Felt 3.0 Brings Intuitive Geospatial Technology to the Enterprise
July 16 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New apps and dashboards, powered by native
Postgres and Snowflake integrations, unlock modern GIS capabilities
across the organization
Felt, the world’s first collaborative mapping tool, today
launched Felt 3.0 with new features and native database
integrations to unlock powerful Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) capabilities for the enterprise. Designed to make data more
accessible and actionable for stakeholders across an entire
organization, Felt 3.0 enables teams with modern GIS tooling so
they can visualize, analyze, and present the insights and map data
that matter most to their operations—regardless of their industry
or expertise.
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Felt is renowned for combining the familiarity of browser-based
collaboration tools with professional mapping workflows, making it
easier for professionals to extract and share meaningful insights.
The company’s 2.0 release in November 2023 introduced a new UI and
spatial analysis tools as the first step to enable teams without
GIS expertise to gather insights from geospatial data—from
recruiting, analytics, management, and more. Now, Felt 3.0 expands
on that mission by enabling teams to connect their database
directly to Felt and build interactive components and dashboards
that are specific to their team’s workflow.
"I invested in Felt because I’ve seen firsthand with Notion how
important collaboration is for organizations," said Akshay Kothari,
Co-Founder of Notion. “Now with Felt 3.0, the team has truly
unlocked the ability for any team to collaborate and make decisions
with their geospatial data. It’s no small feat to turn massive
datasets into enterprise-level visualizations and analytics that
non-experts can interact with. We’re excited to see how
organizations take advantage of their newfound GIS
superpowers.”
Introducing Felt 3.0 for Enterprise
The foundation for expanding GIS use cases to the wider
organization is enabling teams to work with geospatial data that’s
both connected to a source of truth and up-to-date. With Felt 3.0,
companies can now directly connect Postgres/PostGIS and Snowflake
databases to Felt and keep the data fresh with automated live data
updates. Support for other third-party data sources, including
Databricks, Amazon’s S3 and Redshift, Google’s BigQuery, and
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC), will be available soon.
Felt 3.0’s new components and dashboards help teams make sense
of geospatial data and answer questions specific to their
operations, like “How is sales coverage across our territories?” or
“Which areas have the highest wildfire risk?” Without any training
or time required to deploy, teams can build customized dashboards
with five types of components to visualize and measure map data.
These features eliminate the need for business intelligence tools
that aren't built to filter or visualize geospatial data and
difficult, desktop-based GIS tools that lack collaboration.
Customers like Sharetown, the County of Santa Barbara, and
Terrabotics are leveraging Felt 3.0’s capabilities to build
geospatial apps specialized to their team’s use case and
workflow:
- Logistics company Sharetown isolates geospatial and sales data
in Felt to monitor field rep performance and identify coverage gaps
across territories.
- The County of Santa Barbara’s Public Works department lays
routes in Felt to map road closures and communicate them to first
responders and the general public.
- The analytics team at Terrabotics gathers oil and gas
intelligence to monitor industrial gas emissions across the planet,
and turns it into an interactive Felt map for clients.
“Managing return orders across the U.S. with thousands of field
reps is an operational feat with complex logistics challenges. The
amount of data we had caused constant crashes or would take our
sales reps five minutes to load in our old software. It was so easy
with Felt,” said Michelle Denna, VP of Sales at Sharetown. “The map
allows our team to be more efficient, and has become a critical
part of our sales and recruiting processes.”
Developers can also use Felt’s new API to dramatically cut down
engineering time for custom geospatial app implementations. The API
makes it easy to create and style elements and listen to map
updates via webhooks, while providing a Python SDK so professionals
can continue to work in their preferred tools.
“Teams shouldn’t have to rely on a single expert or be stuck in
a static map, PDF, or complex tool, especially when modern app
experiences can help them get answers faster. Felt 3.0 equips
entire teams with GIS capabilities, and provides more ways to get
data out of silos and into the hands of stakeholders, clients, and
constituents,” said Felt CEO and co-founder, Sam Hashemi. “Putting
geospatial apps and dashboards into the hands of professionals is a
major unlock across organizations, and we’re proud to be bringing
this technology to the masses.”
To try Felt 3.0 today, visit:
https://felt.com/blog/gis-databases-and-geospatial-dashboard-visualizations/
About Felt
Felt’s founders have a proven track record of innovation. CEO
Sam Hashemi's early career included designing interfaces for
astronauts, scientists, judges, and other folks who were using
technology from the '70s. His first company Remix scaled up to 400+
cities in 17 countries and was one of the largest software
acquisitions in 2021. His co-founder Can Duruk, CTO, was an early
engineer at Uber, Digg, Upthere and runs one of the most popular
technology newsletters on the internet.
Felt has raised $19.5M in funding from Footwork, Bain Capital
Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Designer Fund, Will Larson, Yves Behar,
Guillermo Rauch, Julianna Lamb, Uma Chingunde, Scott Belsky,
Allison Pickens, Akshay Kothari, Dylan Field, John Lilly, SHAKTI,
and Julia & Kevin Hartz.
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