Open Source Business Intelligence

WHAT IS HAPPENING
Customers today are having to pay high fees and extreme costs in order to have a closed system software for their company or organization. Sometimes closed systems are not necessary and an open system that already exists is a lot less expensive and more practical. There are quite a few companies out there today that are offering these safe and open systems that are available for other organizations to use. One that has come onto the market fairly recently is Pentaho, this company has made different tools available such as reporting, data mining, and analysis. This company has serious potential when it comes to coming out on the BI (Business Intelligence) software market. It is easy to use and is very practical for many start up companies.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOU?
There are so many companies out there today doing the same thing and making a lot of costly duplications on having closed systems. This seems like the best bet for start up companies looking to save some money, but still have the potential on succeeding. For every company there are many different options when it comes to simple business intelligence tools and where to set them up. A company can spend the extra resources on having a closed system, which some companies do need, but simple tools can be made open. In this case a company like Pentaho would be the best option to save money, yet still get the work done.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
If a company is still in the start up process I think that there are many different open business intelligence companies that start up companies are able to use. It is in their best interest to use the open systems on many different levels. When it comes to simple data mining or analysis these start up companies can use the open systems.


http://www.infoworld.com/t/business/open-source-business-intelligence-258