Welcome to the Mark Madsen Expert Channel on Open Source BI for the BeyeNETWORK. The channel is dedicated to coverage of business and technical topics related to open source for business intelligence, data integration and data warehousing. Like it or not, open source is influencing this industry in many ways, and there are open source alternatives for just about any product. Over time we’ll accumulate papers, articles and resources to help you see how open source is evolving in the data warehousing market. If you would like to suggest an article or link, send an email to me at open_source_links@ThirdNature.net.

Mark, President of Third Nature, is a former CTO and CIO with experience working in both IT and vendors, including a stint at a company used as a Harvard Business School case study. Over the past decade, Mark has received awards for his work in data warehousing, business intelligence and data integration from the American Productivity & Quality Center, the Smithsonian Institute and TDWI. He is co-author of Clickstream Data Warehousing and lectures and writes about data integration, business intelligence and emerging technology.

Editor's note: More Mark Madsen articles, resources, news and events are available in the BeyeNETWORK's Mark Madsen Channel. Be sure to visit today!