GIS and Bi or a Location-Based Business Intelligence Solution for Higher Education Management

Historically speaking, BI and GIS have followed different demands as development and also as implementation. But today, when a customer requests integrated applications expanding throughout the organization, BI and GIS application must work together. In order to facilitate this, standards and other ways of data interaction – desktop integration, server integration, web services – were adopted by various IT providers and client organizations. After finding out what it is that spatial information brings to business, we must speak about the Location-Based Business Intelligence. This paper is meant to put this integration issue into the specific context of the Higher Education Management