Quebec City (Canada), July 21st – Spatialytics presents the new version 2.0 of GeoKettle, the Open Source Spatial ETL now available to download (RC1) for free via www.spatialytics.org. GeoKettle (www.geokettle.org) is an incredible tool to clarify, automate, accelerate, standardize and secure all processes requiring steps and jobs to extract, process and load alphanumeric as well as geometric data.

After FOSS4G 2010 in Barcelona, ​​it’s the turn of the city of Denver, Co., to host for 2011 the FOSS4G conference (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial), the international event of OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Consortium). Activities will take place the week of September 12 to 16. Spatialytics is pleased to support the event through a sponsorship as did many organizations and companies, local and international, small and large … more or less involved in the OSGeo and its various projects … but certainly at least “users and beneficiaries. “ 

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.