An open source and web based framework for geographic and multidimensional processing
Joel da Silva, Valéria Cesário Times, Ana Carolina Salgado · 2006
The development of Business Intelligence (BI) systems has been the destination of high investments made by several enterprises. The motivation is because an efficient decision support environment brings them several business world advantages, mainly if it provides integrated functionalities for the geographical and/or multidimensional processing. The intended goal is to provide users with a system capable of processing both geographic and multidimensional data in a seamless way, by abstracting the complexity of separately querying and analyzing these data in a decision making process. However, this integration may not be fully achieved yet or may be built using proprietary technologies. This paper presents an open source and web based framework for geographic and multidimensional decision support. Our approach uses a geographical data warehouse, a metadata source, a query language and a geographical and multidimensional engine for processing queries sent by a web based client application.