The document discusses geospatial business intelligence (Geo-BI). It defines BI as using data analysis to understand business operations and support decision making. Geo-BI adds spatial analysis and maps to allow exploration of spatial relationships in data. About 80% of corporate data has a spatial component, and representing some phenomena on maps can better aid interpretation and decisions. The document introduces open source Geo-BI software from Spatialytics, including Pentaho tools for ETL, OLAP, and reporting integrated with geospatial capabilities.

1. Open Source
Geospatial Business Intelligence
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(Geo-BI)
By Dr. Thierry Badard, CTO
CLLAP 2009, Quebec City Canada – November 5th, 2009
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2. What is Business Intelligence ( )
g (BI)?
• As you probably know :
– Business Intelligence applications are usually
used to better understand historical, current and
future aspects of business operations in a
company.
– The applications typically offer ways to mine
database- and spreadsheet-centric data, and
produce graphical table-based and other types of
graphical, table based
analytics regarding business operations.
– They support the decision process and allow to
take more informed decision!
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4. Business Intelligence applications
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• Rely on an architecture with complex components
and applications:
– ETL tools & data warehousing g
– On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) servers and clients
– Reporting tools & dashboards
– Data mining
DATA BI TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE
SOURCES
MDX
ETL End‐User Applications
BDMS flat files
Data
Warehouse (OLAP)
sensors
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5. What is Geospatial BI?
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• Geospatial BI adds maps and spatial analysis !
• Why ?
– Because … “About eighty percent of all data stored in
corporate databases has a spatial component” [Franklin 1992]
– Enable the exploration of spatial relations between data
• To take into account all aspects of data
• And then make more informed decisions
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Some phenomena can only b observed and i t
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representing them on a map!
• Spatial distribution
distribution,
• Spatiotemporal evolution,
• etc.
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7. Pentaho
• Kettle : ETL / Data Integration
• Mondrian : OLAP Server
• End-User Applications:
– Pentaho Reporting
– CDF (Community Dashboard Framework)
– Weka for Data Mining
DATA
SOURCES MDX
ETL End‐User Applications
E d U A li i
flat files
Data
BDMS
Warehouse (
(OLAP)
)
sensors
CDF
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8. Based on Pentaho components ...
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provides a complete open
source Geo-BI software stack:
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9. Spatialytics.com
• :
─ leads and sponsors all of its core open source
Geo-BI projects, available at
─ provides services :
•professional support
•training
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•consulting
•project development
•…
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10. QUESTIONS ?
Thank you and I am available for demos!
Contact info:
Luc Vaillancourt, Spatialytics CEO lvaillancourt@spatialytics.com @l_vaillancourt
Thierry Badard Spatialytics CTO
Badard, tbadard@spatialytics.com
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@tb d d
Spatialytics.COM @spatialytics
WWW
Spatialytics.ORG
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