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

• GeoKettle
• GeoMondrian

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, the Spatial ETL tool GeoKettle integrates and leverages the power of geospatial libraries such as of JTS, GeoTools, OGR, deegree, … The SOLAP Server GeoMondrian relies and collaborates with the Spatial RDBMS PostGIS (a spatial data cartridge for PostgreSQL) playing the role of the Data warehouse. Many of those Open Source projects are under the umbrella 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 push further GeoBI (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

The GeoKettle  and GeoMondrian projects have been initiated Laval University in Quebec City (Canada), by the research and work done between 2006 and 2009 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). Since August 2009, the company Spatialytics (www.spatialytics.COM) have taken the lead in the development and push the projects on the BI and Geospatial markets.

You and the GeoBI 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.

Professional Services and Support

If you need professional support around these GeoBI Open Source products, Spatialytics offers its expertise through its “ProServices“. A network of certified partners is also taking place to help you. Visit our Partners page to discover them.

If you are interested in the commercial side and/or are looking for solutions in GeoBI 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 Open Source GeoBI projects (GeoKettle, GeoMondrian, …). 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 GeoBI Community Website.

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