Lily: A Geo-Enhanced Library for Location IntelligenceData Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery

Location intelligence is a set of tools and techniques to in- tegrate a geographical dimension into BI platforms, aimed at enhancing their capability of better monitoring and interpreting business events. Though most commercial data warehouse tools have implemented spa- tial extensions to support GIS integration, the user experience with spa- tial data is still mostly limited to the visualization of maps labeled with numerical indicators. To overcome this limit we developed Lily, a geo- enhanced library that adds true location intelligence capabilities to ex- isting BI platforms. Lily provides end-users with a highly-interactive in- terface that seamlessly achieves a bidirectional integration between the BI and the geospatial worlds, so as to enable advanced analytical fea- tures that truly take into account the spatial dimension. In this paper we describe Lily from a functional and architectural point of view, and show an example where Lily is coupled with the Oracle Suite to be used for location intelligence in the eld of telecommunications.