MapInfo Strategic Partner of the Year Award
For the second year in a row, Tonkin Consulting has been awarded the MapInfo Australia/New Zealand Partner of the Year. The US-based MapInfo Corporation is the leading provider of Location Intelligence solutions. The Practice was first awarded MapInfo’s Australia/NZ Partner of the Year in 2005, just two years after signing up as a Strategic Partner.
Since July 2003, Tonkin has also qualified as the South Australian authorised MapInfo Training Centre and has been responsible for generating strong sales of MapInfo solutions through its consulting projects.
Jonathan Wright, Managing Director, MapInfo Asia Pacific, said: “We have many strong distributor partnerships across the Asia Pacific region that provide local sales and services support for MapInfo solutions. Tonkin Consulting is one partner that has demonstrated an enormous amount of support for MapInfo over its three-year relationship and we congratulate Tonkin Consulting on a rewarding partnership that we look forward to continuing.”
Our close relationship with MapInfo was critical in winning the award and driving sales in the local government sector, to the point where MapInfo has become the solution of choice for these clients.
Tonkin Consulting Managing Director, Ken Schalk, welcomed the award. “We rely on MapInfo solutions within our own Practice and naturally recommend these solutions to our clients,” he said. “The recognition from MapInfo as its leading Strategic Partner in Australia and New Zealand is an enormous accolade and one that we truly value. We look forward to continuing our close relationship and mutual success in the years to come.”
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Spatial Infrastructure Award
The Tonkin Spatial team recently received the 2006 Spatial Excellence Award, taking out the Infrastructure category. Each year, the awards recognise and acknowledge excellence in the growing spatial information industry in South Australia.
The team won the award for its application of SIS to water management projects. Our entry outlined two significant infrastructure projects undertaken by Tonkin Consulting in this field as an illustration of the way in which Spatial Information System software is widely utilised within the Practice. The first case study outlined the application of MapInfo Professional in conjunction with the hydraulic modelling package TUFLOW, to examine the impact of urban consolidation and redevelopment on runoff, and the need for councils to upgrade stormwater drainage networks. The second case study described how MapInfo Professional had been extensively utilised within the $600M Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Project. Both case studies demonstrated the innovative and widespread application of SIS within Tonkin Consulting in an engineering environment.
Tonkin Consulting is well known in SA for its water, environment and civil infrastructure projects. The Tonkin Spatial team has been developing expertise in spatial solutions for over 15 years, applying innovative solutions in support of these projects with great success. We are sure that receiving the 2006 Spatial Excellence Award will spur Tonkin Spatial on to greater achievements.
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Spatial Services Team Newsletter Number 1, 2007
We are pleased to bring you the first newsletter from the Tonkin Consulting Spatial team, with interesting news about our projects, together with new services and useful information for our regular clients.
Many of you will already be aware that Tonkin Consulting is well known in SA for its water, environment and civil infrastructure projects. Comprising around 100 professional engineers, scientists and technicians, Tonkin Consulting provides innovative, cost effective and sustainable solutions for water resources, environmental, infrastructure and state-of-the-art spatial projects.
The Tonkin Spatial team now offers a full range of spatial consulting services and provides specialist services directly to clients, as well as providing GIS support to all discipline areas within Tonkin Consulting.
We welcome your feedback about our newsletter and any ideas you may have for “spatial” topics we can cover in future.
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Ken Schalk
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Events
Spatial Information Day 2007
This year Spatial Information Day was held at the National Wine Centre, and again successfully provided an opportunity for individuals and organisations to experience current technologies, spatial information systems and spatial projects, via a number of interesting presentations and displays.
As a major sponsor, the Tonkin Spatial team was able to showcase the services we offer,
including new MapInfo and ER Mapper products and solutions.
Dave Gerner and Kym Barnett from our team presented an information session, Business Optimisation Utilising Spatial Technology: Taking the Guesswork out of Location. Our thanks
to the many people who visited our booth and introduced themselves and their organisation.
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SA Local Govt MapInfo User Group
In May this year, a number of technical staff members from SA local government councils and members of the Tonkin Spatial team held a very successful half-day SALGMUG meeting at The
City of Tea Tree Gully.
Again in August more than 20 people attended the meeting at the City of Marion, with an even representation from metro and regional councils.
The Regional Council of Goyder has kindly offered to host the next SALGMUG meeting at their Burra office in November. Leonie Fretwell from Goyder Regional Council and Malcolm Guy from
the Tonkin Spatial team will showcase Goyder’s new hosted Exponare solution.
These meetings enable council staff to come together and discuss ways of optimising specific spatial information products and solutions. The councils often share common challenges and the user group meetings help staff to keep their communities abreast of council information and services.
If you or your council wish to be included in these user groups, please contact Jody Atkins on
(08) 8273 3100 or by clicking on the following link: jody.atkins@tonkin.com.au
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MapInfo User Forums
During the year, two successful User Forums were held, convened jointly by Tonkin Consulting and Pitney Bowes MapInfo.
In May, an interested audience enjoyed an afternoon of information and advice about MapInfo products, together with presentations and case studies from successful users of these products. Tina James-Freeman, the Tonkin Spatial team’s senior trainer, also presented a Tips n Tricks session, about easier ways to work with specific MapInfo products.
A second forum was held in December with presentations and case studies from MapInfo users. Tina James-Freeman and Kym Barnett, Tonkin Spatial team’s senior trainers, also presented sessions.
The next MapInfo User Forum is planned for April/May 2008. If you would like to attend or request further details, please contact Jody Atkins.
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Pitney Bowes Completes Acquisition of MapInfo
Pitney Bowes Inc. has recently completed the acquisition of MapInfo Corporation. Magellan Acquisition Corp, a subsidiary of Pitney Bowes, merged with and into MapInfo, resulting in a name change to PB MapInfo Corporation.
Pitney Bowes provides the world’s most comprehensive suite of mail stream software, hardware, services and solutions to help companies manage their flow of mail, documents and packages to improve communication. More information about the company can be found at www.news.pb.com
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Projects & Initiatives
Our new website
For more than fifteen years Tonkin Consulting has been developing skills and pioneering the application of GIS within a range of disciplines in the engineering industry.
The Tonkin Spatial team now has a new website which provides information about products, services and solutions for the wider commercial, government, health, emergency services and land information areas.
One of the key services offered on the website is a secure client login section to help our clients who have purchased spatial support packages. This web-based service allows our clients to log support calls and provides a secure FTP facility for file upload and download to help with projects being undertaken.
Why not take a look at this service and the products and information found here: www.tonkinspatial.com.au
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New Locations Client Project
Looking to expand their network of banking outlets across South Australia, the Australian Central Credit Union began working with Tonkin Consulting this year, utilising a MapInfo solution to analyse their branch network and customer location. In gaining an understanding of the demographic and geographic nature of their customers, Australian Central Credit Union are now able to make informed decisions about the growth of their organisation.
"We were amazed by the decision-making power that the MapInfo solution tailored by Tonkin Consulting was able to provide. The Location Intelligence solution provided us with a far more quantitative and reliable assessment and allowed us to make some important and timely strategic decisions," says Michelle Aitken, Australian Central Credit Union’s Market Research Manager.
For more information about this project please contact Dave Gerner by clicking on the following link david.gerner@tonkin.com.au
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New Products
MapInfo has recently released several new products. For more details,
please follow the links for each product.
MapInfo AnySite Australia
AnySite is an essential decision support tool for leaders in retail, real estate, telecommunications, financial services and the public sector. It is designed specifically to provide analysts and marketers with insight into their locations and customers. AnySite is critical for analysing the relationship between site performance and market trade demographic characteristics. AnySite is based on an open architecture that enables you to integrate your business data directly into the product for analysis against the packaged demographic data. More…
MapInfo Exponare Version 3.0
Many of our clients, especially our local government clients, will be pleased
to hear that the new release of Exponare is currently scheduled for December 2007. More…
This new release has some interesting new features, is easy to use and will address some of the issues experienced in Version 2.5. Contact David McDonald to discuss your requirements in preparation for this release and to allow us to help you upgrade your existing solution.
MapInfo Professional Version 9.0
MapInfo Professional is a powerful Microsoft Windows-based mapping application that enables business analysts and GIS professionals to easily visualise the relationships between data and geography. With MapInfo Professional, you can perform sophisticated and detailed data analysis
by leveraging the power of location. Including ‘location’ in your decision-making and daily operations can help you increase revenue, lower costs, boost efficiency and improve services. More…
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Asset and Spatial Managed Services
Tonkin Consulting has been synonymous with Asset Management and Spatial Information Solutions for more than a decade in South Australia.
Recent State legislation requirements highlight the need for easily accessible and relevant information about current assets and infrastructure held by councils, as well as the need to report
in detail to the community and stakeholders.
In response to the needs of our clients, Tonkin Consulting now offers a web-based Managed Service that allows remote and secure access to your data, via an internet-connected PC or device.
We can provide access to an array of applications that will run seamlessly within your organisation, but are securely hosted and managed at Tonkin Consulting. Our Managed Service is maintained and managed by experienced engineers and qualified spatial technicians who are able to provide valuable and concise information for your reporting purposes.
For more information about Tonkin Consulting’s Asset and Spatial Managed Services, or to receive our information CD-Rom, please contact Malcolm Guy via the following link malcolm.guy@tonkin.com.au
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People
New Staff
This year, the Tonkin Spatial team has seen a significant increase in staff members – which has certainly increased all aspects of the service and knowledge we are able to provide to our clients. We would like to welcome and introduce the following new members to our team.
Malcolm Guy, Spatial Business Development Manager. Previously with KAZ Technology, Mal is helping provide high level IT support for our corporate solutions and managing the IT infrastructure of our new Managed Services offerings in spatial support solutions.
Hein Aucamp, Asset Manager. Hein has had extensive experience in Asset Management and has completed his MIEAust CP Eng and B Sc Eng (Civil). His support and vast knowledge is highly regarded within Tonkin Consulting and his support for our clients is comprehensive.
Matt Brown, Spatial Analyst. Matt joined Tonkin in a part-time role early this year whilst studying for his GIS Diploma. Having completed his diploma and switched to full time with us, he is currently working towards obtaining his Applied GIS Degree. Matt’s main focus is to support the project work of the various discipline teams within Tonkin Consulting.
Jody Atkins, Senior Administration Manager. Jody supervises the Tonkin Consulting administration team and provides key support to the Tonkin Spatial team. As well as overseeing the ordering and maintenance of the many software solutions used by the team and our clients, Jody is our event coordinator and ensures our clients receive the best level of service from our team.
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Training now available
Tonkin Spatial provides comprehensive training in MapInfo Professional and the full range of MapInfo products, technologies and applications. Courses are run in our accredited Training
Centre and class sizes are generally limited to a maximum of 8, which means you receive individual attention.
The MapInfo Level 1 and both Level 2 courses are $1200 (incl GST). The Exponare Administrator course is $1562 (incl GST).
For information about MapInfo Training, course outlines and training dates please click on the following link: Training
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