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Open Source Business Intelligence Update

I started this blog one year ago today and while reviewing my posts from June of 2005 I paid special attention to the first one I did titled: Open Source Business Intelligence - a smart solution. In the post I remarked that if your not looking at open source as an enterprise solution alternative you might be missing a golden opportunity. My feelings haven't changed, its remarkable how often open source is mentioned in briefings, news items, and articles today. Since my first post on the subject we've added a full-time blog to cover the space hosted by Pete Loshin and almost every expert on the Network has mentioned it at some point this year. A quick search of B-eye-NETWORK.com produced 8000+ references to open source.

I listed a couple solutions that I had seen last June plus an updated list based on comments and feedback from readers, If I missed someone post a comment and I'll update the list.

Pentaho – http://www.pentaho.org
GreenPlum – http://www.greenplum.com

The following are all from readers comments
Jaspersoft - www.jaspersoft.com - (Thanks Emilio)
Eclipse/BIRT - http://www.eclipse.org/birt/ - (Thanks Emilio)
Mondrian - http://mondrian.sourceforge.net/ - (Thanks Emilioand Barry)
Jpivot - http://jpivot.sourceforge.net/ - (Thanks Emilio)
The Bee Project - www.bee.insightstrategy.cz/en/index.html - (Thanks Najib)
OpenI - www.openi.org - (Thanks Sandeep)
PALO www.palo.net - (Thanks Matt)
SQL Summit - www.sqlsummit.com/trends/OpenSourceBI.htm - (Thanks John)
Breadboard BI - www.breadboardbi.com. (Thanks George)

UPDATE:
Spago BI - http://spagobi.objectweb.org/

Please use the comments section to add what I've missed. I 'll add a list of articles soon.

  Posted by Shawn Rogers on June 5, 2006 9:38 AM |

Comments

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Posted by: OpenReports | June 7, 2006 11:01 AM

BIRT is pushed by wenfeng li. Let's look at his background...

Wenfeng li incured a huge lawsuit with his previous employer(Microstrategy) and brought a huge lose in lawsuit money to Actuate. Actuate has to layoff several times.

Then wenfeng li pushed to China. BIRT is his last desperate resort to build his force in Actuate. However, wenfeng li( PMC lead as he named himself )
doesn't really have much experience and knowledge in Java technology.

Essentially Wenfeng li is wasting Actuate's money and resources to gain huge benefits for himself. At the same time to develop a very inferior product and call it a "massive success" and continue to add version number to that...

Posted by: lawsuit | September 13, 2006 2:17 PM

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