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Dedan Kimathi University of Technology

Department of Geomatics and Geospatial Information Science
Bachelor of Science in Geomatic Engineering and Geospatial Information Systems
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Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Information Science

UNIT CODE: GGI 4202 Spatial Business Intelligence

Objectives
Provide students with a good understanding of Spatial Business Intelligence.

Course Expectations
At the end of this unit, the students should be able to:
• Understand the basic concepts and theories of GIScience and trends of GIS technologies
• Create and manage spatially-enabled business data.
• Use appropriate GIS analysis functions to visualize and analyze business-related data
• Model business processes using GIS’ advanced analytical methods
• Design and implement spatially enabled business intelligence applications

Course Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Definition of terms
3. Overview of Spatial Business Intelligence:
4. Concepts and theories of Spatial Business Intelligence
 Capabilities of technology in conducting spatial business analysis
 Standards, Infrastructure and meta-data
 Spatial modeling and visualization
5. GIS and location-aware technologies
6. Internet of Things (IOT)
7. Big Data visualization techniques
8. Spatial Data Integration
 From enterprise databases and data warehouses to spatial data warehouses.
 Spatially enabling enterprise data.
 Integrating external geospatial market data.
9. Spatial Data Maintenance
10. Map servers (APIs, REST interfaces, RIA toolkits, WMS and WFS).
11. Thematic mapping and spatial analysis,
 Case Studies

Course Text Books

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1. Turban, E., King, D., Sharda, R., & Delen, D. (2013). Business intelligence: a managerial
perspective on analytics. Prentice Hall, New York.

2. Loshin, D. (2012). Business intelligence: the savvy manager's guide. Newnes.

3. Sauter, V. L. (2014). Decision support systems for business intelligence. John Wiley & Sons.

4. Minelli, M., Chambers, M., & Dhiraj, A. (2012). Big data, big analytics: emerging business
intelligence and analytic trends for today's businesses. John Wiley & Sons.

Course Journals
1. Journal of Geospatial Systems Information

2. International Journal of Spatial Sciences

Reference Text Books

1. Church, R.L. & Murray, A.T. (2009) Business Site Selection, Location Analysis, and GIS.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey.

2. Douglas, B. (2008) Achieving Business Success with GIS. John Wiley & Sons., West Sussex,
England.

3. Pick, J. B. (2008) Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

4. Pick, J. B. (2005) Geographic Information Systems In Business, Idea Group Publishing,

Hershey, USA. (eBook)

5. Cliquet, G. (2006) Geomarketing: Methods and Strategies in Spatial Marketing, iSTE

Publisher, London, UK.

Reference Journals
1. Journal of Geosciences