Case Study: DMTI Spatial achieves faster, scalable real-time location intelligence with Microsoft Azure

Location Intelligence Company Reaps the Rewards of the Microsoft Cloud

DMTI Spatial is Canada’s market leader in location-based data, serving banks, mortgage insurers and government clients with precision data covering 98.5% of Canadian households and businesses. Managing massive, constantly changing datasets created challenges around uptime, security, scalability, fast access to recent data, and data residency—limitations made scaling slow and physical data delivery impractical for real-time use.

By moving to the Microsoft Cloud (Azure), DMTI now hosts its infrastructure in the cloud, enabling real-time streaming via simple APIs, rapid elastic scaling, built-in monitoring, and lower operational overhead. The shift delivered measurable benefits: cost savings from migrating customer environments to Azure, faster performance and compliance with new Canadian datacenters, daily feature improvements from Azure, and an award-winning solution for Intact Financial that cut underwriting processing time by 15%.

DMTI Spatial

Mark Lennox

Director of Engineering and Technology