PLDT unit adopts Google Maps

MANILA, Philippines - IP Converge Data Services Inc. (IPC), a unit of dominant carrier Philippine Long Distance Telephone Inc. (PLDT), will provide corporate customers the benefits of Google Maps to better run their businesses.

IPC president Reynaldo Huergas said in a statement that the company is now offering Google Maps to Philippine enterprises as an important addition to its cloud services.

“We are now more equipped to leverage our being a Google Enterprise partner to enable more sectors of Philippine society achieve more success. Industries that will benefit from this technology include utilities, government, telecommunications, transportation, shipping and logistics, real estate, and retail,” Huergas stressed.

Google Maps enable employees to view, understand and make better decisions by visualizing their own set of imagery or data on a familiar map. This also provides businesses the tools for optimizing operations and creating engaging applications.

Google Maps for Business delivers the service and support enterprise organizations’ need when incorporating maps into customer facing websites or mission critical internal applications.

Google Maps for Business would enable users to make better decisions through unique insights gained from visualizing a company’s data on a Google Map, gain optimal productivity from its people and assets through location and dispatch tools, increase visitor traffic and drive user action by embedding maps in the firm’s sites and applications, and build location-aware web and mobile apps.

The pioneering cloud services provider is the newest Google Geo Reseller in the Philippines.

As such, IPC now resells and deploys Google Maps for Business to give Philippine enterprises superior geo-location tools and capabilities to better run their business.

And like the rest of IPC cloud services, with Google Maps for Business, enterprises can scale on demand.

Although the world’s most popular maps are also offered on the web for free, customers who need enhanced features such as advanced geocoding, added support, and full control over advertising will have to avail of the Google Maps for Business from a Google Geo reseller like IPC.

This partnership kicked off IPC’s ‘cloudvocacy’ to promote cloud computing as a means to lessen the burden of rising hardware and software costs on Philippine enterprises.

As IPC’s “software-as-a-service” offering, Google Apps has created tremendous time and cost savings for businesses as it requires zero capital expenditure on licenses and hardware and needs minimal administration.