About Us
Why MBI?
Discover why we are the data provider of choice for our clients
Michael Bauer International is a manufacturer of international market and geographic data. Our core competence is the production of globally consistent and comparable datasets. Our geodata helps you to visualize and analyze your market. This allows you to make proactive rather than reactive business decisions. Regardless of whether you operate nationally or internationally, comparable, homogeneous data is the basis for your planning. Only with a data basis that is uniform in terms of content and geometry can analyses be carried out that ultimately provide you with a sound basis for decision-making.
Key Differentiators
Globally consistent and comparable data
Strict quality control
Individual consulting and support
Continuous updating
100 % GDPR compliant
What other benefits make us the best data provider for our clients?
Seamless global coverage
One of the first HERE Distributors
20 years of experience in the field of geodata and location intelligence
Data is our passion
Uniform database: Same formats, structure, and development methodology
Wide range of geo and market data
All data from a single source and compatible
Fast feedback, because the right data basis is essential for important decisions
Strong partner network in numerous countries for high-quality local service & consulting
Individual, customized data available on request
QUALITY STANDARDS AND UPDATES
As a manufacturer of international data, we know about the requirements for the data. Therefore, companies from all industries globally trust the quality of our data. We ensure these standards through strict and continuous quality controls as well as releasing annual updates.
WHY ARE DATA FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES / PROVIDERS USUALLY NOT COMPARABLE?
The bases of our data are primarily data of the respective statistical offices, with a relatively high quality of data and a predominantly international standardization of data collection and presentation. Disadvantages are the mostly country-specific, inhomogeneous data vintages and structures e.g. in different variable structures, territorial states and geographical levels. Geometrically different meaning that the borders between countries do not seamlessly match, leaving overlaps and gaps.
In simple terms, this means: Data from different sources are usually not directly comparable in terms of content and geometry.
HOW DOES MBI PROCESS THIS DATA?
With many years of experience in working large amounts of data sources, we consider ourselves to be experts in homogenizing national and international databases. For more than a decade, we have been working hand in hand with the statistical offices and government institutions worldwide, to ensure that we have the best data available for our products. We have an expert team of data scientist and data analysts based in Germany that process all the original data we collect and match these to our current geographical area boundaries. When processing the data and building products we ensure that the same file structures, formats, column titles, attribute naming, and uniform methodology is applied. This enables to ease in swapping our data files when doing analysis or planning in more than one country or even globally. We currently have over 200 different variables on multiple area boundary levels for almost every country in the world.
OUR WORLDWIDE DATA AND SERVICES AT A GLANCE
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHICS & ECONOMIC DATA
Mobile Trace Data
SMART COMBINATION
Our globally consistent and comparable socio-economic data is compatible with the territorial vintages of the worldwide area boundaries. They also combine well with our political risk data and HERE’s maps and other products, which we offer as one of the world’s first distributor. Thus, we offer you the best basis for well-founded and data-based decisions.
WHO ARE OUR CUSTOMERS?
We currently provide data to most of the cross-border retail companies globally. Meaning retailers that have multiple stores and operations in more than one country. Our data is used by leading social media companies for advertising marketing and geofencing. Our boundary data is embedded in the world’s largest BI solutions. We proudly are the preferred data provider to world’s leading GIS software companies Pitney Bowes (MapInfo) and ESRI Inc.. We also provide data to the three largest global business consulting companies, which use our data in their customer projects to assist their customers drive transformation.
These are just a few highlights of the customers we currently have the privilege to provide our data. We strive to build long term relationships founded on respect, trust, honesty and most of all discretion.
Together with our Authorized Reseller, we’re here to help organizations around the world get the most out of their data.
COUNTRY AVAILABILITY
Europe | North America | South America | Asia | Oceania | Africa
DATA FORMATS
Tab delimited file (TXT) | KML | Access database (MDB) | Excel (xls) | Esri Shapefile (.shp) | Esri Geodatabase (.gdb) | MapInfo (.tab) | MapInfo MIF/MID | more on request
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