® Increasing the value of Business Intelligence using Geospatial Standards George Percivall, Chief Architect and Executive Director of the OGC Interoperability Program, OGC © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium Location Intelligence for Enterprise, June 2012

Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) Business Intelligence and location –Data Warehouses, Business Analytics, Dashboards, Scorecards. –Typically location treated as a dumb attribute (coded sales zones as opposed to sales zones as geographic boundaries). –BI customers looking to derive business benefit from location data; data discovery and unstructured data. OGC development of GeoBI –Applying geospatial interoperability standards to BI technology through the addition of location as an intelligent dimension. –Use OGC standards in BI for improved decision making –Broader use of products that implement OGC standards © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium2

© 2011, Open Geospatial Consortium 3 OGC At A Glance A non-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Founded in members and growing 35 implementation standards Hundreds of product implementations in the market Broad user community implementation worldwide Alliances and collaborative activities with ISO and many other SDO’s

Changing Markets for Location Information Copyright © 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., Figure published in Imaging Notes, Fall

Location Information in all stages of BI ETL –Words with geo meaning e.g., Paris –Explicit coordinates, e.g., latitude-longitude OLAP/OLTP –Spatial analysis based on geometric relations Reporting –Tabular reports –Visualization, e.g, maps. © 2012 Open Geospatial Consortium5 Standards critical at each stage for Interoperability Extracting maximum value

Location in ETL Currently processing of location at ETL stage is difficult Standards allow for more accurate ingest –Addresses and Points of Interest (PoIs) –Administrative divisions Increasing support for native spatial data storage in BI databases Develop support of the spatial component with standards from the (geo)statistical domain (NetCDF, SDMX, …) Access to ever growing number of sources of GeoInfo –OGC Web Service Standards for interoperable ETL inputs –OGC GML Simple Feature Access Encoding Standard

Location in OLAP/OLTP GeoBI’s worth determined by spatial analytics Spatial data required for spatial processing –Points, lines, polygons OGC Standards –SQL Simple Features –Web Processing Service Develop Geo-MDX with spatial extensions

Spatial OLAP SOLAP “platform for spatio-temporal analysis of multidimensional data with aggregation of cartographic as well as tabulardisplays.” – Accessible via OGC WPS

Location in Reporting Traditional BI presents results in reports, or dashboards. GeoBI adds maps to this mix. –“decision support services” providing “situational awareness”. –Rich tradition of visualization analysis through maps. OGC established standards for cartographic maps –OGC Web Map Service –OGC KML Encoding Standard –OGC Styled Layer Descriptor and Symbology Encoding (SLD) Further actions –Adapt SLD for complex thematic mapping based on OLTP and OLAP data structures –Develop symbol sets and best practices for BI-oriented maps

OGC White Paper on GeoBI Authors –Oracle –Spatialytics –1Spatial –OGC staff

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Map views in Oracle BI Suite

For Details on OGC Standards… OGC Standards –Freely available – OGC Reference Model (ORM) –Overview of OGC Standards Baseline –Resource for defining architectures for specific applications – George Percivall, gpercivall at opengeospatial.orggpercivall at opengeospatial.org Copyright © 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.