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Learn how companies all over the globe are utilising location data to enhance business operations and improve profitability. Keep up with industry updates, best practices, and key learnings from location intelligence projects we have executed.

Improve supply chain and delivery logistics with location data

Businesses across a host of industries (such as retail and FMCG) strive to improve supply chain efficiency to cut costs, meet customer demand, and increase profits. This article explores how geospatial data (mobile location and Point-of-Interest data) is a valuable tool for enabling these objectives and can be leveraged to support profitable decision-making in supply chain and delivery logistics. 



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Leveraging Location Data for Enhanced Retail Strategies and Increased Profitability

Mobile location data is a valuable resource for retailers, as it provides insights into the movement patterns of consumers in the physical world. By analyzing this data, retailers can gain a deeper understanding of human mobility and use it to improve their marketing campaigns, gain a competitive edge, and identify and address operational inefficiencies. In this article, we explore several ways in which retailers can use location data to enhance strategic decision-making, reduce costs, and boost profitability. 

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Using geospatial data to advance sustainability in government and business

Big data is a powerful tool for tackling climate change – humanity’s greatest challenge in the 21st century. Geospatial data is a form of Big Data that is drastically improving mitigation/adaptation strategies for climate change and increasing the likelihood that we collectively accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals. By giving businesses and governments a firm understanding of evolving mobility patterns and spatial relationships, geospatial intelligence can decrease resource consumption, lower pollution and carbon emissions, enhance our resilience to climate-induced natural disasters, and more.  

Researchers, businesses, and government agencies leverage mobile location and Point-of-Interest (POI) data to advance sustainability. Let's look at some of these use cases. 

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Aqfer Announces New Partnership With Quadrant

Aqfer, a leading provider of big data marketing solutions, has announced a new partnership with Quadrant, a global leader in raw mobile location data, point-of-interest (POI) data, and corresponding compliance services.

The partnership provides Aqfer clients and their customers access to Quadrant’s raw location data feed, where they can access all of Quadrant’s anonymized and privacy-compliant movement data. Quadrant also offers manually verified and customized POI datasets on demand, along with an off-the-shelf POI data feed. This wealth of data will help Aqfer’s clients and their customers augment their existing first-party identity graphs with additional audience identifiers, allowing them to perform hyper-targeted, location-based marketing and advertising initiatives.

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How to leverage geospatial data to boost profitability for travel-based businesses

Geospatial data and technology offers great opportunities for the development of modern tourism applications and businesses. Accurate Point-of-Interest (POI) data is crucial for effective trip planning, online bookings, and location-based services such as digital maps and navigation systems. On the other hand, analysis of mobile location data can offer comprehensive insights into travellers' movement and behavior, allowing businesses to derive actionable business intelligence and improve their offerings.

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