Pitney Bowes MapInfo, a location intelligence provider, hasannounced an alliance with Exclusive Analysis, a strategicintelligence company that forecasts violent and political riskworldwide. Together the companies provide insurers with HYPERLINK"http://goto.mapinfo.com/TR/" TerrorRisk, a terrorism riskassessment model and data set. TerrorRisk utilizes fact-based,location-specific metrics developed by Exclusive Analysis to scorethe propensity and likely severity of violent and political riskson more than 3,700 global points of interest. Armed with thisinsight and location intelligence technology, insurers and riskmanagers are able to make underwriting, rating, coverage, and riskselection decisions.

The global TerrorRisk database offers insurers new analysis andinsight into geographic terror risk exposures that can be evaluatedon a building-by-building basis, across target types or by desiredpolitical or geographical boundaries--such as city, country, orpostal code. TerrorRisk contains global intelligence aboutthousands of specific terror risk target locations insurers can usefor terrorism exposure location analytics, portfolio riskmanagement, risk proximity analysis, and street-level terrorismrisk assessment.

"Location is one of the most critical elements in assessingrisk, and aligning with Exclusive Analysis enables us to provideinsurance companies with an additional trusted analysis solution tohelp determine the probability and severity of losses. Potentialterrorist attacks have become an increasingly important risk factorfor our clients and the global insurance industry," says CraigBedell, director of global insurance for Pitney Bowes MapInfo."TerrorRisk adds another critical data set to our rapidly growingportfolio of location intelligence solutions. Risk managers fromfinancial institutions, manufacturers, and global retailers areinterested in utilizing TerrorRisk as an attribute of theirenterprise risk management programs."