TomTom and Advantage Integrated Solutions Partner

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TomTom and Advantage Integrated Solutions Partner to Deliver an Intelligent Fleet Routing Solution for Businesses

TomTom PRO Series, Coupled with Advantage SmartRoutes, Offers Enhanced Route Planning and Navigation for Mobile Workforces; Automatically Determines the Most Efficient Routes

CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TomTom, the world’s leading navigation solutions provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Advantage Integrated Solutions, a premier Intuit QuickBase® consultant-developer, to optimize business fleet organization and itinerary planning on TomTom PRO Series navigation devices. TomTom PRO Series, a new line of navigation devices developed specifically for businesses with mobile workforces, offers best-of-breed GPS navigation, a free map update and premium support services.

Coupled with the Advantage SmartRoutes rich internet application, the TomTom PRO Series now offers a way for fleet managers and route dispatchers to organize, plan and optimize routes. This solution also gives drivers detailed mapping information about the locations to which they are navigating.

“Every day companies with mobile workforces are challenged to direct all their people to all the places they need to go. The TomTom PRO Series navigation devices, combined with the Advantage SmartRoutes application, provides a complete and affordable business fleet solution that marries the best in point-to-point navigation with the easiest route planning,” said Scott Wyatt, CEO of Advantage Integrated Solutions. “And our customers appreciate having a central Web repository to hold and manage all their location and address information. In short, the TomTom PRO Series and SmartRoutes software solution is essential for any sized business fleet looking to maximize dispatcher and driver productivity, reduce driving costs, improve safety and enhance service levels.”

The TomTom PRO Series is comprised of two models: the PRO 4000 and the PRO 8000. Both include innovative TomTom features such as TomTom Map Share™ – TomTom’s unique map improvement technology that enables users to access the most up-to-date map information available – the “Help Me!” emergency resources menu, millions of points of interest and TomTom’s Latest Map Guarantee. The PRO 8000 also comes equipped with premium navigation features such as IQ Routes™ – TomTom’s proprietary routing technology plans the best route based on actual average drive times – Advanced Lane Guidance, Voice Address Input and Bluetooth® handsfree calling. These exclusive TomTom features enable companies to improve their day-to-day planning and to increase productivity, while also ensuring the safety of their drivers.

The TomTom PRO Series with Advantage SmartRoutes is highly customizable and supports a range of business routing scenarios. The following is a common example:

Central dispatch – Using Advantage SmartRoutes and TomTom’s “Add to TomTom” functionality, a dispatcher can easily centralize and automatically geo-code map, customer and other destination information. Then they visually create and download full, optimized itineraries onto each PRO Series device for the driver. The populated, enhanced TomTom navigation units take the drivers from wherever they are to all the places they need to go, in sequence, most efficiently. Destination data can be input online or easily imported from Excel or other source systems.

“TomTom is committed to providing the best business navigation solutions on the market,” said Tim Roper, executive vice president of sales for TomTom Inc. “Companies increasingly deploy the TomTom PRO Series line to ensure easy and safe navigation, while achieving measurable productivity gains. Our partnership with companies like Advantage Integrated Solutions gives TomTom a powerful solution to offer enhanced services like optimized route planning.”

For more information please visit http://www.tomtom.com/pro/. For a free trial of the Advantage SmartRoutes you may also visit http://www.advantagequickbase.com/tomTom/tomtom-landing.php?partnerid=TomTom+Sales.

About Advantage

Advantage Integrated Solutions, Inc. is a premier developer of packaged and custom integrated online (SaaS) solutions that can improve performance in Operations, Sales, Marketing, Personnel, Projects and other areas. Advantage applications centralize and transform data into useful information and improve workflows across boundaries. They deliver uniquely cost-effective solutions on the Intuit QuickBase and Workplace platforms, including cloud and legacy integrations. Advantage is certified QuickBase Business Consultant, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For more information, go to www.advantagequickbase.com.

About TomTom

TomTom NV is the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps. TomTom NV has over 3,300 employees working in four business units – TomTom, Tele Atlas, Automotive and WORK.

TomTom's products are developed with an emphasis on innovation, quality, ease of use, safety and value. TomTom's products include all-in-one navigation devices which enable customers to navigate right out of the box; these are the award-winning TomTom GO family, the TomTom XL and TomTom ONE ranges and the TomTom RIDER. Additionally, independent research proves that TomTom products have a significant positive effect on driving and road safety.

Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world’s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers digital map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The Automotive business unit develops and sells navigation systems and services to car manufacturers and OEMs. TomTom WORK combines industry leading communication and smart navigation technology with leading edge tracking and tracing expertise.

TomTom NV was founded in 1991 in Amsterdam and has offices in Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. TomTom is listed at Euronext Amsterdam in The Netherlands. For more information, go to www.tomtom.com.

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