Spatialytics.org promotes Open Source Geospatial Business Intelligence (Geo-BI). The projects available on Spatialytics.org are Free and Open Source. The projects available here on Spatialytics.org are :

• GeoKettle
• GeoMondrian
• SOLAPLayers

Open Source from Open Source

In an Open Source spirit and a certain way of making progress in the software industry, the Open Source projects of Spatialytics.org themselves rely and benefit from pioneers projects on the market.

In the BI (Business Intelligence) area, the Open Source ETL tool Kettle and the OLAP Server Mondrian from Pentaho are key to GeoKettle and GeoMondrian.

On the Geospatial side of the projects, GeoMondrian relies on PostGIS (a spatial data cartridge for PostgreSQL) playing the role of the Data warehouse. SOLAPLayers makes the best of OpenLayers for the end-user interface. Both Open Source projects (PostGIS and OpenLayers) are under the unbrella of the OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation).

Toward commercial support and solutions

A new company called Spatialytics Solutions Inc. (Spatialytics or  Spatialytics.com) has been formed in August 2009 to put a commercial spin to those innovations (GeoKettle, GeoMondrian and SOLAPLayers) and push further Geo-BI (GEO in BI and BI in GEO) in the market. Dr. Thierry Badard, at the roots of Spatialytics.org projects, is the co-founder of Spatialytics and assume the role of Chief Technological Officer (CTO).

Origins

Those projects (GeoKettle, GeoMondrian and SOLAPLayers) origin from Laval University in Quebec City (Canada), by the research and work done by the GeoSOA Research Team, led by Dr. Thierry Badard, assistant Professor at the “Département des sciences géomatiques“, part of the “Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique” (in French only).

You and the Geo-BI community

If you are interested in the academic side of the work done by the GeoSOA Research Team at Laval University, you will find Dr. Thierry Badard contact info on this page.

Feel free to download and try one or more of the tools and software available here at Spatailytics.org. If you have questions for the community, don’t hesitate to interact with its members.

If you are interested in the commercial side and/or are looking for solutions in Geo-BI to be implement in your work environment, contact Spatialytics Solutions Inc. (Spatialytics.com) or one of its partners.

Note :

Spatialytics, Spatialytics.com or Spatialytics Solutions Inc.  (orange sphere logo) are the possible denominations of the company “Spatialytics Solutions Inc.”

Spatialytics.org (green sphere logo) is simply a Website hosting information on the three Open Source Geo-BI projects that are GeoKettle, GeoMondrian and SOLAPLayers. Spatialytics.org is not a legal entity. Spatialytics.org is the place to gather and inform the “community” trying, using, developing and supporting those Open Source projects. Spatialytics.org is the Geo-BI Community Website.