The 13th GSDI World Conference organized by the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (www.gsdi.org) is held this year in Quebec City, Canada, May 14-17. The precedent editions were in Singapore in 2010 and Rotterdam, The Netherlands in 2009. This year’s theme is « Spatially Enabling Government, Industry and Citizens ». GSDI 13 in Quebec City is also the occasion for other local geospatial organizations to hold events. This is the case of the Canadian Geomatics Conference 2012, the 14th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference and the 7th 3DGeoInfo Conference. Spatialytics, based in Quebec City, takes the occasion to exhibit at this International Event for the Geospatial Industry and showcase its : Spatial Data Integration tool Spatialytics ETL: « Generate quality Geospatial Information from multiple data sources to feed your GIS/LI/GeoBI System »; Geospatial Business Intelligence software stack Spatialytics SUITE: « Develop robust GeoBI Solutions to maximize your Geospatial and Business Intelligence Infrastructure ». Look for this Booth! Exhibition hours

Spatialytics is proud to sponsor the first FOSS4G-NA, April 10 to 12, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC. Spatialytics is involved in Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) via its work on the Spatial ETL GeoKettle (Community Edition) and Spatialytics ETL (Enterprise Edition) and its partnership with the OpenGeo for local (Québec) distribution of the OpenGeo Suite – Enterprise Edition.

You can find in the current issue of GeoConnexion / Geo: International (February 2012 – Volume 11, issue 2) an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) article signed by Michael Sanderson (Director of Strategy, 1Spatial) and Thierry Badard (CTO, Spatialytics) Co-Chairs of the OGC’s GeoBI Working Group : Business Intelligence needs location standards (.pdf in the OGC World Section) Extract : « Geospatial data stovepipes and walled gardens imposed by proprietary or community-specific interfaces and encodings limit the publishing, discovery, assessment, access and use of data that may be critical in important decisions. Open standards are the key to deriving maximum business benefit and return on investment from BI systems and from today’s burgeoning location data and location apps » The article also presents the newly created OGC Technical Committee Geospatial Business Intelligence Domain Working Group (GeoBI DWG). About Spatialytics and the GeoBI DWG Spatialytics is an active member of the OGC

Quebec, Canada, January 17, 2012 – Spatialytics, a software company in Spatial Data Integration (ETL) and GeoBI, is pleased to welcome Frederic Berger in his team as Director of Sales and Channel Management . Mr. Berger has nearly twenty years of experience in the commercialization of software solutions for the enterprise and the public sector. Mr. Berger spent specifically six years in supporting various organizations in the adoption of Enterprise Geospatial Solutions (Spatial DBMS and Web mapping) to complement and upgrade their technology infrastructure (CRM, ERP, remote monitoring, geo-marketing, call center. ..). The Spatialytics offering is unique in its ability to enhance Geospatial systems by integrating powerful BI concepts like analytics (OLAP multidimensional query language MDX) and visualization through the use of dashboards and reports. Conversely, Spatialytics GeoBI incorporates in conventional BI the ubiquitous relationship between the data and geography (address, city, address …), allowing spatial analysis and visualization of data through thematic mapping.

Technology Partner of Spatialytics: Jaspersoft Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed business intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Leveraging a commercial open source business model, Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. The BI suite includes pixel-perfect enterprise reporting, ad hoc query, dashboards, OLAP and in-memory analysis, and data integration. Jaspersoft is the only BI vendor that enables companies to adapt to the new, virtualized world by providing a complete spectrum of on-premises, multi-tenant SaaS and cloud-based deployment options for both embedded and standalone business intelligence. Unlike traditional BI vendors, Jaspersoft is built on a modern, lightweight, standards-based architecture and offers greater vendor independence thanks to its open source codebase. Unlike niche BI vendors, Jaspersoft represents a safe choice with tens of thousands of production deployments across a wide

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Spatialytics is a Bronze sponsor of Geomatics 2011, THE Conference of the Geospatial industry in Quebec, returning every two years, organized by the Montreal Chapter of the CIG (Canadian Institute of Geomatics). Look at Geomatics 2011 program and register here. Spatialytics in the program: Spatialytics have three (3) presentations (all in French) in the Program, all the 2nd day, Thursday the 13: Conference in French: Services web OGC et ETL spatial, une combinaison gagnante! By Thierry Badard, Day 2, Thursday at 8:30 AM – Room A About: Spatial ETL & Data Integration GeoKettle maximizing OGC Web Services like WMS, WMFS, CSW, SOS, … Conference in French: Maximiser l’usage et l’intégration des données ouvertes, des réseaux sociaux et des données de capteurs pour des décisions plus éclairées By Thierry Badard, Day 2, Thursday at 9:20 AM – Room C About: Spatial ETL & Data Integration GeoKettle playing with data and information coming from social networks API