If you're thinking about using mapping and location intelligence in your business, chances are you've already experimented with your $200 monthly credit of Google Maps APIs. Now you're ready to take the next step and create a production system. While you could carry on alone and set up credit card payments, here are then reasons to use a Google Maps Premier Partner to help you create a successful Google Maps solution.
1. Expert advice
We can advise you on the best APIs to enable from the Google Maps Platform (GMP) stack. There are differing versions of most of the 17 APIs/SDKs, so selecting the right ones is key to a fully optimised deployment that offers both the functionality you want, and offers the best ROI.
2. Product roadmap visibility
We'll keep you up to date with the Google Maps product roadmap and when appropriate, offer you the opportunity to be part of Alpha and BETA testing on new location offerings that bring value to your business. Google Maps has recently turned 15 years old and the services and solutions have changed greatly in that time.
3. Volume pricing discounts
The Google Maps Platform offers Volume Discounts, which are not available to the same degree on Credit Card Pay as you Go. We can help you see the real value of Volume Discounts available across your organisation where Google Maps are deployed. Each band offers ~20% more discount than the previous - well worth having a Partner who can offer this!
4. Deeper levels of technical and billing support
The GMP Console does include email led support with Google Cloud. However, if you want the ability to pick up the phone and sound out ideas, new services that will use Google Maps or discuss your billing - we have a trained and SLA led support team to be with you all the way.
5. Advice on payment options and usage
We'll propose various payment options including monthly payment with 30 day terms, pre-payment for an agreed timeframe based on usage estimations, or direct debit.
6. Suggestions around Google Maps best practice
Our experts will ensure that your solutions and services are keeping you competitive in your market. With over 150 customers currently on GMP (and many more on GCP), we are well positioned to ensure you get the best ongoing advice through structured Quarterly Business Reviews and Optimisation Workshops.
"All in all, the changes we’ve made with Ancoris help in how we use the Maps APIs have allowed us to reduce our costs by more than 80% over a period of about four months — and we’re still finding new ways to refine our operations and get further small reductions." - Odhran Ginnity, Director, XYZCO
7. Proactive Account Management
We'll proactive provide expert account management to help you to monitor your spend, help set budget alerts and make the procurement process simple and easy - never be suprised by a large monthly bill increase!
8. Uncover new opportunities in your data
Location applications involve A LOT of data! Working with a partner like Ancoris that works across the whole Google Cloud Platform (including Maps, Cloud, Machine Learning, AI, etc) will help you gain new insights from your data and potentially new business opportunities.
9. In-depth reporting dashboards
Our experts will present you with in-depth reporting dashboards to help add insights to your use and identify trends. This goes beyond the high level report to which you have access in the Google Cloud Console.
10. Development of your service and applications
Ancoris is at heart a services and solutions company with many referenceable case studies on project and application build work that we have done with our clients. We are not simply a reseller, but an application developer on Google Cloud. Our business transformation practice has helped our customers re-imagine some of their processes to improve business performance and customer engagement.
Working with a Google Maps Premier Partner
A Google Cloud Partner like Ancoris can help you apply the power of Google Maps to solve current business challenges and develop new digital models using location-based services.
We’re not only a Google Maps Premier Partner but have achieved Google’s Location-Based Services Partner Specialisation. This means we’ve demonstrated both technical proficiency and proven success in building and managing applications using the best of Google Maps Platform and Google Cloud Platform in both web and mobile environments.
If you’d like to find out more about how we can help you, why not take a look at some of our customer success stories or talk to the experts in our Google Maps team.
Edited January 2021
First published on January 2018