Boulder, CO (MarketWire) June 10, 2009 BeyeNETWORK announces the release of its latest research report: An Adoption and Usage Survey: Open Source Business Intelligence and Reporting. Written by internationally known expert Josep Curto Diaz, this paper includes the results of a BeyeNETWORK survey about the different stages of adoption and usage of open source technologies and describes the current stages of implementation of business intelligence, open source and open source business intelligence products and solutions.

Key highlights include:

• Finance (22%), sales (21%) and marketing (20%) are the departments with the highest adoption rates for open source BI reporting solutions.
• Seventy-eight percent (78%) of all survey respondents are planning or continuing their open source BI reporting projects.
• No-cost licensing and open platforms are the top reasons respondents give for considering open source BI solutions.

“Josep Curto Diaz is one of our international thought leaders who writes on open source technologies for the BeyeNETWORK,” says Ron Powell, Cofounder and Editorial Director of the BeyeNETWORK. “Combining lessons learned during his professional career with the results of a survey of our site visitors, Josep clearly defines the current state of open source usage and adoption strategies.”

The full report is available for immediate viewing at the BeyeNETWORK’s research site: http://www.beyeresearch.com/study/10501.

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