Acquisition expands insurance risk analytics and real estate insights for CoreLogic customers for non-weather water and fire, hail and crime risk data

IRVINE, Calif.,—Jan. 22 2020— CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today announced the completion of the company’s acquisition of Location, Inc., a leader in geographic data sciences and predictive, location-based analytics for businesses across the U.S. and Canada.

Location, Inc.’s proprietary RiskSuiteTM and NeighborhoodScout® solutions combine the company’s deep spatial and property risk assets with advanced machine learning and analytics expertise to provide market insights, projections and risk assessments for the insurance, real estate, and finance sectors. Commercial and residential underwriters rely on Location, Inc.’s suite of claims risk products, including non-weather WaterRiskTM and FireRiskTM, as well as HailRiskTM, as the industry’s first claim probability and severity platform that predicts loss costs for these perils. CrimeRiskTM, the company’s high-resolution crime analytics, offers the most accurate and trusted crime risk data on the market today and is used by insurers across North America to help in mitigating risk and uncertainty in the underwriting workflow.

“Location, Inc.’s unique risk analytic products enhance the CoreLogic offering for property and casualty insurance by expanding our capabilities in predictive, location-based analytics,” said Steve Brewer, executive, Insurance and Spatial Solutions for CoreLogic. “Together,...

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Strong Operating Performance Highlighted by Revenue Growth and Favorable Mix, Significant Margin Expansion and Capital Return

IRVINE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — January 22, 2020 — CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX^[1]), a leading global provider of property information, insight, analytics and data-enabled solutions, today announced that it expects to modestly exceed its previously-issued financial guidance for the fourth quarter, and full-year of 2019 as summarized below:

• Full-year financial results expected to modestly exceed the top end of previously-issued revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS guidance ranges boosted by a strong fourth quarter 2019 performance.

$ in Millions, except per-share amounts	Top End of 2019 Guidance (Issued October 23, 2019)
Revenue	$1,760
Adjusted EBITDA(1)	$495
Adjusted EPS(1)	$2.75

⁽¹⁾ Definition of adjusted results, as well as other non-GAAP financial measures used by management, is included in the Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures section found at the end of the release....

• The expected outperformance of revenue compared with previously-issued financial

SAN DIMAS, Calif., Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sedaru, Inc. announced today that Nevada Irrigation District-CA (NID or District) has selected Sedaru for a five-year contract to deliver its real-time, enterprise asset and operational management system for NID's water distribution, treatment plant, hydropower, recreation, watershed, and fleet facilities.

The District was seeking to replace its current system, while extending an asset management framework to previously unsupported facilities. The Hydroelectric Department led a steering team consisting of Department Managers, IT, and consultants to identify and evaluate 10 different solutions prior to making a selection. Categories of criteria used in the evaluation included functional capability, industry fit, viability, and network presence, with goals including documentation and standardization of work processes, developing and centralizing an asset repository, and unifying work-related data within a common platform for its unique inventory of watershed, hydropower, fleet, raw water, and treated water infrastructure assets.

"I am confident that the new Sedaru asset management system will improve our efficiencies and allow us to work across departments and business lines using the same software," stated Remleh Scherzinger, General Manager, Nevada Irrigation District.

Sedaru will support workshops to review and develop use cases, workflows, and data structures for both horizontal and...

SANTA FE, N.M., Jan. 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Labs^[1], a New Mexico-based geospatial analytics company, today announced the availability of the Descartes Labs Platform^[2][3], the industry’s first-ever cloud-based geospatial analytics platform. It provides enterprises with a real-time geospatial data catalog and flexible modeling environment – all in one complete package.

By handling nearly all geospatial modeling functions through one secure solution in the cloud, organizations can quickly evaluate the output of models, speed development and proof-of-concept creation, and ultimately, transform their decision-making.

This modeling tool enables forecasting capabilities across industries, including agriculture, energy, sustainability, mining, shipping, financial services, and insurance, to facilitate everything from agricultural monitoring to mineral exploration. This is especially critical for commodity-focused companies facing sustainability and efficiency challenges, saving them millions of dollars in time and money by transforming the business quickly and cost-effectively.

The Descartes Labs platform unlocks the power of global-scale geospatial data for organizations that have never been able to access it before, opening up possibilities to add artificial intelligence (AI) as a new core competency. By removing the barriers to geospatial data science, the potential use cases for both sustainability and efficiency are limitless.

“The Descartes...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and TORONTO, Jan. 22, 2020 — (PRNewswire) —  Inpixon (Nasdaq: INPX^[1]), a leading indoor data company that specializes in delivering indoor intelligence, today announced its indoor mapping solution has been selected by a leading mental healthcare facility in North America. Utilizing Inpixon's indoor mapping platform, Jibestream, the solution is expected to allow patients to effectively search for and navigate to specific locations, such as reception areas, doctor and therapist offices, and testing areas and clinics, within the hospital's multi-building complex.

The U.S. healthcare market loses approximately $150 billion per year from missed medical appointments¹, due in part to the difficulty some patients face navigating complex buildings. Inpixon's indoor mapping and location platform is designed to empower users to create map-enabled solutions that enable patients to easily locate and navigate to destinations within the hospital complex, in turn, reducing missed or late appointments, as well as enhancing the patient experience. This user plans to implement the Inpixon mapping and location platform within its app-based solution in a manner that will, in addition to the benefits outlined above, also address regulations and requirements for those with disabilities by providing patients a filter to navigate a path that is handicap accessible.

Soumya Das, Chief Operating Officer, commented,...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 22, 2020 — (PRNewswire) —  Flowfinity Wireless Inc. today released a software update that allows users to manage data records and workflows geographically by rendering physical locations onto maps in reporting dashboards, leveraging data visualization to improve operations.

Organizations in a variety of industries including, environmental services, engineering, construction, and field services, currently utilize Flowfinity to capture field data and streamline custom workflows for daily operations and unique projects.

Location data can now be tied directly to digital workflows and tracked in popular GIS and mapping solutions, including Esri, MapBox, and MapTiler, within Flowfinity without the need to set up external integrations.

You can now create and edit field data directly in a dashboard map display widget that ties data records to locational GPS coordinates. This empowers users to visualize and analyze field data in its geospatial context to enhance operational intelligence. Connect to multiple map tile sources and custom styles to design your ideal mapping solution.

"We're very excited to bring mapping functionality to market, some of our most successful deployments have featured GIS mapping integrations and now those capabilities are included within the Flowfinity solution," said Alex Puttonen, Marketing Manager, Flowfinity. "This will have an immediate benefit...

D3060 light meets global regulations for UAV night flight and anti-collision lighting

OCEANSIDE, Calif., Jan. 16, 2020 — (PRNewswire) — FoxFury Lighting Solutions launches the D3060^[1], the most recent addition to the company's family of drone lights. The D3060 is a small format utility and drone light. Dual LEDs provide 360-degree lighting with up to 200 lumens. Various mounting options allow the 1.3 oz (37 g) light to fly on most drones and be used as a utility, anti-collision, or navigation light.

The D3060 has two independent lights, one on front (30-degree beam) and one on top (60-degree beam). They can operate independently or simultaneously. Both lights have low, high, and strobe modes. The strobe meets FAA and global regulations for UAV night flight and anti-collision drone lighting. Depending on the mode, the D3060 lasts from 1.5 to 3 hours. Users can recharge the LiPo battery via USB-C within 1.5 hours.

The D3060 comes with (2) 3M Dual Lock Fasteners, so users can mount it to almost any drone. Strap inserts are built into the base plate, so users can wear the light on helmets, clothing, bags, vests, etc. Once the light is mounted, users can rotate the light in any direction necessary with the 360-degree swivel base plate....

DENVER, Jan. 16, 2020 — (PRNewswire) — Operators of underground oil and gas flowlines in Colorado can comply with newly revised state regulations requiring accurate, universal flowline location data with a field service from EcoPoint Inc., a Colorado-based firm specializing in geospatial data solutions.

Published by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Jan. 14, the new regulations require operators to provide GIS mapping data of the full length of both operating and abandoned underground flowlines before the end of this year. The requirements expand on regulations that required location data for flowline start and end points, and were due Oct. 31, 2019.

"Oil and gas producers can quickly realize operational and asset management benefits with geospatial data management," said EcoPoint CEO Michael Clancy. Flowline GIS data is easily integrated into an existing database or it can provide the foundation for a valuable, active information system built for growth and accessibility.

"Whether it's a few feet or several miles, having precise location information can greatly reduce the time spent responding to the next line locate request," Clancy said. "Our clients report saving up to 70 percent on subsequent line locates."

EcoPoint's flowline mapping service...