Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI): Overview and Geospatial Enablement

Session Type: 
Tech Session
Presenter(s): 
Mr Luc Vaillancourt, Spatialytics
Dr Thierry Badard, Spatialytics

Business Intelligence (BI) Technologies can integrate, compare and analyze large amounts of data from many different sources using tools, software and standards for data integration (ETL), data warehouse, OLAP server (Online Analytical Processing), the MDX query language (MultiDimentional eXpression), data mining, dashboards and reporting. Get an overview of the Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI) technologies like BIRT, JasperSoft, Pentaho and SpagoBI, who now have millions of users from several millions downloads and how you can integrate geospatial, mapping and thematic mapping using FOSS4G and FOSS4GeoBI.

Speaker Bio: 

Luc Vaillancourt is the CEO of Spatialytics, a company in the Business Intelligence and Geospatial, founded in 2009. Luc Vaillancourt founded BALIZ Inc. in 2007, now dedicated on publishing BALIZ-MEDIA.com, a French speaking online magazine covering the Geospatial industry. Luc Vaillancourt founded KOREM Inc. in 1993 and led the growth of this company until 2005.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Room: 
Tower Court C