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).

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.

Spatialytics is sponsoring FOSS4G 2010, the international conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial  in Barcelona, September 6 to 9 2010. ” The spatial industry is undergoing rapid innovations and the open source spatial community is one of the forces driving the change. The FOSS4G conference is more than a melting pot of great ideas it is a catalyst and opportunity to unite behind the many successful geospatial products, standards and protocols. ” FOSS4G 2010 Organizing Committee.