Global Market Leader in GIS

Geoplan mapping data is packaged with market leading GIS software and available as a standalone product via our client’s sales channels.

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The Problem

Our client is  the global market leader in GIS, helping customers get results since 1969.

Founded to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. They do so by supporting their users’ important work with a commitment to science, sustainability, community, education, research, and positive change.

Today, our client’s software is deployed in more than 350,000 organisations, including the world’s largest cities and most national governments.

Highly detailed and accurate Postcode polygon data frameworks are fundamental to this type of analysis and modelling.

This is where Geoplan excels, as the de facto industry standard, for the supply and maintenance of these data frameworks in the UK.

The Solution

Geoplan are the owners of the industry standard digital Postcode boundary data file for the UK. We were the first company to develop full digital UK coverage of Postcode Boundaries and have consistently maintained this Postal geography for over 39 years.

We have supplied this critical data set to both Royal Mail, in support of daily postal operations and to Ordnance Survey, as a key service and component provider, in building both Addressbase and latterly Codepoint Unit Polygons.

It is these skills and capabilities that are relied upon, as part of the key fabric of our client’s industry leading product suite, dating back over 30 years.

Developed specifically for Hermes, the system provided:

The Benefits

  • The ability to offer reliable, high quality mission critical data frameworks and models, through a range of delivery channels, for the insurance industry.
  • The ability to create combined and derived products with confidence, under our comprehensive Value-Added Reseller Contract framework.
  • Low friction, low-cost contract administration, to enable profitable and painless customer acquisition.
  • Increased revenues and innovation opportunities.
  • Consistent and reliable data supply, giving our client the time and freedom to focus on adding value to their customer base.

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