Gartner have highlighted mashups as a growth area for 2009 and predict that "by 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups" in the Five Predictions report. I have been looking at harnessing the power of mixing geographic visualisation techniques with Business Intelligence. Below is a video of a mashup I put together using MOSS, PerformancePoint, Windows Live Earth and Google Earth (or you can access the video directly from here):
| Time |
Interest point |
| 00:00 |
MOSS Report Centre |
| 00:22 |
Oil and Gas Report |
| 00:48 |
Report and Windows Live Earth |
| 03:18 |
Google Earth |
This means that you can cluster multiple points for the same location together, i.e. we can have a size weighting as well as using the visual icon to display information- I'm thinking heat maps on maps! Drop me a line if you are interested to see how this was done.
Howard has also been working on an Open Source project called StyleCop for reSharper which ensures QA on code and much more, check it out
here.
As always feedback would be welcome,
John
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