August: Useful - user friendly - flexible & affordable

For any type and size of company involved in maritime business!

The trees are already turning yellow here in Oslo, but we do really look forward to the autumn.

During the summer, we’ve we adjusted the business model for both ShipAtlas® and ShipIntel® to be able to offer a suite of subscription matching the different needs of the users without increasing the prices. So you can start ShipAtlas® for free, and upgrade to standard or Premium at the same price as you always could do, and then if you are involve din maritime business you can start with ShipIntel® Essentials and if you are a shipbroker, or working in chartering you can add ShipIntel® Pre-Fix to your Essential® subscription.

We have also been welcomed to the Microsoft Azure Market Place as a transactible software meaning that you can add ShipIntel® subscription to your Microsoft Entra Connect V2 access control system. We have reached some important milestones this summer.

Let’s dive into the August’s happenings  ⬇️

⛴️ ShipAtlas®

In August, we saw a 55 % increase in new registered users compared to July, and almost every new registered users are organic! Even more impressively; sales have increased by 79 % compared to the same month last year. Thank you so much to all of you signing up to ShipAtlas®.

We made the subscriptions simpler and we did not increase the prices 😎 If you are looking for a ship tracker, you should check out ShipAtlas® - it is all about ship. Any type of ship, with a Class A sender and a valid MMSI number, and we offer live global coverage.

🚢 ShipIntel®

Essentials for any type of company involved in maritime business

If you are involved in maritime business you should sign up for a demo so we can demo ShipIntel® Essential for you.

Pre-Fix for shipbrokers, cargo and ship operators

If you are a shipbroker or working in chartering, you should sign up for a demo of ShipIntel® Pre-Fix. During the summer we moved away from the modules and instead made subscriptions packages so you can build the software you want.

Integrate ShipIntel in your Microsoft Azure and 365 subscriptions

If you are using Microsoft 365 and support Microsoft Entra Connect V2 access control system, you can integrate the ShipIntel's subscriptions to your Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

All subscriptions are offered at very competitive prices, check it out yourselves after you have signed up for a demo on our web site: ShipIntel® by Maritime Optima!

And maybe the best testimonials are when customers are recurring their existing subscriptions 🎉 For us it is a milestone when a new customer decide to renew their subscription when they are up for renewal.

Let us show you what ShipIntel can do for you! Book a demo here.

⚭ Microsoft integration

“We are proud and grateful to be a part of the Microsoft Programs helping ShipIntel® to become successful. We have had the pleasure of working with the skilled and experienced Microsoft organization from day one, helping us building a global software” says our Founder and CEO of Maritime Optima, Kristin Omholt-Jensen.

The ShipIntel integrations for Outlook and Teams are developed together with Microsoft. These integrations offer companies saving time, reducing routine work and enabling them have more time making better qualified commercial decisions.

“By being approved by Microsoft to offer the ShipIntel® product portfolio on the Azure Marketplace, we are able to reach potential customers who are using Microsoft 365 products with our Microsoft Teams and Outlook add-ins," says Kristin.

“We are pleased to welcome ShipIntel® by Maritime Optima to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace,” says Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform.

To those of you who believe you need an email parsing add in because Outlook can't handle 30 000 shipping emails a week:

ShipIntel® Pre-Fix integrated in Outlook is primarily intended for shipowners’ chartering departments, ship operators, traders, importers and exporters and shipbrokers; all businesses involved in commercial shipping. Using ShipIntel® Pre-fix, the companies are saving hours every day with powerful AI driven email parsing and cargo handling directly integrated with powerful voyage calculations and what-if simulations.

No need for "email parsing add ins" anymore! Connect Outlook to ShipIntel and track your cargoes from they arrive in your inbox and until someone in your team has done the pre-voyage calculations, negotiated and fixed the cargo / vessel.

Call us +47 22 12 98 00 so we can show you what Microsoft and ShipIntel can do for you!

🌱 Maritime Optima is growing internationally

We are thrilled to share some exciting news with you! Over the past six years, Maritime Optima has grown out of Oslo, Norway, where we started our company, and we are proud to announce that our products are now used by more than 400,000 users worldwide.

As we continue to grow, we are excited to announce a significant expansion in our leadership team.

On November 1st, we will officially welcoming the new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), a seasoned maritime SaaS professional with over 17 years of senior experience from leading maritime software companies. Based in Greece he will help us grow the ShipIntel sales, establish a strong local presence in Greece, a key maritime hub, and spearhead the operations of our new European HQ in the heart of Greek Shipping at Akti Miaouli, Piraeus.

Working closely with our founder and CEO, Kristin Omholt-Jensen, he will also play a pivotal role in shaping our global commercial strategy and optimizing our sales efforts in collaboration with our international team.

This expansion marks a significant milestone for Maritime Optima, and we are also continuing our international expansion with an office in Singapore soon 🫢

⁉️FAQ

❓Why did you remove so many free features from the ShipAtlas free subscription?

Basically because of these reasons;

1 - We noticed we gave away too many features for free compared to our competitors.

2- We did not want to increase the prices for the paid subscription since we want to offer affordable and user-friendly software.

3- We did not want to include ads in the ShipAtlas free subscription to earn revenues

4- We had to align the ShipAtlas subscriptions with the ShipIntel Essential subscription

❓Do you only have customers in Norway?

No we don't, we have customers from approx 190 different countries.

❓Will I be refunded for my ShipAtlas paid subscription if the company I am working for sign up for a ShipIntel Essential subscription?

Yes you will.

❓Is it true that you offer your customers to do live queries in your public AIS database, like a live position lists ? create lists and be notified about changes in these lists?

Yes it is, such live search functionalities are very expensive and therefore they have mostly been available for the larger enterprises, but in the very affordable ShipIntel Essential subscription, the customer can do live search whenever they want.

❓I am acting as an advisor for many companies, can be become a reseller of ShipIntel?

Yeah, if you want to discuss resale with us, please reach out to us

❓Do you offer public APIs so I can connect different softwares?

We are a very small team and we have decided to spend our time on developing new features based on user feedback rather than maintaining different public APIs for different type of customers, but later down the road we will offer public APIs.

❓Can I download AIS data from ShipIntel?

So far we have not offered any options to download historical AIS, but for customer using Microsoft products you will offer different options for data analyis.

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