• improve the coordination work in the Location Intelligence area
• promote the integration between Business Intelligence & GIS systems
• strengthen connections among members and support new business opportunities
• create a research network to bring its results into innovative enterprise-level applications.

• clear value proposition, creating new value through BI and GIS integration
• separation of concerns, integrating BI and GIS software, keeping them as decoupled as possible
• a constant growth, scaling up functionalities and costs incrementally
• keeping Total Cost of Ownership low, to facilitate Location Intelligence pervasive adoption.

• liven up and widen the initiative
• foster open standards adoption and new standards definition
• support the integration of a full stack of Location Intelligence tools
• create an open Location Intelligence knowledge base
• disseminate the initiative results
• contribute new software to the initiative stack projects
• set up a service network.

• improvements in user interfaces
• brand new family of spatial-enabled analytical engines
• real-time Location Intelligence
• open and shared standard adoption
• infrastructure and metadata allowing BI & GIS integration
• dissemination of BI & GIS integrated knowledge
• network of services supporting the Location Intelligence stack.

An initiative open to everyone!

• open to everyone sharing the initiative vision and subscribing the initiative manifesto
• a plain initiative charter
• focus on open source software and open standards as feasible tools to reach the initiative goals
• all members committed to work on the initiative working topics.

A joint effort by the initiative members

• including companies, organizations, communities and individuals
• involving many projects of the BI & GIS domains
• following transparent objectives & principles, acting through consistent activities
• supported by a defined and well-managed organization
• following trustworthy and transparent governance rules.

Many benefits!

• the chance to drive the growth of one's own solutions in a common direction achieving the best value
• the involvement into research activities driving innovation
• a market opportunity
• the chance to enlarge business opportunities, such as consultancy and services.