SatGuide on laptops & desktops for Corporate

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SatNav Technologies , a Hyderabad headquartered IT Products Company and pioneer of GPS Technology in India, now adds laptop and desktop navigation to it's widest range of GPS products. SatNav's GPS products are sold under the brand SatGuide .

 

SatNav announces the launch of it's SatGuide turn-by-turn navigation and planning solution for laptops and desktops, focused on Corporate. SatGuide, which prides itself in offering the widest range of GPS products to its customers, is now adding to its offerings this solution which is positioned as an efficiency enhancement and planning tool. This is again, like most of it's other products, the first time in the country that such a solution is being launched.

 

The application includes turn-by-turn navigation and routing software bundled with ONE INDIA map of SatGuide that covers all major cities of India along with a detailed National / State Highway network - all included in a single map as well as several thousand points of interest thus offering a huge value add for a small amount of money! Sitting in one's office it is now possible to feed in a start point, end point and get the complete details of distance, time to travel etc. When prior information is available regarding traffic congestion it is also possible to block those routes and get the most optimum route as an output.

 

Laptop users who are worried about having to carry an additional device when visiting new cities in India or need to plan their route within their own city before leaving office, can load SatGuide on laptop or desktop and navigate with ease! Instead of having to search for addresses after reaching the vicinity of the destination, the user can now seek details, mark out the destination on his desktop and then go directly for the meeting. The application will be useful for logistics, distribution companies and fleet managers as well.

 

The company has been doing beta testing of the solution prior to launch, with over 200 high profile individuals across India and the response has been very encouraging. On an average each individual will be able to save atleast an hour each time an out of office travel is planned, leading to an efficiency improvement of over 15% in a single day. Companies can recover the money spent on this in less than a week by prioritizing their activities and planning well in advance.

 

With the availability of SatGuide for laptops, you can now conveniently covert your laptop into a Navigation device when needed, you can find your location in real time or choose a start point and steer your way to your destination by attaching an external SatGuide Bluetooth GPS receiver.

 

SatNav Technologies has also been pioneer in map development in India. They have now been able to bring 85% precision to their maps of India and its major cities. And, as a continued commitment to provide the best maps to its customers, the company offers updated maps every quarter, these are offered free once to every existing customers. After the maps have been surveyed over and over again and have been tried and tested by several thousand users, version number 6 has been launched in February 2008 in 30+ cities.

 

For the software component, SatNav Technologies has partnered with Destinator Technologies, which is a global company that provides innovative and flexible navigation software. Through consistent innovation and with one of world's largest research and development teams in the industry, Destinator creates the most compelling navigation experiences for the end user.

 

The SatGuide Laptop software for your laptop can be purchased directly from the website at www.satguide.in or by calling the call center but is currently available only for sales of 100 or more licenses. Pricing is very aggressive and user friendly at just 1999 Rs plus tax per license for the Pan-India solution. Talks are on with leading laptop and desktop manufacturers, partnerships are expected to be announced soon. Over the coming weeks it will be opened up for retail sales and the product will be available through all the 1000+ channels where the company's other devices, PNDs, PDAs, Phones and Navigation Software are currently available. 

 

Sourced From: Perfect Relations Limited

  

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