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MapInfo Pro

Score6.4 out of 10

14 Reviews and Ratings

What is MapInfo Pro?

MapInfo Pro is a desktop mapping solution developed for GIS analysts, urban planners, environmental scientists, real estate professionals, and transportation and logistics companies. According to the vendor, this software empowers users to visualize, analyze, edit, interpret, and output data, enabling them to uncover valuable insights and trends in geographic information. It is positioned as a versatile tool suitable for organizations of all sizes.

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Product Demos

Who Buys & Uses MapInfo Pro

MapInfo Pro - Tool that is helping us in making better business decision

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This tool has been really helpful to us in supply chain and sales analysis across different business domains. We can monitor the sales on region level and hence find the right market for growth . Overall our operational efficiency has been improved to large extent reduced manual map efforts and we got visibility that is location based for our business.

Pros

  • Decision making has been improved because we have visibility on our sales and distribution data geographically.
  • Delivery time and route efficiency has been improved that played a crucial role in optimizing supply chain.
  • Tool played great role in helping us in market analysis hence improved our sales.

Cons

  • UI is old and boring for new users. Takes time to get into comfortable zone.
  • In case of large datasets handling for multiple regions performance was quite slow
  • integration with other platforms needs improvement.

Return on Investment

  • Improved decision making through location intelligence.
  • Sales have been improved .
  • on the other side ROI has been impacted due to licensing cost and training stuff and performance not good while handling large dataset.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Cloud

MapInfo is a professional and easy to use mapping software

Pros

  • Digitize spatial data
  • Convert data from other formats to spatial layers

Cons

  • The 3D capability in Datamine is a little outdated and hard to use
  • The labelling can sometimes be a little hit and miss

Return on Investment

  • Maps are generated more quickly
  • Spatial data can be created quickly and easily
  • Can be expensive to licence

Alternatives Considered

QGIS

Other Software Used

QGIS, FileZilla, Adobe Photoshop

Excellent and easy to use.

Pros

  • Gridding
  • Format conversions
  • Import of data is easy

Cons

  • Number of files for each workspace is numerous
  • Interface could be more user-friendly
  • Number of bugs, though few

Return on Investment

  • Tracking of drilling programmes
  • Gridding of data in the field
  • Saves time on hand drawing maps

Alternatives Considered

ArcGIS