| Right now, lots of Business Intelligence implementers | | | | software resources that it commercial counterparts, |
| and analysts are trying to choose right tools for their BI | | | | allowing affordable labs or development farms with |
| implementations. And a big percentage of these | | | | cheaper servers and storage, even OS's like Linux. |
| professionals are trying to figure out how open source | | | | Finally, OSBI apps support can be obtained |
| BI tools would take the business scene and how would | | | | commercially from OSBI big players: Pentaho, |
| be its performance. | | | | Jaspersoft, SpagoBI and Actuate offers these support |
| First of all, Open Source Business Intelligence | | | | services and many Consultant companies and |
| Applications are, from my point of view, capable tools | | | | developers offers outsourcing services based on |
| to build and show proofs of concepts, a key starting | | | | these tools. |
| point for BI efforts. Additionally, most of Open Source | | | | Depending on Business Intelligence services' demand |
| BI Applications (OSBI Apps) can be utilized instantly by | | | | on any organization, IT units can: |
| developers with no licensing costs. | | | | - Show projects' Proof of Concept to obtain approval |
| Secondly, OSBI Apps Had reach an acceptable | | | | from users and stakeholders. |
| maturity level and friendly graphics users interfaces for | | | | - Start to offer Business Intelligence Applications and |
| developers, aimed by OS Integrated Development | | | | Services to any organizational unit or to all company |
| Environments efforts like Eclipse, which standardize | | | | using these tools. |
| and make little more easy developers' work. Then, a | | | | - Upgrading and growing with these Open Source |
| developer familiarized with Eclipse, easily can develop | | | | tools or migrates with minimal efforts to commercial |
| a wide range of applications with the same IDE, | | | | tools. |
| including BI Apps. Thanks JDBC connectivity, ETL | | | | - Mixing commercial and Open Source tools in |
| programming can access virtually all databases and | | | | traversed (some units with some tools, other units |
| data repositories, allowing an easy data integration | | | | serviced with other tools) or layered (some layers |
| processes development. | | | | commercial, some Open Source tools) ways. |
| Thirdly, OSBI Apps requires less hardware and | | | | |