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Geo-Business Intelligence and Spatial Data Warehousing: A Railway Company Case Study

2022; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-17439-1_10

1865-0937

Mario Tartaglia, Andrea Fiduccia,

Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence

The Italian Ferrovie dello Stato Group has adopted and continues its roadmap for the implementation of a Strategic Information Monitoring System (SIMS) aimed at supporting the strategic decision-making processes of the Holding Company FSI and the other FS Group companies and at "the collection, storing and processing of official Group data according to the Process of Supply and Management of Official Data of the FS Italiane Group". The purpose of the SIMS is to support the collection and supply of data, information, and information tools through appropriate analysis tools and through the creation of a Data Warehouse. This Database Layer not only guarantees the segregation of data with respect to classification/confidentiality/sensitivity needs, but manages the historicization of data using, as a factor of relationship between the data, mainly geometric objects and geographical and spatial references of the territory (paradigm of the spatial database [1]). In this way it is possible to analyze phenomena of a territory through appropriate analysis tools, selecting the context and the topic of the analysis from time to time, in order to then be able to carry out simulations or monitoring of phenomena related to the business of the FS Group companies, or detect and evaluate potentials, needs, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Finally, SIMS allows to produce data and reports for systematic mandatory communications (e.g. statistical reports for the Italian National Statistical Program – PSN Programma Statistico Nazionale [2] - or other legal obligations), and non-systematic data communications, as well as to provide data and information agreed with the associations to which the companies of the FSI Group have joined.