Call for Participation to GeoBI initiative, the open community making open source Location Intelligence adoption pervasive

Our goal

Create an open community to make the Location Intelligence adoption pervasive.

Who we are

GeoBI initiative is a joint effort of companies, organizations, projects’ communities and individuals set up to:

• improve the coordination work in the Location Intelligence area
• disseminate BI knowledge in the GIS world and vice-versa
• promote the integration between BI and Geographical Systems
• strengthen connections among members and support new business opportunities
• create a research network focused on Location Intelligence
• bring research results into innovative enterprise-level applications.

The Initiative members are: Engineering Group (founding member), Inova (founding member), Camptocamp, Spatialytics, University of Milan, Altic, Ingres, individual members.

Find out more information on all the Initiative activities:

• check out our website
• follow us on Twitter
• subscribe to our group on Linked-in
• read our Wiki and Blogs.

Join us!

Membership is open to everyone (company, organization, individuals) who share the initiative vision and agrees on the initiative Manifesto.

GeoBI initiative focuses on open source software and open standards as feasible tools to reach its goals respecting the initiative key principles. It doesn’t mean that only open source companies or actors can take part in the initiative. All companies and actors, involved in the Location Intelligence domain and basing their products on open source software and/or open standards, are more than welcome.

New members must:

• agree on the contents of the initiative charter and act according to its rules
• commit themselves to work on one or more specific working topics of the initiative.

Check out our website for the membership request procedure! Name of members as well as their "intent declaration" are published on the initiative website.

Why join the GeoBI initiative

The GeoBI Initiative offers a number of benefits to the participants:

• the chance to drive the growth of their open solutions in a common direction achieving a great worth
• the involvement in research activities driving innovation
• a market opportunity
• the chance to enlarge business opportunities, such as consultancy and services.

Download the Brochure of the Call for Participation here!