THE GEOTOUCH SERVICE
What is geoTouch?
GeoTouch provides an engine that powers location based content by integrating it into an intelligent map interface. It features a highly scalable and customizable design to meet the needs of individual customers. GeoTouch offers a suite of content expansion options and value added services for the wired and wireless web. Using a breakthrough, patent-pending technology to delivery location based services, GeoTouch is changing the expectations of the business and consumer market.

How does geoTouch's service work?
GeoTouch integrates in-depth geographic information with comprehensive web-based content. The GeoTouch engine takes any location-based database and integrates it into a dynamic map-linking the cyberworld to the physical. Through enterprise or ASP licensing, we offer a customized solution for business customers. We customize the different services like driving directions, travel information, yellow page searches, etc. to create a unique solution that can be incorporated into a website, intranet, or wireless device.

What sort of location-based information can geoTouch provide?
GeoTouch has aggregated a variety of information about entertainment, recreation, events, traveling, shopping, businesses, services, local neighborhoods, and more from leading providers as a value-added service to our customers. GeoTouch customers are able to provide their own content and often combine geoTouch content to offer even broader content to their customers.

How much does GeoTouch cost?
GeoTouch is designed upon unique specifications by each customer. We license the GeoTouch engine and provide a totally turnkey solution for integrating, customizing, and maintaining it. Our customization services run from color changes, special tabs, content like weather, real time traffic, and more. Talk to a business development representative for more information.

THE MARKET
Who will use geoTouch?
Because of its range of features and functionality, geoTouch is valuable to a variety of customers. Partners come from public and private sectors including government (municipal, state, and federal), real estate development planning, telecommunications, salesforce automation, transportation, and logistics. GeoTouch is also forming relationships with business portals, consulting firms, and system integration and support companies. Any company that works with location information will find this useful for internal staff/agents as well as end-customers.

What benefit does geoTouch deliver?
GeoTouch has created a geographic search engine for finding deep-rich, comprehensive, current location-based information all in one place and on an easy-to-use interactive map, via the Web and wireless devices. The result is a faster, simpler way of finding relevant geographic information. GeoTouch provides a superior user experience with its convenient, efficient and intuitive way of searching for and finding deep and extensive information. Enhancing the customer experience results in increased loyalty, stickiness, productivity, and more!

GEOTOUCH'S TECHNOLOGY
What is the technology behind geoTouch?
The UI front-end to access the geoTouch service is proprietary, and we built the technology using Java, Java Servlets and JSP. Our ability to aggregate data from multiple vendors to build a database that enriches the user experience is at the very heart of geoTouch's technology and expertise. GeoTouch uses spatial indexing and other proprietary technology to speed up the service and enhance the user experience.

What is the core technological innovation on the geoTouch platform?
The highly, scalable location-based search engine with an intuitive user interface is the core of our technologic innovation. The location-based search engine is robust, scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available, and lends itself to search the data spatially, which is the way people normally interact with the real world. The ability to aggregate comprehensive data and rich content from multiple sources is the very foundation on which we built geoTouch.

How does the search technology differ from other existing platforms?
Over and above using the traditional technologies based on keywords and normal indexing, geoTouch uses spatial indexing with visual interface to maximize the efficiency of searches.

How is geoTouch able to scale for increased users?
GeoTouch is designed with scalability and performance as a primary goal. Additionally, the ability to scale fast was also a priority of the system's design. We can aggregate copious amounts of data with no impact on user performance. Currently, the site can easily accommodate more than six million hits per day, and is scaled based on number of users and amount of content.