Why Teams Get More from MapBusinessOnline
MapBusinessOnline has long helped thousands of businesses visualize sales territories, plan optimized routes, and make better decisions using geographic data. But did you know that the platform is even more powerful when used collaboratively across your team?
If you're using MapBusinessOnline as an individual, you could be missing out on key advantages like shared territory updates, consistent map data across teams, and better coordination across your organization.
Here’s how team mapping applications can transform the way your business operates:
Real-World Use Cases: How Teams Like Yours Collaborate
Sales Teams – Sales Territory Mapping and Route Planning
Sales managers create and maintain detailed territory maps, then share them with field sales reps to keep assignments clear and up to date. Reps can view territories, optimize their routes to visit more customers efficiently, and stay aligned with the sales team’s priorities. MapBusinessOnline supports hierarchical territory creation for building territories, regions, and divisions.
Marketing Departments – Market Analysis and Campaign Planning
Marketing teams create target market area maps to plan geographically focused campaigns more effectively. They often use demographic data, such as household income, age distribution, and population density, combined with customer addresses, drive time areas, and sales performance metrics. Teams plot potential customer locations, target market areas, and regions with high sales potential to focus their efforts where they matter most.
Customer Service – Service Coverage Coordination
Service managers visualize coverage areas to coordinate support teams and dispatch resources. By sharing a single authoritative map across the department, service teams minimize confusion and improve response times.
Finance and Operations – Travel Cost Estimation and Budget Planning
Teams in finance and operations use MapBusinessOnline to estimate travel costs by mapping customer locations and calculating driving distances and times. Planners can generate mileage estimates for sales reps or service technicians based on real-world routing, then use that data to forecast fuel costs, travel time, and regional expenses. Shared maps help coordinate budgets across departments and identify opportunities to reduce travel overhead.
Executive Leadership – Strategic Insights and Performance Visibility
Directors and managers access clear and informative maps prepared by data analysts, bringing territory performance, service coverage, and growth opportunities together in one tool for easier, faster, and better-informed decision-making.
Keep Everyone on the Same Page with Shared Maps and Data
With MapBusinessOnline, you can:
- Maintain a central repository of shared maps and datasets so your entire team is working from the same accurate, up-to-date information.
- Assign editing or view-only permissions. Maintain control of master data while enabling efficient collaboration.
Example in action: A customer support group uses shared maps to visualize service regions. When a manager updates a boundary, the entire team instantly sees the change - avoiding version mismatches.
Protect Sensitive Information with Map Access Controls
Collaboration doesn’t mean sacrificing security. MapBusinessOnline provides:
- Team member access control. You decide who can edit, view, or export maps.
- Single Sign-On (SSO) easy log-in access. Employees log in securely and quickly with corporate credentials through providers like Okta or Microsoft Entra ID.
- Enterprise-grade security. All your business data is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in secure Microsoft Azure data centers that meet rigorous compliance standards. You can read about Security to learn more about our practices.
Easier User Administration and Billing Control
Managing your organization’s access to MapBusinessOnline is easy:
- Centralized user management. Add or remove users and assign seats as your team evolves. Set-up project teams that focus on business challenges.
- Simplified billing. All subscriptions renew together for easy budgeting and record-keeping.
Note: SSO and user management features are only available for subscriptions of 5 or more users.
Ready to Map Smarter Across Your Organization?
Contact us today to set up your team with the shared business mapping tools and get the most value from your location data. MapBusinessOnline subscriptions include training for your team and offer help documentation, common application articles, and tutorial videos to make adoption smooth and successful. Access technical support through email, chat, and phone.
