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Hot new Open Source ETL/BI products

If you haven't heard of them already, you should! These guys are hot in the market space. They are open source ETL, ELT, BI, Dashboards, and Analytics. Two awesome companies that should be checked out. One is Pentaho, and the other is Bread-Board BI. For low-cost solutions, these guys are hot. There are major institutions out there currently examining the use of tools like these. for prime-time.

Apparently I'm not the only one to notice. Pentaho grabs $8M in funding according to Computer Business Review Online. Shawn Rogers had a post back in July referencing these two vendors.

The link to the open source (sourceForge project for Pentaho is):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho
http://www.pentaho.org

"A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services. Ranked #1 in open source BI. "

The link to Bread-Board BI is:
http://www.breadboardBI.com
Bread Board BI has an On-Line demo that hits real-data in a real database....
http://24.5.207.85:7070/pentaho/Navigate?&solution=breadboard

"In a highly competitive global marketplace, knowing your customers, supply chain, finances, and workforce are critical to success. In the recent past, the complex systems required to consolidate and display this knowledge were extremely expensive and time-consuming to build. As a result, many systems never moved past the brainstorming stage, others were killed in development due to cost overruns.

Packaged Content + Open Source = The Breadboard Difference
Seasoned experts from Breadboard BI or one of our global partners match your needs to one or more Breadboard BI Solution Areas. Your solution is then iteratively customized using open source Solution Slices™. The result is a highly-tailored, scalable, enterprise solution built rapidly and inexpensively."

  Posted by Dan Linstedt on September 13, 2006 8:07 AM |

Comments

A similar project is Talend Open Studio. To discover it, visit http://www.talend.com !

Talend's solutions were created to allow users to develop their own components as well as easily integrate existing modules. Talend supplies a simple and functioning tool to package a module and integrate it into the Talend library.

The Talend solution is universal: its open component library is accessible to the developer community where quick and reliable product enhancements are completed.

Posted by: Olivier | October 24, 2006 6:05 AM

The BBBI demo has moved to http://breadboardbi.dnsalias.com. Your old link does not work.

Posted by: Jake | December 6, 2006 4:14 PM

Scriptella provides a developer's view on ETL process. It's like Ant for ETL and script execution - no fancy GUI, but it does its job well. Check it out!!


Scriptella is an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) and script execution tool. Its primary focus is simplicity. It doesn't require the user to learn another complex XML-based language to use it, but allows the use of SQL or another scripting language suitable for the data source to perform required transformations.

Posted by: ejboy | January 10, 2007 1:20 AM

One more similar product is ETL Integrator. Though the code is not yet open source, its available for free download. The link is www.glassfishwiki.org/jbiwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ETLSE

Posted by: karthik | January 20, 2007 6:27 AM

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