Tuesday 24 November 2009

OGC and GeoBI Initiative


The OGC has identified Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) as a major focus area for OGC standards related activities and is preparing a White Paper about the main issues: Sptail-ETL, Spatial-OLAP and Spatial-Report (GeoDashboard).

The White Paper will describe the value, methods and technology for applying geospatial interoperability standards to business intelligence technology and applications (such as SpagoBI, PentahoBI, etc..).
OGC aims to increase the interoperability of BI software products that can enable the collection, aggregation, analysis, distribution, and display of more relevant key performance indicators (KPI) using OGC standards and cartographic interfaces.

The OGC is now undertaking an analysis of how the capability of BI tools - such as Dashboards, reporting, On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Data Mining - can be increased through access to spatial information and processing based upon open standards from OGC and other possible new standards.


The White Paper will be the first step in developing an OGC emphasis in GeoBI!


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