By BI Editor on Jun 11, 2008 in Business Intelligence, Open-Source, Pentaho | 1 Comment
Current version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, will be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2). GPLv2 is a software license published by the Free Software Foundation. Pentaho will also provide a “FLOSS Exception”, which simplifies distribution of Pentaho BI Platform [...]
By BI Editor on Feb 24, 2008 in Business Intelligence, Featured, Open-Source, Pentaho | 0 Comments
Companies looking to compete more efficiently by enabling more employees to conduct ad hoc business analyses can now turn to one integrated solution that combines the world’s most popular open source business intelligence suite with breakthrough analytic database price/performance thanks to a partnership between Pentaho Corporation and Vertica Systems. Together, Vertica’s column-oriented relational database management [...]
By BI Editor on Oct 9, 2007 in Business Intelligence, Featured, Jedox, Open-Source | 0 Comments
Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) does not have to be slower than commercial solutions. On the contrary, the processing time of Palo Server 2.0 has picked up 10 times the speed compared to its previous version and in-memory OLAP database applications used for planning, reporting, consolidation and analysis run that much faster. In fact, BI [...]
By BI Editor on Jun 20, 2007 in Actuate, Business Intelligence, Open-Source | 0 Comments
Actuate Corporation announced the informative results of its 2007 Open Source Software Survey, conducted across North America, Germany and the United Kingdom. Actuate Corporation is the founder and co-sponsor of the Open Source Business Intelligence project, BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools), with the Eclipse Foundation. This global survey focused on the following key areas [...]
By BI Editor on Apr 18, 2007 in Business Intelligence, JasperSoft, Open-Source | 0 Comments
More than 30,000 BI developers have registered for JasperForge.org since it was launched in July of 2006, creating a vibrant ecosystem of businesses and community developers that has already produced over 130 BI projects. JasperForge.org is an online developer site that provides free access to software and tools to build, deploy, and extend open source [...]
By BI Editor on Oct 30, 2006 in Jedox, OLAP, Open-Source | 0 Comments
German based ALTANA Pharma successfully implements full-scale scorecard solution based on Open-Source OLAP database “Palo”. ALTANA Pharma Deutschland GmbH utilise Palo (www.palo.net) for their “Selling Excellence Program”. Palo, an Open Source database developed by the Jedox (www.jedox.com), is used as a centrally accessible data storage in an application which, based on Key Performance Indicators, depicts [...]
