As a component of the G-Conflate technology, Tier 3 also offers a service called G-Maintenance, a software solution that combines the ability to perform long-term data maintenance and to properly manage, incorporate, and reconcile internal customer updates to the land base with new releases of NAVTEQ's map data. Consequently, this service eliminates currency issues between customer data maintenance activities and NAVTEQ product releases. Additionally, as part of the G-Maintenance service, Tier 3 and NAVTEQ have developed a "feedback loop" whereby Tier 3 manages and provides customer changes to NAVTEQ for incorporation into future releases of NAVTEQ's map database.
NAVTEQ provides comprehensive map data for the entire U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii with their NAVSTREETS® product. This data includes detailed attributes from street addresses, turn restrictions and relative road crossing heights to road segment access restrictions, one-way streets, all of which assist an organization to optimize the management of its assets. Additionally, NAVTEQ maps include Points of Interest including restaurants, hospitals, schools, shopping centers and leisure facilities, making it easier for utilities, pipeline, and telecom organizations to meet government mandated reporting.
"NAVTEQ's field-based data collection processes together with its adherence to rigorous quality metrics convinced us that including NAVTEQ data in Tier 3's service offerings was an increased value for our customer base. We are excited about collaborating with NAVTEQ to service our utilities, pipeline, telecom, and one call customers," commented J. Darrell Rhodes, President, Tier 3, Inc.
"The collaboration between NAVTEQ and Tier 3 is a natural fit due to Tier 3's depth of knowledge and expertise in implementing geospatial solutions for a variety of industries," commented Roy Kolstad, Vice President and General Manager - Business and Government Solutions, NAVTEQ. "As companies with large fixed and mobile assets continue to search for better ways to organize and manage these assets, the market demands an accurate and comprehensive land base and mapping infrastructure to support better decision making by these companies." |
