Map Intelligence - the spatial hub from Integeo

Over 80% of business data is likely to relate to geographic location. Location-enabled decision-making tools reveal so much more because complex data is often poorly represented when only expressed in charts or tables. Integeo's Map Intelligence is an award winning and patented product uniquely offering ‘out-of-the-box’ a large range of spatial visualization and analytical functionality to exposes locations and spatial relationships.

Using Map Intelligence Forge is able to deliver dynamic map-enabled applications that enable better and more agile decision making by domain experts who can remain focused on solving “business” problems and not the enabling technology. A tool is only useful if it’s usable and Map Intelligence hides the inherent complexity of the underlying technologies by eliminating the need for expertise in programming or deep GIS application skills.

Map Intelligence currently has turnkey Clients for all the major BI vendors – Cognos (IBM), Business Objects (SAP), Hyperion (Oracle), MicroStrategy and Excel (Microsoft) - and has turnkey Map Intelligence Servers for the major GIS vendors – ESRI and Pitney Bowes MapInfo.

Map Intelligence is not limited to these products and Integeo offers an embedded reporting tool that utilises the open-source Business Intelligence Report Tool (BIRT) from the Eclipse Foundation and Actuate. Similarly they offer a turnkey Map Intelligence Server utilizing the open source, OGC compliant map server GeoServer. Because the Map Intelligence Server is OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) compliant, Map Intelligence can utilize any OGC compliant map server. Thus Google Earth can be used for 3D visualization and Google Maps as a web service to display images and data sourced from Google.

Forge can provide a complete bundled solution as a one-stop shop for your spatial analysis needs. We can provide Map Intelligence as a ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) with a remotely hosted Map Intelligence spatial hub automatically linking to your BI environment.

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Hyperion (Oracle) Business Intelligence

Forge was a long term Partner with Brio Technology until Hyperion acquired Brio in November 2003. In July 2004 Hyperion acquired Forge's Business Intelligence company, QIQ Solutions with its Brio based dashboard development and report life-cycle management product suite. Forge retained the QIQ spatial components from that sale and subsequently launched a new company Integeo (Integrated Geography) to continue development and commercialization of Map Intelligence. Forge, with Integeo, continued its close alliance with Hyperion until Oracle acquired Hyperion in March 2007.

Forge maintains a special focus on delivering solutions involving Map Intelligence which now has turnkey options for all the major BI vendors and also open source reporting using BIRT. As part of Integeo's channel Forge sells Oracle BI software.