Most fleets are using some, if not all, of their software products through a subscription rather than the more traditional client-server approach. A downside of the SaaS model is its linearity, meaning users have limited options for customizing the software to meet their specific needs.
Telematics provider Geotab announced a new product that changes the traditional SaaS model during the Geotab Extend virtual conference, March 23-24. The new product, Extended Services, will allow fleets to create secondary databases for sharing vehicle telematics data with their own applications as well as granting secure access to third parties through an open application programming interface (API).
Colin Sutherland, Geotab’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, describes Extended Services as a “scalable way for customers to use data.”
Prior to creating the new service, fleets that wanted to share data with third parties had to provide login credentials to their own Geotab platform, although they could limit access based on user permissions. Extended Services creates an entirely separate database that only contains data that fleets want to share.
Colin Sutherland, Geotab executive vice president of sales and marketing, describes Extended Services as a “scalable way for customers to use data.”
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