Open Source Business Intelligence
March 18, 2009
The interview with Marc Krellenstein, founder of Lucid Imagination, an open source search company, appears in this issue of Beyond Search (March 17, 2009). If you are a fan of open source, you will want to read “Business Intelligence is Broken – and Open Source Can Fix It” in Database Trends and Applications here. The article summarizes a survey’s findings. The author’s argument is similar to the one I made several years ago about enterprise search; that is, complexity, cost, and user dissatisfaction. One interesting comment in the article was:
Close to three out of four survey respondents cite issues that have hampered their BI efforts, led by poor data quality, the complexity of BI tools, lack of BI skill sets within organizations, and lack of management buy-in.
For me the most important comment in the article was:
Already, 28% of respondents that are using open source have implemented open source BI solutions on their premises. (This is equivalent to 10% of the total survey sample.) In 2 years, more than a third of open source users will be deploying BI as part of their portfolios.
Enterprise software vendors will point out that a survey does not a trend make. Denial is okay, but I think the open source options are going to benefit from the present economic downturn and the emergence of companies like Lucid Imagination, Tesuji, and Lemur Consulting who offer open source software and professional services.
Stephen Arnold, March 17, 2009
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Another couple of companies working on open source applications useful for BI applications are Pentaho http://www.pentaho.com/ and Talend http://www.talend.com/
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