
CHAPTER 9
GeoBI Architecture Based on
Free Software: Experience and
Review
Elzbieta Malinowski
Introduction
Decision making is a process of establishing different alternatives and
choosing one that better suits the specifi c situation at hand, according to
users’ knowledge and available data. For many years, different systems
(with the name of Decision Support Systems, DSSs), were developed to assist
users at different levels of management. Currently, these systems form a
part of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions (Turban et al. 2010). BI requires
current and historical data as well as adequate tools and techniques that
allow users to perform differ ...