Creating Real World Geographic Business Intelligence Solutions

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Creating Real World Geographic Business
Intelligence Solutions

• Bob Hazelton
• Information Builders
• April/2006

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Choosing a Framework

• Build vs. Buy
• Build
• Many components, connections, databases
• Longer time to market
• Buy
• Full Enterprise Integration
• Well defined framework
• Easy to use tools

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Why Geographic Business Intelligence?

• Five reasons to implement
• Unique analysis of business problems
• Enterprise level integration
• Visually drive business processes
• Real time rendering of events
• Optimal presentation of information

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Why Geographic Business Intelligence?

• Toggling between map and report
• Clearly identifies patterns
• Allows the analyst to zoom in on them
• Isolates problems for further analysis
• Tests hypotheses in an iterative process
• Presents solutions in a variety of outputs

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Example Food Stamp Fraud

• Goals
• Reduce the opportunity to commit fraud
• Improve investigative process
• Centralize information access
• ROI
• Reduced time for investigation
• Increased accuracy of information
• 10 reduction of fraud

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Example Western Cape Education Dept.

• Goals
• Reduce drop-out rate
• Improve services to all schools
• Control contractor expenditures
• ROI
• Problem areas identified
• Intervention programs in place
• Monitoring results via GBIS

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Example Large American Manufacturer

• Goals
• Manage supply chain
• Identify bottlenecks
• Anticipate and mitigate interruptions
• ROI
• Reaction time reduced to minutes, from weeks
• Improved assignment of external shippers
• Reduced JIT lag

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Example Richmond, VA Police Dept.

• Goals
• Better distribution of finite resources
• Predictive Analytics to look ahead
• Reduced occurrence of crime
• ROI
• Resource distribution by prediction 70
  reduction on New Years Eve40 reduction on July
  4th

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Example Union Pacific Rail Road

• Goals
• Enhance management of 87,000 cars
• Reduce late arrivals
• Improve customer satisfaction
• ROI
• Addition of GBIS, seamless
• Architecture bottleneck identified
• Hard numbers still to be collected

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Creating Real World Geographic Business
Intelligence Solutions Conclusion

• A very powerful and easy to understand
  alternative to reports and charts
• With the right tools, GBIS is easy to implement
• ROI not always a direct financial impact

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Creating Real World Geographic Business
Intelligence Solutions

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