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- A New Business Model to Drive Business Intelligence Acceptance and Adoption
- Business Intelligence BI is a well-established and generally well-known software category that spans a wide range of functional capabilities. Specific definitions will vary from customer to customer and vendor to vendor, but most will agree that business intelligence typically refers to the challenge of providing business users with meaningful information...
- Tags: Pentaho, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-06-13
- How you acquire open source projects
- You do it backward.The integration, both personal and technical, occurs before the deal closes. The price, based on sales, is determined afterward.Pentaho CEO Richard K. Daley has done four such deals for the open source business intelligence tool company he heads-up, and calls the process akin to a courtship.The latest...
- Tags: open source, Pentaho
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- Pentaho: Disruptive BI
- Pentaho: Disruptive BIImpressive productI talked to them at the MySQL Conference, and was very impressed with the product.
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Pentaho, business intelligence
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- Pentaho: Disruptive BI
- Business Intelligence BI software refers to programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. Pentaho was founded in 2004 with a mission to become the leader in BI using a "commercial open source" model. ...
- Tags: Pentaho, business intelligence
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- Open source blooming in new field
- Ex-software executives from Lawson, Hyperion, Oracle, SAS and other companies in the analytics field are heading up a new open source community and company, the Pentaho BI Project. (The Pentaho Indians were responsible for domesticating the West Indian Manatee.) It's part of the growing trend of former executives of proprietary...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2005-06-14
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- Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up
- Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing upSorry Dana, but you scewed upHi Dana,I totally agree that more transparency would be a good thing for Sun and its products and projects, and more openness would be the next big step. Beyond that I don't agree with much that you wrote here.>...
- Tags: Team management, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Simon, non-development community, open source project, team, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- GPL divide still lives, one year on
- GPL divide still lives, one year onThe Freeware Ghetto"If the GPL just becomes a freeware license while “commercial” versions of the same programs are offered under commercial licenses, does the GPL risk becoming a freeware ghetto?"Amen - I was so pleased to see this question posed - as it seems...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Tools & Techniques, GPL, freeware, F/OSS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Where should you go for open source support?
- Where should you go for open source support?The puzzlement is............Who goes anywhere for support?If it's an OEM computer, they go to the manufacturer. Microsoft makes it VERY CLEAR EULA that they are NOT responsible for anything that goes wrong, even though the software belongs to them, because they do not...
- Tags: puzzlement, Microsoft Corp., Tim, open source, KDE
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Best of breed now means open source
- In discussing the purchase of Cognos by IBM, BusinessWeek writer Steve Hamm laments the "end of best of breed," meaning enterprise software is now hopelessly consolidated in a few strong hands. That's true if you're looking at proprietary systems. But open source has a...
- Tags: Consolidation, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Is Microsoft OOXML the best deal open source can get?
- Is Microsoft OOXML the best deal open source can get?And that brings up the point. Is it high time that IBM drop Smart Suite???I think it is. They could put all of those programmers on OpenOffice.ODF != OpenOfficeHow often will technical journalists keep confusing applications with formats? IBM has...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), open-source community, open source, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Google Inc., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2007-07-03
- LucidEra opens for business intelligence on demand
- Dubbing itself the salesforce.com of business intelligence, LucidEra ends its beta period and formally opens for business. I covered most of the basics about LucidEra in this November 2006 post. The companys on demand business intelligence BI solution is targeting the SMB market, taking a bottom up approach that will...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SaaS, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- The hybrid model in open source
- In order to get more mileage from their efforts Im seeing more and more open source companies adopt a hybrid model. (The shirt shows a mule train pulling a car. Available from Muledesign.)Hybrid licensing comes in three flavors:An open source developer holds out some code as proprietary. Medsphere is doing...
- Tags: open source, hybrid model, open-source developer
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- LucidEra: On-demand business intelligence
- Ken Rudin caught the on demand bug working as head of engineering for salesforce.com in its early days and then at Siebel as Vice President and General Manager of its CRM OnDemand business unit. Now Rudin is launching LucidEra, an on demand, multi-tenant service in hopes of becoming the salesforce.com...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Mulesource gets behind open source ESB platform
- Open source is well known as disruptive software industry force in the guise of operating systems (Linux, Solaris), servers (Apache, TomCat, JBoss), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and other categories, ranging from business intelligence (JasperSoft, Pentaho) to system management (Qlusters, GroundWork).The latest project to come out of the shadows to challenge the...
- Tags: Mule, MuleSource
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Open source seeks the top of the stack
- One of the big open source stories of 2006 is the move beyond base applications to the top of the enterprise application stack.Adaptive Planning, for instance, is using open source and free software techniques to gain traction against rivals like Business Objects and Cognos. At LinuxWorld this week it announced...
- Tags: open source, Bill Soward
- Blog posts 2006-08-17
- Advanced ETL With Pentaho Data Integration
- The recent quote in the industry press about the great potential of Pentaho Data Integration formerly named Kettle drew a lot of questions and a few critical comments from many of the author's peers. In general, they wanted to know why they should include Pentaho Data Integration in the list...
- Tags: ETL, Consulting, Data Integration, Modeling, Research & Development, Outsourcing, Databases, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-08-17
- Crystal Reports, meet open source
- Crystal Reports, meet open sourceMeet BIRTIt's all abouto Eclipse Rich Client Platform RCPo BIRTHey, Who is this guy BIRT, anyhow!? ;)Nice to see open source giving people more choiceJasperSoft's announcement is exciting. It's nice to see more open source projects addressing the frustration that people have with large proprietary...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Crystal Reports, JasperSoft, open source, BIRT, Open Source BI, business intelligence
- Discussion threads 2006-04-24
- Open source meets business intelligence
- Open source meets business intelligenceSince when is business about intelligence?It's about profits. That's why people with Masters' degrees are still jobless to this day.What's going on is simplification. A gross dumbing down... combined with "steamlining", which in Earthly English means "the elimination of jobs".free moneythey are intelegent because...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, open source, business intelligence
- Discussion threads 2006-04-24
- Sleepycat: Open source plays with strings
- Sleepycat's acquisition this week is a poigniant reminder of how licenses that call themselves "open" or "free" often come with strings attached, and why Foundations like Eclipse and Apache are so important.Quick quiz: what do Sleepycat, JBoss, and MySQL have in common? A dual license - one free but viral...
- Tags: Sleepycat
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Platform: Technical White Paper
- Organizations are all looking to increase revenue, lower expenses, and improve profitability by improving efficiency and effectiveness in their business processes and overall performance. Business Intelligence BI software vendors claim that they have the technology that can provide this improvement. Vendors concentrate on selling products or tools that can be...
- Tags: White Paper, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2005-07-08
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