The Virtual Earth platform - now Bing Maps for Enterprise - is a critical component of the Microsoft geospatial story, enabling public sector agencies to serve up data in a manner that allows users to better visualize, understand, and ultimately to act on them in a more timely fashion, while simultaneously cutting costs and delivering clear value to their constituencies.

Visual Fusion from IDV Solutions combines with Bing Maps, SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies to create a visual mashup platform, empowering organizations to unite data from otherwise incompatible sources - enterprise data stores, Web feeds, spreadsheets and more - into rapidly-built, interactive and collaborative applications that provide a single view of the data.

Join the Microsoft Bing Maps team, IDV Solutions and Directions Media for a complimentary webinar that discusses how the Bing Maps and Visual Fusion technologies can help you plan, predict and respond quickly, plus efficiently manage and analyze the overwhelming amount of data that flow through your agencies and departments on a daily basis.

Featuring:
Louis Effa, Director of Information Technology for the Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, will present a case study demonstrating how these technologies from Microsoft and IDV Solutions are helping the Maritime Administration to fuse data together to create models and simulations for capacity planning, economic impact analysis, on-demand forecasting and plans for mitigating and reacting to emergency situations.

This webinar will highlight how:

· Bing Maps brings clarity to business intelligence data and augments situational awareness.

· Bing Maps integrates with other Microsoft technologies to provide the visualization for collaborative, geospatial data applications.

· Visual Fusion empowers everyone in an organization to create interactive, geospatial mashups from unlimited sources of data.

· Visual Fusion provides a streamlined platform for building killer apps that drive agility, collaboration and insight.

"Putting dots on a map and simple mashups are no longer enough. Businesses and organizations need true location intelligence... a comprehensive, integrated solution that presents an interactive picture to give decisions-makers a 360 degree view of their operations. IDV Solutions and Microsoft have a solution geospatial professionals, and those looking to utilize geospatial, need to see."

Joe Francica
Vice Publisher and Editor in Chief, Directions Media

Who Should Attend
Business and IT leaders in the public sector interested in capturing the value of location-based information and applications.

When:

Tuesday,
June 30, 2009
2 - 3 pm EDT
1 - 2 pm CDT
Noon - 1 pm MDT
11 am - Noon PDT

Hosted By:

Directions Media

Moderated By:

Mike Agron
Executive Advisor
Directions Media

Case Study:

Louis Effa
Director of Information Technology
Maritime Administration - U.S. DOT