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Full Day Conference Session on Open Source BI and DW

Open source has little visibility in the mainstream data warehousing community. This is an attempt to change that. We've got four projects involved in the open source business intelligence and data warehouse course at the May TDWI. I'm finalizing the structure and lineup for the afternoon session,. The plan is to do demo-based comparison of the various projects, let them show interesting things they can do, present some short case studies, and do a panel on open source adoption.

The projects who have given me a verbal "yes" are:

• BIRT (Actuate)
• JasperSoft
• Pentaho
• SpagoBI

The morning session will cover OSS possibilities for the entire data warehouse technology stack. The afternoon is dedicated to BI. This should be a great time and will be a lot different from my usual full-day sessions. I'll be writing more about each project as I work on open source tool evaluations for an upcoming report.

Labels: BI, business intelligence, open source

Posted by Mark Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:46:00 PM | permalink |

Comments:

Mark,

We've been tracking over 25 open source projects related to the BI/DW stack. We're revising our linkblog right now to reflect some changes, but it's still a pretty good list. You can find the linkblog in the side column of our Open Source Solutions Blog, which should be linked to my name.

This looks like a great way to spend a day.

# posted by  Anonymous : 10:47 AM

 

I'm glad to see some other folks paying attention to the space. Most open source projects have difficulty marketing themselve to the corporate world to promote adoption and need the help. The corporate IT folks typically go to more focused conferences like TDWI rather than OScon or MySQL World, and the projects seldom speak outside of those conferences. I'd like to see more gap bridging.

Thanks for the note. I'll check out your list and see if I missed any on list I have tied to the stack.

# posted by  Mark : 7:53 PM

 

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