Build Customer Relationships and Track Plant ProductivityMeet the challenges of today's global economy by strengthening connections to your customers, your plants, and your opportunities for growth with Microsoft Virtual Earth. Manufacturing companies can use Virtual Earth to manage tighter budgets and fewer resources, and to track assets efficiently.
InSinkErator
Real-time business decisions were a costly challenge for InSinkErator. Investments in its business intelligence infrastructure weren’t delivering results. The company now uses a virtual dashboard, developed by a Microsoft partner, for its 130 international locations—meaning that insightful business decisions can be made in hours instead of weeks.
Sungevity
Sungevity enables prospective solar-energy-system customers to type in their address, identify their rooftop from an aerial photo, and get a free online quote, usually within 24 hours. In less than six months, the company provided nearly 2,000 Internet-based quotes.
Toyota
Customers can find the Toyota dealer closest to them, and get detailed driving directions, with the Virtual Earth application. Toyota's solution also shows what services each branch offers, including lube and tire services, used-car offerings, and other critical data to help car owners and buyers.
Sealy
Sealy uses Virtual Earth to show customers which retailers, by zip code or city, sell the mattress type they want – before they head to the store. The map lets users hover over a pushpin to find a location and address, and the search results give the names of the stores, distance from user's zip code, and more.
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What Manufacturing Companies Can Do with Virtual Earth
Strengthen Customer Connections
- Customize maps with unique pushpins information boxes, featuring brand elements.
- Provide customers and partners with locations of stores, outlets, and manufacturing sites.
Improve Business Insight
- Layer third-party data, like consumer demand and population growth by region, to instantly visualize areas of opportunity.
- Track performance by region by layering your productivity data over plant location maps.
Manage Mobile Assets
- Track mobile assets like delivery fleets to manage deliveries and other supply chain needs.
- Monitor individual assets like trucks with applications that layer GPS device information.
