
Business intelligence
Currently, there are many business intelligence implementation, and analysts are trying to choose the right tool for BI implementations. And a large proportion of such professionals are trying to figure out how open source BI tools would be an exclusive scene and how its results would be.
First and foremost is the open source business intelligence applications, in my opinion, can be tools to create and show proof concepts, an important starting point for BI work. In addition, most open source BI applications (OSBI Apps) immediately used by developers without licensing costs.
Secondly, the OSBI Apps achieve an acceptable level of maturity and a nice graphical user interface for developers to OS through integrated development environments to Eclipse efforts to standardize and work a little easier Developers. Then a developer familiar with Eclipse, develops a wide range of easy applications with the same idea, including business intelligence applications. Thanks to JDBC connections, ETL programming can be virtually any database and access to databases for easy data integration processes development.
Third OSBI Apps requires less hardware and software resources as commercial equivalents, so affordable laboratory or farm development with cheaper servers and storage, including operating systems such as Linux.
Finally, the OSBI may be obtained from commercial Apps support OSBI big players Pentaho, Jasper Soft, or drive SpagoBI offers these support services and many businesses, consultants and developers provide outsourcing services on the basis of these instruments.
Depending on demand business intelligence services "to an organization that allows IT departments:
- , Evidence given to projects approved by the concept of users and stakeholders.
- Start-to-business intelligence applications and services for each organizational unit, or offer for any company with these tools.
- Modernize and grow with this open-source tools or moving with minimal effort on commercial tools.
- A mixture of commercial and open source tools in the crossed (some units with no tools other devices operated by other tools) or layers (some layers in some commercial tools for open source) way.