Open source business intelligence (BI) makes business sense. OLTP application suites provide built in processes based on industry best practices. The processes and best practices provided by proprietary vendors are valued for implementation of accounting, ERP, CRM and other transactional systems. Implementations of these systems require large resource commitments for licensing.
BI platforms provide value through their ability to transform data into information. Each company has a unique data architecture leveraging multiple data sources. The uniqueness of each company system architecture requires extensive configuration and/or development of proprietary applications. Open source is an excellent methodology to get the most value out BI.
If customization is required to develop new OLAP cubes, ETL mappings and dashboards companies should consider directing funds towards this development as opposed to procurement of licenses and then the development effort.
An excellent open source BI tool is Pentaho.
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This is good stuff.
When will my cloud populate?
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