[GRLUG] Open Source Business Intelligence

[nick]

If the Spreadsheet works, then sure, that's your BI tool. Probably does the
job for many small business users.
I've yet to test the OpenOffice3, but the last version was clunky for tasks
that involved connecting to DBs, permissions, parameters.
I could do most, but it was slow and involved writing up documentation on
what's possible and not, by way of experimentation, along with detailed
instructions for a frustrated user.

Nick

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org>wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 13:20 -0500, nick wrote:
> > My simple definition: Tool that converts data into information, useful
> > for business management.
>
> So then, that's a spreadsheet?
>
> I've been as baffled by this category of software as the other poster.
> Some BI tools seem to be SOA, others ETL, some CRM, and still others
> little more than extremely complicated report builders.   And I develop
> in the "groupware" space, so I'm used to very soggy definitions;  the BI
> people got us groupware people completely beat.
>
> > > I while ago when I was at a grlug meeting some asked me if they were
> > > any open source business intelligence software. I just ran across
> > > Pentaho. I don't known if it is any good.
> > >
> > > http://www.pentaho.com/
> > What exactly is "business intelligence", as a tool?  What does a BI
> > app seek to accomplish?
>
>
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