Multimap Lights up......

31 July 2007, 12:57pm

Multimap Lights up the Path to Sun Microsystems' Offices in Key International Markets with its In-line Mapping Service!


Multimap, one of the world’s leading online mapping and location-based services providers, today announced the implementation of its In-line service for many of Sun Microsystems’ websites worldwide.

Thanks to the site enhancement, visitors to Sun’s offices in Europe, Singapore, and some South American countries, are now able to access elegant, accurate and content-rich, interactive maps pinpointing their exact location, in a few seconds.

Simon Bardrick, Group Leader, International Sites, Global Web Publishing, Sun Microsystems, said, “We are constantly evolving our leading-edge products and technologies, and it’s of the utmost importance that we keep all our customers abreast of these developments, and fully trained on how to implement and maintain them. A key part of our customer interaction involves on-site support, and there’s no better way to get the whole experience off to a good start than by ensuring our customers can find their way to our offices easily and quickly. Whether they’re based in Singapore, Argentina, France or the UK, thanks to Multimap’s street-level coverage of most countries, they can see exactly where they need to go on an attractive map.

“Given the global nature of our business, it is essential that our mapping provider have the highest-quality and most comprehensive coverage available on the market, on a global scale. Thanks to its strategy of cherry-picking the best data providers for each region and scale, Multimap was the clear choice on this front. Moreover, its competitive and transparent pricing model, the flexibility and robustness of its services, and the availability of its Customer Support team 24x7, made it the clear choice of mapping provider for us,” he continued.

To access a list of all the Sun Microsystems office locations in a country of interest, visitors to www.sun.com click on the ”Worldwide” link in the top right hand corner of the screen; and select a country followed by the ”About Sun” and ”Sun Locations” links. To access a street-level, interactive map pinpointing an office’s exact whereabouts with the Sun Microsystems logo, they then select the ”maps and directions” link. Maps of other office locations in the same country are only a step away; customers simply click on a tab above the map to change their view.

Steve Frost, Multimap’s Head of Worldwide B2B Sales, commented, “It is a pleasure to welcome Sun Microsystems to our portfolio of over 1,200 business clients across the globe. We are really pleased with the extremely attractive implementation of our In-line service, which bears testament to the values of excellence in innovation and high-quality of the brand, and we are delighted to hear that feedback from Sun’s customers has been suitably positive too!”

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