Our Partners

Working Together — STI Partners with Today's Leading Demographic Service Providers

Like Synergos Technologies Inc., our market-leading partners are forward-thinking companies whose approach is both innovative and results oriented. Working together, we deliver demographic systems that enable market researchers to gain the maximum benefit from their market research activities. The result is better informed and more profitable decisions.

What do you want to build today? Contact any of these companies to gain access to STI's complete suite of demographic and ancillary data products.

	Dakota Worldwide Inc. Elliott Olson CEO Minneapolis, MN www.dakotaww.com	(800) 475-4505
Dakota Worldwide Inc. is primarily involved in the analysis of return and the quantification of risk for capital investments with a spatial dimension. Projects include determining sales projections for stores and networks, macro overviews for planning, and expert testimony. Dakota has developed decision support software including: Quintillion, a geographical executive information system developed at McDonald's; Locus Pro, a supermarket site location system; QSL, a site location system for quick-serve restaurants; Octane, a network planning system for retail petroleum; Shipping, a site location program for postal and overnight delivery systems; and LocusPharm, a site location system for drug stores.
	Spatial Insights, Inc. Don Segal President Bethesda, MD www.spatialinsights.com	(800) 347-5291
Spatial Insights specializes in providing project consulting and mapping services, mapping software, training, and customized geographic and demographic data products and systems for business applications. The firm offers a range of GIS services, including user needs assessment, GIS database design and construction, data reformatting services, digitizing and geocoding facilities, cartographic map production, trade area analysis, demographic profiling and site selection project consulting services, custom application development, system training, and customer support. Spatial Insights provides clients with a spectrum of data products, ranging from standard geographic, demographic, and business data, to data assembled according to specific user defined geographical areas and layers.
	Mapping Analytics Cindy Reid Partner Rochester, NY www.mappinganalytics.com	(877) 893-6490
Mapping Analytics offers analytical consulting, software, and data to help businesses profile customers, accurately assess market opportunity, select successful retail and franchise sites, and plan sales and service territories. Founded in 1989, Mapping Analytics is led by an experienced leadership team with a background in consumer marketing and proven success in geographic analytics, mapping, project management, and application development. The firm's focus is business management, including sales, marketing, real estate, strategic planning, and GIS consulting. Clients span virtually every business segment, from manufacturing/distribution, banking/finance, retail, real estate, and restaurants to marketing/media/advertising, insurance, and health care.
	SRC, LLC Dean Stoecker CEO Orange, CA www.extendthereach.com	(714) 516-2400
Founded in 1997, SRC delivers technology solutions and applications to mid-market and Fortune 500 companies for data storage, retrieval, management, reporting, and analysis of both spatial and non-spatial data. With core competencies in strategic mapping, consumer and business demographics, database manipulation and system tools development, SRC's custom-tailored solutions are designed to have an immediate impact on strategic planning, marketing, and business success. When undertaking the implementation of and deployment of solutions across the enterprise, SRC ensures that the systems are designed to rapidly and seamlessly integrate into the most complex IT environments. Nearly 250,000 users worldwide depend on SRC solutions to obtain specialized consumer and business insight within local, regional, and global markets.
	geoVue Jim Stone President Woburn, MA www.geovue.com	(781) 938-3800
geoVue is a provider of location optimization and modeling solutions for retail and restaurant chains and franchises seeking to maximize return on capital investment. geoVue's solutions automate and improve the store development process, from prioritizing and selecting markets, to opening new locations, to closing underperforming locations. The company has developed a suite of applications that can be deployed within any enterprise, large or small, and tailored to address the specific business and technical needs of our clients and their teams. geoVue's deep domain expertise has helped leading chains nationwide optimize store networks and maximize ROI.
	Tactician Robert Reading President Andover, MA www.tactician.com	(978) 475-4475
Tactician is a software and services provider of integrated sales, geomarketing and media solutions used for developing and executing geographically targeted resource and investment decisions. The company has been delivering groundbreaking business mapping applications and technologies since 1988. It's proprietary core analytic engine and mapping technology offers support for both desktop and web-based applications and solutions. Tactician has proven itself superior in retail analytics, performance modeling, data integration, data visualization and return on investment for its customers. Today, Tactician provides the worlds fastest, most efficient, highest capacity Geographic Resource Investment Decision (GRID) systems.
	Trade Area Systems Bill Dakai Executive Vice-President Attleboro, MA www.tradeareasystems.com	(508) 223-3003
Trade Area Systems, Inc. (TAS) delivers site selection tools for retail real estate development and promotion planning capabilities for retail marketing. TAS's proven decision support technologies were created using real life experience in both real estate development and large-chain retail market research. TAS products include: Trade Area Analyst, a GIS-mapping, and demographics retrieval system specifically designed for retail real estate; TAS model™, an advanced spatial interaction modeler that uses market data to accurately model shopping patterns; and TAS Online™, a browser-based mapping and demographics information system that makes it easy to get site data from anywhere.
	TerraNOVA International David Ries President Slingerlands, NY www.terranova4mapping.com	(518) 478-9525
TerraNOVA International was established in the early 1990s to provide customized digital mapping solutions for business and government using the demographic industry's maturing suite of software and data products. Today TerraNOVA International is a provider of desktop and Internet-enabled products and solutions for business intelligence applications. TerraNOVA helps companies transform information in their corporate databases into a business advantage by discovering unseen patterns and trends. This insight helps companies understand marketplace demographics, manage assets, and allocate resources more effectively.
	TETRAD Computer Applications Inc. Wilson Baker President Ferndale, WA www.tetrad.com	(800) 663-1334
For more than four decades Tetrad Computer Applications Inc. has been developing marketing, engineering, and management applications software for personal computers and the Internet. Tetrad's PCensus software for Demographic and Mapping Analysis together with STI's PopStats provides tools for location analysis, site selection, and customer targeting. In a few clicks, PCensus' SiteScan and SiteScore can evaluate and identify the sites that best fit your specific business needs. Combined with a GIS platform - MapInfo, ArcView, or MapPoint - PopStats' updated demographics are key to helping your organization make better decisions.
	TerraSeer Justin Holman CEO Ann Arbor, MI www.terraseer.com	(800) 283-5256
TerraSeer provides analytical software that facilitates statistical analysis and visualization of geographic data. Users can create linked animations (maps, scatter plots, etc.) of their data to reveal patterns in geographic space and time, and then develop predictive statistical models using techniques such as geographically weighted regression. The software was originally developed with funds from the National Cancer Institute to explore relationships between human health and the environment. The resulting "space-time" approach has enabled new business applications, including real estate price forecasting, product inventory monitoring, and consumer behavior trend analysis. TerraSeer also offers analytical consulting and software customization services.
	Forum Analytics Paul Sill President Chicago, IL www.forumanalytics.com	(800) 689-1652
Forum Analytics has been serving retail customers since 2001. Having analyzed over 50,000 retail sites generating $70 billion in annual in revenues, Forum's experienced staff of statisticians, analysts, and programmers brings a creative blend of academic and applied expertise to bear on every project. A partial list of clients includes household names such as Little Caesars, Yum! Brands, Ace Hardware, J Crew, and Trek Bicycles. With over 40 years of combined retail expertise, Forum knows the food service and retail industries. Forum will provide the analytics needed to validate or challenge market instincts, resulting in true data-driven decision making.
	x-span results Tracy Nagel Partner Durham, N.C. www.xspanresults.com	(919) 768-0667
Founded in 2000, x-span results inc. provides real-estate decision makers with technologies that drive efficiency and productivity across all dimensions of the site development and management process. Leading retailers use x-span's flagship products, Site Decision Systems and SiteDecSys.com, to conduct scenario planning and disseminate information that reduces the complexity and improves the quality of real-estate decisions. x-span results' solutions are customized to incorporate each client's unique business drivers, and scalable to meet the needs of any size organization.
	Site Dynamics William Hearn COO Cary, NC www.sidyn.com	(919) 827-1088 (x804)
Site Dynamics offers SiteXcellerator™, a web-based software platform that allows state, regional, and local economic development agencies, utility companies, and others put their sites and buildings online and in front of expansion-ready companies. The platform allows visitors to companies' websites to search for sites and buildings in their markets, and combines the best mapping technologies with value-added reporting and intuitive search capabilities. As the only web-based site selection and property promotion application developed by site selection professionals, SiteXcellerator combines labor and demographic data and employer data in an easy to use interface that is fully integrated with clients' websites.
	DataSource Technology, Inc. Brad Shelton President Naperville, IL www.datasourcetech.com	(630) 416-9924
DataSource Technology, Inc., is a privately held company that specializes in providing project consulting, mapping services, mapping software, training, and computerized geographic and demographic data and systems for business analysis applications. With over 25 years of experience, DataSource Technology has a unique understanding of the data, software, and service components required for successful implementations of market research analysis. DataSource Technology maintains strong relationships with a wide variety of Original Software Manufacturers and data providers - and offers a wide array of products from software, to data, to roads, streets, and boundaries.