The Visual Crossing Architect Suite provides the vital data pre-processing and administration that is essential for an enterprise scale visualization solution.
The Architect Suite consists of the Spatial Architect product that is responsible for data geocoding and server administration.
The Region Creation tool allows administrators to aggregate data to represent certain geographical entities such as company-specific regions.
- Powerful Geocoding & Spatial Attribute Configuration
- Spatial Data Set Linking
- User Privileges to Control User Access to Map Functionality
- Server Administration
Spatial Architect
Spatial Architect truly is the foundation of the Visual Crossing platform providing the key services an administrator needs to configure and administrator the system.
It is through Spatial Architect that the administrator identifies the attributes within the MicroStrategy project that will be available for visualization.
For example, if the project includes country, region, and state level information, then Spatial Architect is used to indicate that those attributes are spatial attributes.
Whenever those attributes appear on a report, the user is able to map the report. Naturally, when those attributes do not appear on the report then the report may not be converted
into a map.
In addition to configuring the business intelligence attributes that should appear on a report, most maps will also include other data either to provide the user with the ability to identify correlations between various sets of data or simply to provide the viewer of the map a way to orient the spatial data to known landmarks such as countries, cities or regions. Spatial Architect provides the ability for linking other data sets that may be added to a map definition in addition to the spatial attributes.
Once the data warehouse data has been successfully configured, the administrator may use Spatial Architect to identify which users are allowed to view and edit maps. These privileges are on a per-user basis and so form a powerful, user-level mechanism to provide analysis to your user base.
Finally, to be able to configure the Spatial system to perform most optimally, the flexible Spatial Server options may be configured via the Spatial Architect tool, ensuring that the complete Spatial system is high performance and highly scalable.
Region Creator
In many cases, your company will have spatial geographic area that are not directly represented by simple political geographical entities such as states, zip codes, post codes or countries. This is where the powerful Region Creator is indispensable. The Region Creator will aggregate elemental Spatial quantities into regions as they are used within your particular organization. For example, if your sales regions are a combination of states or countries, those sales districts can be quickly and automatically constructed using the Region Creator. Once the Region Creator has produced the appropriate aggregations, the attribute can then be added to the project and will be available for mapping and analysis via the Spatial Server.
