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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Open Source Business Intelligence Software and Tools

Business Intelligence (BI) is not a new term. It's nowadays a term that covers a set of fields such as Business reporting, OLAP, Decision Making Support, Data Analysis and Mining, and etc.

There are a lot of tools available for this big area. A Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence_tools) lists most BI related software. Of course, in this area, we hardly miss big players such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and etc. As always, these big software vendors offer proprietary software.

Apart from them, there are open source BI tools available as well. As I am new in this BI area, I am not sure how these open source BI tools are used in the market (if they are used) or they are just for academic purposes. I am also not sure if the BI market allows this type of open source tools to grow or they will be knocked out by the big players. Anyway, these questions are not important in this post. Here what I want to do is to briefly check some major open source business intelligence tools. Let's get it started.



Eclipse BIRT and Jasper
Please check this post: Eclipse BIRT and Jasper

Pentaho
This will be discussed later

RapidMiner
This will be dicussed later

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