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ViaMichelin Web Package V2 - NEW VERSION !
Full of new innovations: more ergonomic and attractive content


With Web Package V2, ViaMichelin provides your on-line prospects, customers and partners with simple, efficient and user-friendly location-based and travel assistance services. Simply choose the functionality, geographical coverage and content to meet your needs and allow ViaMichelin to do the rest.

Combining our Web Package modules allows you to quickly develop a personalised web and mobile solution with no infrastructure investment requirements and no demands on your internal resources:
  Grow your sales
  Guide your clients to their nearest sales outlet
  Boost your distribution network
  Optimize your communications with more targeted campaigns
  Tailor the services on your public portals, intranet and extranet sites

ViaMichelin WEB PACKAGE V2 - NEW FEATURES:

Enhanced ergonomics: 
More user-friendly
Mapping with instantly accessible POI information 

New and useful content:
High-definition satellite photos, aerial and hybrid mapping
Option to export location information

to mobile phonesvia SMS :   Web2Mob module
and multi-brand GPS devices  
Web2Pnd module  

Enhanced "On-Line Manager" module for data administration:
Greater flexibility and data administration capabilities
A comprehensive statistical reporting tool
f Ability to manually save and amend the X, Y coordinates for your addresses

Web2Mob :
An optional new V2 module allowing you to send SMS messages from your website to mobile phones. A simple and practical feature installed on your website: Send instant text messages with:

Point of sale addresses
“Clickable” phone numbers
Active URL links enabling map requests from your mobile site
Optional customised text


Web2Pnd :
An optional new V2 module enabling you to sending POI information to multi-brand GPS devices

As you would expect, ViaMichelin deploys its advanced technology in the Web Package:

  An ASP Solution, developed and hosted by ViaMichelin
  Seamless integration respecting the graphic design and ergonomics of your site
  Real-time data updates via XML queries
  Fast and simple set-up with no infrastructure investment requirements on your part
  Regular map updates, route plans and other ViaMichelin geographic content
  Continuous service availability with fast display and response times
  Personal support and assistance from local ViaMichelin technical and commercial teams


SIMPLE IMPLEMENTATION IN 3 STAGES
  1. You choose the modules and geographical coverage which match your needs. You specify the number of elements you wish to geolocate.
  2. You sign a future-proof service contract covering the whole of the service : hosting of data, distribution of service, hardware, software, maps and technical support.
  3. ViaMichelin geocodes the data you supply to us, carries out the technical integration of your solution on the basis of your constraints and puts your service on line.


 Situate a location or an address  Search & select the right location

 Go there…  Personalize your solution

 Administer your data and your solution  Make the most of our quality and wealth of 
 mapping content


SITUATE A LOCATION or AN ADDRESS
   
   
Locate a commercial location on an  access plan BUSINESS MAP – Locate each location (outlets, branches/agencies, establishments, etc.) on a town or district plan. To enable people to find their way around more quickly, the plan is centred on this location which can be represented by your logo.
   
Locate a point by an address search MAP PORTAL– Enables the internet user to carry out a free address search based on the name of a town, a postcode, a region, a tourist sight, a railway station... and to display its access plan.
   
Visually search for a location from the map VISUAL SEARCH – Displays all your locations in a given geographical area on a navigable map. The internet user carries out and deepens his search intuitively, by successive zooms on the area which interests him.
The MULTICRITERIA option displays on a navigable map only shows the locations matching the criteria selected by the internet user,
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SEARCH & SELECT THE RIGHT LOCATION
   
   
Select the location
nearest to an address
BUSINESS FINDER – Indicates the distance between your locations and the address specified by the internet user and presents them in order of proximity. The number of locations displayed and the search radius (as the crow flies/by road) can be parameterized. 
The MULTICRITERIA option permits a proximity search based on an address according to criteria predefined by the business. By selecting the criteria (type of products, opening hours, characteristics of the establishment, etc.), the internet user obtains a list of the locations exactly matching to their criteria.
   
Have all the useful information BUSINESS PROFILE – Gives access to detailed information (opening hours, access plan, photos, descriptions, etc.) on each of your locations situated in an area or on a route determined by the internet user.
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GO THERE…
 
   
Calculate the route to go to a commercial location ROUTE FINDER – Calculates and displays the route to go to a commercial location from any address specified by the internet user.
   
Calculate the route from/to/via any address ROUTE FINDER PORTAL – Enables the internet user to calculate freely routes between the departure and arrival points of his/her choice, complying with desired stopping places and points passed through .
   
Promote the locations along a route ROUTE PLUS–Combines route calculation and search for locations along a route or in a geographical area determined by the internet user. The user views his route and the results of his search on an interactive map and in detailed driving directions.
The MULTICRITERIA option makes it possible to show only the locations matching the criteria selected by the internet user.
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PERSONALIZE YOUR SOLUTION
 
 
ViaMichelin has a local technical support team providing personalized monitoring during the various phases of the integration cycle. To go further, we make additional services available.
   
Enhance in real time the Web Package solution with your business’s
data
OPEN PACKAGE – By combining the ViaMichelin geographical information and the information from your business’s systems, Open Package can calculate in real time the distance and time between a vehicle and its destination, locate any moving object equipped with a GPS, indicate the outlets where the product sought is available or display along a route the hotels having availability at time “t”... The exchanges are done by XML requests and ViaMichelin supports you in this integration.
   
Direct access DYNAMIC DISPLAY – Permits direct access to your Web Package modules via a URL (internet address).
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ADMINISTER YOUR DATA AND YOUR SOLUTION
   
   
Manage and update
your data autonomously
ON-LINE MANAGER – Enables you to manage your account and your databases securely via a simple browser. You can thus monitor use of the ViaMichelin services, update your address database (amendment, addition, deletion) and the information accompanying each location, parameterize the selection criteria for each address, choose the suitable access plan, etc..
   
Automate the updating
of your address databases
AUTOMATIC DATA UPDATE – Makes available to you a dedicated FTP or FTPs sites enabling updated data to be put on line regularly and automatically. TXT address files can be imported into ON-LINE MANAGER from an in-house application for complete or partial replacement of the address database.
   
Adapt the solution to
suit users’ expectations
ADVANCED STATISTICS – Supplies detailed statistics for monitoring and analysing users’ demands and behaviour such as: number of visits, number and types of pages displayed per visit, most requested access plans, routes and information sheets, etc..
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MAKE THE MOST OF OUR QUALITY AND WEALTH OF MAPPING CONTENT
   
   
Geographical coverage
  • 238 countries and over 19 million kms of roads covered
  • 14 types of roads and 10 types of surfaces (green spaces, lakes, etc.)
  • Annual updating of maps
  • Up to 21 levels of scales, from continent to street
   
Real-time content Automatically up dating and ov taking into account of scheduled traffic events (planned roadworks, closure of passes, etc.) in route calculations.
   
ViaMichelin thematic content expected
by the user
Michelin Green Guide, petrol stations, garages, car parks, weather forecast, handy local services .
 
   


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ViaMichelin’s geolocating services for businesses:
geolocating, mapping for businesses, route plans for businesses,
outlet searches, distribution networks, business mobility,
business travel, business fleet management, geomarketing,
BtoB services and content, Maps & Drive API