Directions and Routing multiple way-points feature of Maplytics

This blog illustrates the Get Direction and Get Route feature of Maplytics. This is important feature to calculate the route(Direction) of selected address.

Direction: Selecting this option from a particular plotted pushpin, you will get you the driving directions to the selected address from the starting point provided in the Current Location text box.

 
Once clicked on Direction you will see the direction between two address along including visual representation.

The table at the top lists the addresses that you have included when determining the directions from the first address in the list to the last one in the list. You can use the Up/Down buttons to change the waypoints in the directions.

Del button can be used to remove an address from the way point list.

Get Direction button will get the directions as well as update route on the map for the waypoints indicated in the table.

Using the Print button you can print the Directions as well as the adjoining Map.

Add to Route: This option can be selected when you would like to define the waypoints for your route to get the directions for. If you would like to meet multiple customers on the way, you could add each of these records as Waypoints to the table.

The Get Route button would then get the directions that join all the waypoints selected.

For further details on Maplytics you can visit our website http://www.inogic.com/addons_maplytics.htm or you can contact us on crm@inogic.com for more information or trial requests.

Detail Map feature of Maplytics

This blog will demonstrate a very useful feature of our product Maplytics, called “Detail Map”. Through Detail Map you will be able to plot any entity records on the map, search for records within a proximity range from current location, categorize based on attributes for the entity, search for nearby locations, and much more.


Maplytics is a plug and play application made available as Managed solution that can be easily installed and uninstalled without affecting other CRM components. Maplytics is a Geo-Analytics tool designed for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011(Online/On-Premise/IFD/Office 365) using the API services provided by Bing maps.

In Detail map, system defined views and user defined views are available for the selected entity type in the Views picklist. The user can choose one of the views, to plot all the records available in that view on the map.

Next feature of Detail map is to search for records within a given proximity value, which can be in Kilometers or Miles as per the user need. This feature allows you to know your customers within a specified range from the current location. This feature truly amplifies the power of Bing maps and is a very useful feature for on-field agents, to get the details of customers in their vicinity on a simple click of a button.

The Next feature allows you to categorize the records based on attributes of the selected entity, the colored pushpins and the legend helps to distinguish as well as categorize the records. Below screen displays the colored pushpins and legend information on the map. This feature helps user to understand his/her customer better and in a more presentable way.

Next but not the last, search nearby feature enhances your Maplytics experience by allowing you to search for airports, hotels, coffee shops , restaurants etc (almost anything) from nearby location. This will be plotted alongside the CRM data with tooltip showing the distance between.

Another feature of Detail map is that the user can save the records plotted as a personal view in the crm or they can export the records in a csv format. The user has the ability to manipulate the saved(csv) data outside of crm and also user can perform all operations that crm provides over the created personal view.

You can also have a road view of the place, which can be very helpful to get the knowhow of roadways around your customer. Below screenshot displays detail map for lead entity with road view.

These are just a list of few features that Detail map provides. Users can combine these features as per their need or requirement. Apart from this one feature Maplytics has many exciting features to offer and we can say that Maplytics truly extends the definition of CRM.

We can guarantee that this will surely help you to organize and understand your data more clearly and will help you to achieve a competitive edge in the market.

For further details on Maplytics you can visit our website http://www.inogic.com/addons_maplytics.htm or you can contact us on crm@inogic.com for more information or trial requests.