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News Release: MapInfo’s Powerful Location Platform—Enterprise IT’s New Strategic Weapon

Envinsa Integrates Location Applications Throughout the Enterprise, Making Data Available to Everyone, Everywhere

Troy, NY—December 16, 2003— MapInfo (Nasdaq: MAPS) today announced EnvinsaTM, a location platform that allows business and government organisations worldwide to harness the power of location across the enterprise. For the first time, organisations can rely on a single, high-performance location platform to gain better insights into their data and drive better business decisions. Organisations already use location technology to plan logistics, fine-tune marketing programs, support tourism, offer shopping information, analyse sales and service routing, support emergency personnel and more. Frequently, however, these capabilities rely on isolated, limited GIS systems operated by specialists. The Envinsa location platform has been designed to centrally link an organisation’s location data to applications throughout its information system, giving every user instant access to enterprise-wide, location technology while eliminating the cost of managing diverse systems.

Developed from MapInfo’s proven miAware™ architecture, Envinsa scales to support large enterprises with thousands or even millions of simultaneous users and integrates with existing IT systems. Envinsa is standards-based technology that can be deployed on high-performance, centralised servers, which can be internally managed by the customer’s IT group to allow for value and cost to be shared amongst multiple stakeholders. Additionally, the Envinsa location platform’s component architecture allows for rapid application development. As a result, location intelligence can be quickly extended to support a variety of business needs in multiple business units, geographies and application environments including Web services—all without specialised GIS skills.

“By putting location data into the hands of everyone across the organisation, Envinsa empowers organisations to gain new perspectives on their markets, customers and business processes. Organisations can centrally manage their location infrastructure to minimise costs, while leveraging their investment more broadly and creating value across the enterprise.” said Mike Hickey, COO, MapInfo.

For more information about Envinsa, visit www.envinsa.com.

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About MapInfo
MapInfo Corporation is a global software company that integrates software, data and services to help customers realise greater value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions. MapInfo solutions are available in 20 languages through a network of strategic partners and distribution channels in 60 countries. Headquartered in Troy, NY, MapInfo Corporation is on the World Wide Web at www.mapinfo.com. The company’s UK and European headquarters are in Windsor, UK.

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Of Note
This press release contains forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties. Any statement not a statement of historical fact is a forward-looking statement, including without limitation statements concerning demand for and benefits of MapInfo products and integration of MapInfo products with existing solutions. Market acceptance, potential integration difficulties, decreased customer spending and economic trends may cause these statements not to be true or to differ materially from the manner presented. MapInfo takes no responsibility to update any forward-looking statements.

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