TomTom Business Solutions Debuts Software Alliance Program

CONCORD, Mass., Jul 30, 2012
TomTom Business Solutions today announced the launch of the TomTom Software Alliance Program, a software integration, marketing, and sales program that delivers additional value to commercial fleets by integrating core TomTom fleet management technology with industry leading software. TomTom already has over 100 industry leading software partners from the office automation, CRM, ERP and Field Service Automation sectors as well as specialized industry software for towing, service, and transportation fleets.

TomTom's Software Alliance Program provides easy access to TomTom Business Solutions' rich set of APIs, enabling the development of integrated “Over-the-Road” vehicle and driver management capabilities. Leveraging these APIs and the company's industry-leading map data, IQ routes and HD traffic, TomTom and it's partners can rapidly deploy a host of solutions including: quickest ETA vehicle assignment; real-time ETA calculations; two-way communications for dispatching and work-order flow; integrated turn-by-turn navigation; real-time GPS tracking and driver safety features.

Our fleet customers are already realizing a high degree of value from TomTom's fleet management solutions and our value-added software partners said Michael Geffroy, vice president, TomTom Business Solutions. Our decision to make more of our core technology freely available to more software companies shows our commitment to partnering. We believe our new Software Alliance program will lead to greater levels of innovation and value-add to a broader range of commercial fleets

Working with TomTom, we have significantly increased the value of our solution for our customer, and this has enabled us to generate more revenue and profits to our company said Jim Weaver, CEO of Tracker Management. We are very excited about exploiting the new APIs to factor real-time traffic info into our capabilities

TomTom is an essential component of our solution and path to market. Having a partner with a clear focus on developing “over-the-road” management solutions allows us to focus on our core competencies said Greg Wietholter, president of Route Solutions. The new software alliance program gives us more opportunities to remain competitive and on the leading edge of technology