Tokyo, Japan - SuperMap, the Asian leader and provider of GIS platform software, congratulates the Japanese Company Toshiba on winning the National Postal Service Project of Japan with the technology from SuperMap GIS. It is a success of joint efforts of Toshiba and SuperMap.
The objective of the national postal service project is to deliver a GIS/Location Based supporting system for the effective management of massive nation-wide postal distribution and delivery. It is a key component of the IT infrastructure of Japan eGovernment on the postal management.
The main system will be developed with SuperMap Objects, and it will be brought into service nation wide in spring 2009 with over ten thousand sets of terminals deployed. The system will at the same time adopt handheld device for mail carriers with eSuperMap.
Since its first entry into Japanese market, SuperMap GIS has been widely used in Japan`s railway, transportation, communication, emergency management, public securities, eGovernment, environment, as well as some new application areas such as banking, real estate and business analysis etc. The success of the joint bid by SuperMap and Toshiba for the postal service will be another major application for a large national GIS project in Japan, and SuperMap is again proven to be able to provide its technologies and experiences to the international market.
News Backgrounds:
Japan Post (http://www.japanpost.jp ), the owner of this project, is a public corporation in Japan offering postal and package delivery services, banking services, and life insurance. It has over 400,000 employees and runs 24,700 post offices throughout Japan with annual revenue of 23,061 billion Yuen(2006).
Toshiba (http://www.toshiba.com ), the contractor of this project, a world leader in high technology, is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances.
SuperMap Japan (http://www.supermap.jp ), the key GIS technology vendor for the project, one of five top GIS vendors in Japan, was founded in 2000 with the aim of introducing SuperMap GIS software to Japan. It has been involved in a number of large GIS projects to facilitate Japanese top companies and institutes in their GIS construction.
SuperMap Objects, a comprehensive component GIS development platform for various kinds of applications, it offers a complete set of GIS functions by using ActiveX control decreasing the difficulty of GIS application system developing while increasing the efficiency. Please refer to http://www.supermap.com/en/html/Products3.html for further information.
eSuperMap, an embedded GIS development platform in SuperMap GIS family which addresses the needs of map browsing, query, analysis, editing, etc on the move. eSuperMap supports popular mobile devices such as in-car computers, PDAs, smart phones, etc. Please refer to http://www.supermap.com/en/html/products514.html for further information.
