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Interesting article in Wired recently published on their website featuring how to use a decision tree for health. There is a simple example of a decision tree where you can answer questions about your own health, leading to a recommendation of further information to read. Further into the article (...more here)

We are getting a lot of feedback saying users are creating Mapit Scripts for troubleshooting and deploying them on handheld terminals for remote troubleshooting. Industries we are aware of include water, traffic signals, power lines companies - and we would love to hear of more. With Mapit Designer the troubleshooting script is (...more here)

We have had questions from potential users asking about server based licenses or multi-user licenses. Currently Mapit Designer is a stand alone product for MS Windows personal computers. When a script has been developed it can be published as an html file on the web or your intranet. Our licensing model if (...more here)

One of the main uses for Mapit is in helping with rapid decision making.  This could be when the user is operating out of their usual experience.  For example night desk staff answering the phone at a hospital, new or temporary staff in a new role.  Or for the case (...more here)

We are often asked how many licenses are needed for an organisation to run Mapit Designer. Mapit Designer is sold on a "one license per user PC" basis. In other words if you want to use this great tool to develop decision trees, process maps, product selectors and so on - (...more here)

When you develop a page in Mapit Designer, the standard procedure is to create the Page, ask a Question - maybe offer some assistance in the form of Notes - and the suggest some Answers to the Question. Mapit allows three different kinds of answers to be prescribed - Radio Buttons, (...more here)

The concept of having business users create their own applications is powerful and potentially off-putting at the same time. Sometimes it is best not to tell the user that they are, in effect, programming. MS Excel is the perfect example of a palette on which very powerful applications are created by (...more here)

When people say Decision Tree Software they can be talking about a whole range of products - some of them highly complex and very expensive. Mapit Designer is described as a simple decision tree tool but what is a decision tree? Wikipedia describe a Decision Tree as "a decision support (...more here)

Media Release Mapit Designer turns complexity into simplicity The Mapit Designer 3.0 application transforms complex business information into simple decision trees to enable online troubleshooting, product selection, compliance and surveys. Christchurch, New Zealand, 30 June – Mapit Designer 3.0, a software tool that allows users to easily build decision trees and process maps (...more here)

One of our more commonly asked questions is "What is the capacity of the software? Or how many layers of questions can you have?" The easiest answer is "a lot." There is no predefined capacity but the person building (...more here)