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Maplytics™ by Inogic is a leading Certified for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CfMD) geo-analytical mapping app. Maplytics allows users across verticals with the power of Geographical Data Visualization, Optimized Routing, Appointment Planning, Proximity Search, Heat Maps, and Territory Management to drive better sales, improve business manners and engage right customers at the right time. Maplytics is available for Microsoft Dynamics versions CRM 2013 & above and supports all deployment models of CRM On-Premise (IFD as well), CRM Online and Partner-hosted. It uses the API services provided by Bing maps. Some of its features include: •    Territory Management, Appointment planner •    Route Optimization & Sharing •    Finding records along the route •    Heat Map, Geo-Analytical dashboard representation •    Concentric Proximity Search •    Set default template

For more details kindly refer website, you can also visit Maplytics InfoCenter where you can find all Maplytics related information under one roof.  

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Guest Post: Maplytics uses Bing Maps for real-time Field Sales Rep tracking! - #microsoft #bing #bingmaps #maplytics #fieldsales #tracking #inogic #incaseyoumissedit #ICYMI | #RoadmapForSuccess

Guest Post: Maplytics uses Bing Maps for real-time Field Sales Rep tracking! – #microsoft #bing #bingmaps #maplytics #fieldsales #tracking #inogic #incaseyoumissedit #ICYMI | #RoadmapForSuccess

Analytics started with the goal of having a better customer engagement and has now grown to include business expansion programs based on locational factors. The integration of Bing Maps with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM / Power Apps has been making geo-analytics easier by bringing location intelligence to data like never before and helping to visualize data efficiently over various…

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Maplytics is a geo-analytical app Certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD) that seamlessly integrates Bing Maps with Microsoft Dynamics 365 to visualize Dynamics CRM/365 data on a map helping improve business processes and engage the right customers at the right time. Built by Inogic, a leading Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with a portfolio of productivity apps, Maplytics uses Bing Maps services to mine, plot, plan and analyze geographical insights from Dynamics 365 CRM and PowerApps data, powering features from proximity search and route planning to complex territory management and alignment.

Maplytics with Truck Routing

Our April release includes a new feature using the Bing Maps Truck Routing API, which defines routes for trucks by taking into consideration attributes such as size, weight and type of cargo.

Route planning in most apps usually takes into consideration routes available for cars and other vehicles with 4 wheels or fewer. Trucks, on the other hand, usually follow a distinct route because of their structure and the kind of materials they carry. With the recent demand for truck routing for planning routes in organizations that deal with logistics and delivery of heavy or hazardous items transferred through trucks and similar vehicles, Inogic started looking for API solutions to power this capability as part of Maplytics. Incidentally, the Bing Maps Truck Routing API made it to the top of the list as our team analyzed and reviewed the API offerings to design the feature.

"Bing Maps services offer us a great platform to come up with distinct mapping features for our Dynamics 365 CRM audience and deliver them optimized services day in, day out. The various APIs offerings by Bing Maps, with Bing Maps Truck Routing API being one of them, enables our team to develop some of the most astounding features that significantly improve the productivity and efficiency of our customers. We have been able to keep an unwavering trail of clients thanks to the strikingly flexible development model offered by Bing Maps Services," said Roohi Shaikh, CEO of Inogic.

Let's quickly walkthrough a scenario where the truck routing feature comes in handy!

In this example, Contoso Ltd is a firm that transports hazardous materials regularly to its customers across the region. It is important that the delivery truck cover as many delivery points as possible on its route to optimize delivery schedules while reducing delivery costs.

The delivery manager can quickly pull up Maplytics on their D365 CRM/CE environment and fill in the details requested for the truck and quickly get optimized routes to be shared with the truck drivers.

  In the screenshot above, under "Current Location", the delivery manager enters the truck's starting point. To cover as many delivery points in a single route, they perform a quick radius search.

Next the delivery manager provides truck details by choosing the appropriate Asset to get an optimized route specifically for the truck. The asset stores information about the vehicle dimensions like the following:

Number of axles = 5

Dimension Unit = Feet

Weight Unit = lbs

Weight = 40000

Height = 8

Width = 8

Vehicle Length = 44

Hazardous Material = Flammable

This information is critical to generate a route that is appropriate to the vehicle size and kind of material being transported. The delivery manager hits "Search" to get all the locations plotted based on the search conditions provided above. The Travel distance, when enabled, will display the travel distance for the given vehicle.

  Next, they add the required visit locations to the route. With all the information now provided, they hit "Go" to get the optimized truck route for the specified vehicle properties.

  Bing Maps Truck Routing API

Now let's have a quick look behind the scenes to understand the truck routing API that helped us design the route with little effort. The Bing Maps Truck Routing API considers the following factors for calculating routes for trucks:

Vehicle's height, width, length and weight

Number of axles

Number of trailers

A Boolean value to indicate if the truck is a semi

Maximum gradient

Turn radius

Avoid tolls, highways, crosswinds and grounding risk

Transportation of hazardous materials (explosives, gas, flammable, combustible, flammable solid, organic, poison, radioactive, corrosive, poisonous inhalation and goods harmful to water) or Hazardous permits (if required along the route).

Note: Truck routing is currently available in 80 countries and growing. The list of countries can be found here. The synchronous GET request would be in the following format:

https://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Routes/Truck?wayPoint.1={wayPpoint1}&viaWaypoint.2={viaWaypoint2}&waypoint.3={waypoint3}&wayPoint.n={waypointN}&heading={heading}&optimize={optimize}&avoid={avoid}&distanceBeforeFirstTurn={distanceBeforeFirstTurn}&routeAttributes={routeAttributes}&dateTime={dateTime}&tolerances={tolerances}&distanceUnit={distanceUnit}&vehicleHeight={vehicleHeight}&vehicleWidth={vehicleWidth}&vehicleLength={vehicleLength}&vehicleWeight={vehicleWeight}&vehicleAxles={vehicleAxles}&vehicleTrailers={vehicleTrailers}&vehicleSemi={vehicleSemi}&vehicleMaxGradient={vehicleMaxGradient}&vehicleMinTurnRadius={vehicleMinTurnRadius}&vehicleAvoidCrossWind={vehicleAvoidCrossWind}&vehicleAvoidGroundingRisk={vehicleAvoidGroundingRisk}&vehicleHazardousMaterials={vehicleHazardousMaterials}&vehicleHazardousPermits={vehicleHazardousPermits}&key={BingMapsKey}

For an asynchronous request, you could send a POST request with the vehicle parameters as a JSON object in the body of the request. More information about the URL parameters can be found in the documentation. Also, the Direction Module of Bing Maps, now supports routemode of Truck to request and display Truck Routes.

What our clients say:

Truck Routing is a robust addition to the list of features Maplytics offers. We have been able to make commitments and deliver them consistently by following optimized routes for trucks.

Most solutions that we looked at that integrate with Dynamics 365 CRM only offer routing for cars, we were looking for an app that would help us draw up routes to be followed by our delivery agents carrying hazardous materials in a 12 axle truck. With this we are now able to keep working in a single application and get our routes sorted.

With quick delivery options by Truck Routing we have been able to deliver orders more readily and have experienced a huge boost in the ROI. Our customer feedback has also improved significantly and we are inching amongst the best in industry.

Apart from truck routing, Maplytics has been able to develop notable features using Bing Maps services like radius search, optimized routing with turn-by-turn navigation and search along the route, Geo-fencing with Check-In/ Check-out capabilities, Appointment Planning, defining and aligning Sales territories with Territory Management, performance analysis of complex data with Heat Maps, Census Data and shape file overlays amongst others.

To learn more about Maplytics, visit https://www.maplytics.com/ and for more info on Inogic visit https://www.inogic.com/.

To learn more about Truck Routing API, visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/truck-routing

– Maplytics Team

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Giving CISOs assurance in the cloud

This post is authored by Mark McIntyre, Chief Security Advisor, Enterprise Cybersecurity Group.

Recently, I hosted a Chief Information Security Officer roundtable in Washington, DC. Executives from several US government agencies and systems integrators attended to share cloud security concerns and challenges, such as balancing collaboration and productivity against data protection needs, cyber threat detection, and compliance. Toward the end of the day, one CISO reminded me he needed assurance. He asked, “How can we trust Microsoft to protect our data? And, how can I believe what you say?”

This post provides an opportunity to share important updates and assurances about practices and resources that Microsoft uses to protect data and user privacy in the Cloud. It also offers information on resources available to CISOs and others, that demonstrate our continuing investments in transparency.

Security at scale

Increasingly, government officials as well as industry analysts and executives are recognizing and evangelizing the security benefits of moving to hyper-scale cloud service providers.  Microsoft works at this scale, investing $15B in the public cloud.  The internet user maps below provide useful insight into why and where we are making these investments. Figure 1 represents internet usage in 2015. The size of the boxes reflect numbers of users.  The colors indicate the percentage of people with access to the internet.

Figure 1, source “Cyberspace 2025: Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s Terrain”

Now look at Figure 2, showing expected internet usage in 2025.  As you can see, global internet use and accompanying economic activity will continue to grow.

Figure 2

In addition to serving millions of people around the world, we are also moving Microsoft’s 100,000+ employees and our corporate infrastructure and data to the Cloud. We must therefore be confident that we can protect our resources as well as our users’.

How do we do it?  Microsoft invests over $1B per year in cybersecurity and data protection.  We start by ensuring that the software powering our data centers is designed, built and maintained as securely as possible. This video illustrates the world-class security Microsoft applies to data center protection.  We also continue to improve on years of development investments in the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), to ensure that security is addressed at the very beginning stages of any product or service.  In the Cloud, the Operational Security Assurance framework capitalizes on the SDL and on Microsoft’s deep insights into the cybersecurity threat landscape.

One way that Microsoft detects cybersecurity activity in our data centers is the Intelligent Security Graph. Microsoft has incredible breadth and depth of signal and information we analyze from 450B authentications per month across our cloud services, 400B emails scanned for spam and malware, over a billion enterprise and consumer devices updated monthly, and 18B+ Bing scans per month. This intelligence, enhanced by rich expertise of Microsoft’s world class talent of security researchers, analysts, hunters, and engineers, is built into our products and our platform – enabling customers, and Microsoft, to detect and respond to threats more quickly. (Figures 3 & 4).  Microsoft security teams use the graph to correlate large-scale critical security events, using innovative cloud-first machine learning and behavior and anomaly-based search queries, to surface actionable intelligence.  The graph enables teams to collaborate internally and apply preventive measures or mitigations in near real-time to counter cyber threats.  This supports protection for users around the world, and assures CISOs that Microsoft has the breadth and scale to monitor and protect users’ identities, devices, apps and data, and infrastructure.

Figure 3

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Access to data

Technology is critical for advancing security at hyper-scale, therefore Microsoft continues to evolve the ways in which administrators access corporate assets.  The role of network administrators is significant. In our cloud services, we employ Just Enough and Just Enough Administration access, under which admins are provided the bare minimum window of time and physical and logical access to carry out a validated task.  No admin may create or approve their own ticket, either. Further, Windows Server 2016 clients can implement these policies internally. Security and managing data centers at scale is an ever evolving process based on the needs of our customers, the changing threat landscape, regulatory environments and more.

Compliance

Microsoft works with auditors and regulators around the world to ensure that we operate data centers at the highest levels of security and operational excellence.  We maintain the largest compliance portfolio in the industry, for example against the ISO 22301 privacy standard. In addition, Microsoft maintains certifications such as CSA STAR Certification, HITRUST, FACT and CDSA which many of our cloud competitors do not.  For more about Microsoft certifications, visit the Microsoft Trust Center Compliance page.

Transparency

Being compliant with local, industry, and international standards establishes that Microsoft is trustworthy, but our goal is to be trusted.  Toward that end—and to ensure we address the needs of CISOs, Microsoft provides a wealth of information about cloud services, designed to provide direct and customer self-service opportunities to answer three key questions:

How is may data secured and protected?

How does Microsoft Cloud help me be compliant with my regulatory needs?

How does Microsoft manage privacy around my data?

The comments at our roundtable that prompted this blog show that our cloud security and compliance resources can be difficult to find, so while we double down on our efforts to raise awareness, bookmark this update and read below.  We operate the following portals, designed to facilitate self-service access to security and compliance information, FAQs and white papers, in convenient formats, and tailored to an organization’s geography, industry and subscription(s):

The Microsoft Trust Center, a centralized resource for enterprise customers to find answers about what Microsoft is doing to protect data, comply with regulatory requirements, and verify that we are doing what we say.

The Service Trust Portal (STP) is available for organizations under nondisclosure to current and potential Microsoft customers. It includes hundreds of important third-party audit reports, information on certifications, and internal security documents, for Azure, O365, Dynamics CRM Online, and Yammer. Examples include SOC and ISO audits reports.

The Service Assurance Portal, available to current O365 users, offers the same level of access but directly through the O365 subscription. This is a unique “transparency window” to provide customers with in-depth understanding in how we implement and test controls to manage confidentiality, integrity, availability, reliability, and privacy around customer data. Not only do we share the “what” about controls, but also the “how” about testing and implementation.

Government Security Program

Microsoft also participates in the Government Security Program as another key transparency initiative. Through the GSP, national governments (including regulators) may access deep architecture details about our products and services, up to and including source code. The GSP also provides participants with opportunities to visit Microsoft headquarters in Redmond to meet face to face with the teams that operate, monitor, and defend our company and products and services—including data centers—from cyber threats. They can also visit any of our Transparency Centers in Redmond, Brussels, Brasilia, and Singapore. Several dozen governments around the world use the GSP to obtain greater insight into how Microsoft builds, operates and defends its data centers, and by extension, how we protect users.

Microsoft stands ready to work with CISOs to raise awareness and ensure access to the resources discussed above. Visit the following sites to learn more. Microsoft has also created a dedicated team of cybersecurity professionals to help move you securely to the Cloud and protect your data. Learn more about the Enterprise Cybersecurity Group, or contact your local Microsoft representative.

Blogs: Microsoft Secure Blog and Microsoft On the Issues Learn more about the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Read the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Follow us on Twitter: @MSFTSecurity

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Maplytics is an integration tool between Bing Maps and Dynamics CRM. Dynamics CRM users can plot and visualize MS Dynamics 365 data on a Map and perform drill-down geographical analysis. Heat Maps, Radius Search, Proximity Search, Route Optimization and Territory Management etc. these are important features in Maplytics for better sales, improve business processes.

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Maplytics is an integration tool, which is integrated between Bing Maps and Dynamics CRM. Maplytics provides many features like Route Optimization, Radius Search, Appointment Planner and Territory Management.

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Maplytics is an integration tool between Bing Maps and Dynamics 365. With Maplytics we can visualize and analyze Dynamics CRM data on a Map. Maplytics gives various features like Territory Management, Heat Map, Route Optimization, Radius Search, Appointment Planner etc.

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Maplytics is an integration tool between Bing Maps and Dynamics CRM. Maplytics’s ability to plot out Dynamics 365 data points on a map and see how they relate to other sources is fantastic. Maplytics helps us identify the closest distributor quickly and easily on a map. Apart from plot data on a map, Maplytics offers powerful features like Appointment Planning, Radius Search, Territory Mapping, Route planning and more to take your MS Dynamics CRM visualization to an entirely new level.

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Maplytics is a Bing map integrated mapping tool which is provides mapping Dynamics CRM/365 data, appointment planning, route optimization, sales territory management, Geo-analytical dashboard, and many more map-related features.

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By integrating Dynamics CRM with Bing maps, Maplytics has been designed to deliver locational intelligence as well as geo-analytical planning, routing, localization, and mobility. With Maplytics, Sales Managers enables visualize Dynamic CRM data on a map and schedule an appointment, add tasks, find the optimized route and improve sales productivity by using these functions.

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Maplytics™ is a Geo-Analytics tool designed for Microsoft Dynamics versions CRM 2011 and above as well as supports all deployment models of CRM On-Premise, CRM Online and Partner-hosted, which is integrate with Bing maps.

Some of its salient features include:

 •  Proximity search across multiple entities with the ability to save the geographic search results as static views in Dynamics CRM for later use

•  Color coding of pushpins based on configurable categorizations

•  Routing using multiple waypoints with Route Optimization capabilities

• Heat Map representation of Customer and Sales data

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Maplytics™ is mapping solution or tool for a comprehensive and seamless Bing Maps Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365.

 Some of its features include:

 •      Visualize Dynamics CRM data on map

·      Plot related records on map

•      Schedule appointment in map

•     Share, find and optimize route

•     Geo-Analytical dashboard representation of Customer and Sales data

 For more details visit our website, you can also visit our Maplytics InfoCenter where you can find all Maplytics information.

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Sales Territory Mnagement Dynmics 365

Territory mapping impacts the performance of sales reps and thereby the overall growth of an organization. To ensure that your sales team is canvassing the right area, your business needs the right Territory Management tool. #1 Geo-Mapping App Maplytics is power-packed with features that simplify the process of assigning, managing and visualizing territories within Microsoft Dynamics 365 enabling users to improve territory effectiveness within Dynamics 365. Territory Management feature in Maplytics helps users to add geographical boundaries (be it shape or a region) for Dynamics 365 CRM Sales Territory on a Bing map. This feature of Maplytics allows managers to create territories in Dynamics 365 for Sales Reps. Territory management enables you to view shapes, regions or uploads shape/excel files that can be plotted on map to create territories. User can further align the territories in Dynamics 365 to get proper distribution. Managers can even auto create the territories and save territories as drafts to rework on them later.

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Maplytics is geospatial mapping app that seamlessly integrates Bing Maps with Microsoft Dynamics 365 to visualize Dynamics CRM/365 data on a map and improve business processes and engage right customers at the right time. It supports Dataverse/PowerApps for Citizen Developers to Map Dynamics CRM data. Maplytics uses Bing Maps services to mine, plot, plan and analyze geographical insights from Dynamics 365 CRM and PowerApps data, powering features from proximity search and route planning to complex territory management and alignment.

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Maps Dynamics 365 CRM

Maplytics is an integration tool between Bing Maps and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to provide geographical Dynamics 365 data visualization on a map. It empowers users across verticals with the power of Geographical Data Visualization, Optimized Routing, Appointment Planning, Proximity Search, Heat Maps, Real-time tracking, Territory Management and much more to drive better sales, improve business processes and engage right customers at the right time. Maplytics is available for Dynamics CRM 8.2 & above, Dataverse (Power Apps) as well as native Dynamics 365 App for Phones & Tablets. It supports On-Premise & Online Dynamics 365.

For more features kindly refer our website, you can also visit our Maplytics InfoCenter where you can find all Maplytics information under one roof.

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Maplytics is one of the leading Certified for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CfMD) geo-analytical map visualization tool which integrates with Bing Map that helps businesses visualize their CRM data on a map. Maplytics allow users to plot the data based on location, region, drawn shapes, territories and saved templates on map within Dynamics 365 CRM. Users can plot single or multiple entities and view combinations and further categorize the data based on the field attributes of the entity. The users can configure the field attributes categories and choose pushpin shape and color for each category. Users also have the option to perform Proximity/Radius Search based on Distance (single or multiple) and time to find nearby Dynamics CRM entity records in the defined radius.