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. ..).

I will be in Chicago this week as a participant to one of the panels in the agenda of « Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence USA 2011 », a first edition in this LI series by TheWhereBusiness. This article, « Building Bridges with Location Intelligence », by Victor Harrison and published July 26 2010 in the LBx Journal and conversations with its Editor Natasha Leger may have something to do with the invitation… the LBx Journal is the Global Media partner of « Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence USA 2011 »…

The article is finally out! My partner Dr. Thierry Badard prepared an article for the magazine Geospatial Today and you can find it on page 34 (pp. 34 to 37) of the November issue (#24, 11-2010). The title is “Developing geospatial business intelligence solutions” and briefly covers 1. BI concepts, 2. Merging geospatial and BI technologies (touches GIS, classical BI tools and GeoBI) and 3. presents the Open Source GeoBI projects you can find on Spatialytics.ORG. A perfect GeoBI solution can be developed by integrating the spatial component and its functionalities into each component of business intelligence infrastructure. (T. Badard) You can have access the article online here (powered by PRESSMART, Adobe Flash Player 8+ Required).

This first edition of S2LQ (Salon du Logiciel Libre du Québec) will take place on 6 and 7 December in Quebec (Laval University). This event is organized by the APELL (Association Professionnelle des Entreprises en Logiciels Libres) and Spatialytics is a member of this association. The opening of the salon should be marked Monday, December 6 by a speech in French from Richard Stallman, who launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. The title of his presentation is: “The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, Free Software and Your Freedom.” The afternoon of Monday, featuring Nico Elema, the founding member of the Government Open Source Software Resource Center, which will deal with “Free/Open Source Software in government agencies worldwide.”

GeoBI initiative allows the integration between Geographical Information Systems and Business Intelligence software. Québec, Canada – June 10th, 2010 – Spatialytics, a software and solutions company for Genuine and Open Source Geospatial Business Intelligence, announces its participation in the GeoBI Initiative, a new international initiative focused on Geospatial Business Intelligence, available at www.geobi.org.