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Business Intelligence among the highest ROI technology trends that is universally applicable in most many business cases. Although the technology and implementation itself can be quite an investment for smaller companies, there are also open source solutions available that offer the reporting and dashboards for companies not seeking a comprehensive data warehousing project.
Pentaho BI offers open source reporting, analysis, data integration, dashboards, and data mining. The reporting output is very flexible in terms of format, allowing users to review data in Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, rich text format, or plain text. The interface is user-friendly, offering step-by-step report creation. There is also an Enterprise Edition which offers more extensive features including risk mitigation. The analysis program is able to speedily allow users to explore different dimensions of data and compare measurements and queries. In addition to 100 out-of-the-box mapping objects, Pentaho BI offers integration with data warehouses while providing scalability. Users are able to create different permission levels that include customized dashboards with metrics personalized to be relative to each user's needs. Developers can also use Java Objects or Java Server Pages (JSPs) to create custom reports that can be intergrated with other applications.
Bluenog ICE BI offers open source dashboards and reporting solutions that also provide organizations with detailed user permissions settings. Leverage Web 2.0 technologies such as social networks and blogs to manage content and collabortaion while providing insight to performance of marketing campaigns and more. Cost of ownership is low, requiring only minimal per user or per server usage costs. The detailed analytics feature offers forecasting and reports that can be filtered to precise results within a few clicks. A helpful tool in particular is the versioning feature, which offers an easy way for developers and business users to roll back to previous versions of reports and settings. The user-friendly interface allows users to integrate and aggregate data from multiple sources and create customized reports detailing different dimensions for the information. View the pamphlet (Requires Adobe Reader)
Jaspersoft offers comprehensive open source business intelligence including the very popular iReport tool that allows businesses to have total control over the look, feel, and contents of the JasperReports interface. Jaspersoft has a suite of BI tools that include standalone and embeddable report servers, relational OLAP, Java reporting library, data integration, and 100% pure visual Java report designer (iReport). User-friendly tools like JasperAnalysis offer multidimensional insight on data, that includes products, customers, geography, and sales. Everything that is necessary to fully utilize the BI tools is included as out-of-the-box, web-based tools that provide a highly scalable interface of virtualized tools. The BI tools include a developer and business-side version of the information workflows as well. |