What is PC*Miler Connect?
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PC*MILER Connect is a legacy, on premise solution that offers transportation professionals and software developers access to PC*Miler features from other applications. Client applications are able to retrieve PC*Miler distances, driving times, state-by-state mileage breakdowns, and detailed driving instructions. (For new implementations, Trimble offers PC*Miler Web, and Web Services.)
The PC*Miler Connect Dynamic Link Library (DLL) is designed to fulfill all the routing and mileage reporting needs of custom truck and shipper application development. Features include:
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The PC*MILER Database: Our proprietary PC*Miler North American database is the industry standard for point-to-point mileage. All U.S. ZIP codes are included, and add-on modules are available for Canadian Postal Codes and SPLCs. Internationally, the PC*Miler Worldwide database includes over 1 million named locations and over 6.6 million kilometers of truck-specific road segments. PC*Miler Worldwide generates exact U.S. Department of Defense distances for freight and household goods billing.
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Support for Practical, Shortest, State + National Network, Toll Discouraged, and Air routing. Connect gives users these five basic route types to choose from, plus various route type combinations and options.
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Standard report formats. You can insert PC*Miler Connect reports as tab delimited text directly into your applications. These reports include the detailed driving instructions, state-by-state distance breakdowns, and summary distance reports. These reports are the same ones you use in PC*Miler.
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Direct accessibility from other applications. All these features are accessible from any development environment capable of calling a DLL. In addition, most features are accessible from Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel.
Licensing
The PC*Miler Connect installation increases your licenses of the PC*Miler database to two concurrent accesses. This means that you can run a copy of PC*Miler or PC*Miler Worldwide together with one PC*Miler Connect client application at the same time. Within each client application, the PC*Miler Connect allows up to eight open routes at a time.
You can connect more client applications by purchasing additional database licenses. If you plan to connect many users to a network version of the PC*Miler database, we have attractive pricing for LAN versions.