Category Archives: Open Source

Nine Key Data Warehousing Trends for the CIO in 2011 and 2012

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

Gartner Identifies Nine Key Data Warehousing Trends for the CIO in 2011 and 2012 Key Data Warehousing Issues to be Discussed at Gartner Business Intelligence Summits, February 22-23 in Sydney, and May 2-4, Los Angeles STAMFORD, Conn., February 9, 2011— CIOs … Continue reading →

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Google Refine 2.0 – (Google’s data quality tool)

Posted on November 16, 2010 by

  Google Refine 2.0 Posted by David Huynh Our acquisition of Metaweb back in July also brought along Freebase Gridworks, an open source software project for cleaning and enhancing entire data sets. Today we’re announcing that the project has been … Continue reading →

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Surprise: 44% Of Business IT Pros Never Heard Of NoSQL

Posted on October 12, 2010 by

They should. It’s fast, resilient, and often cheaper than conventional databases. Plus, it’s the backbone of many Web 2.0 sites By Charles Babcock, InformationWeek NoSQL systems are still in an early phase, but already they’ve played a key role in … Continue reading →

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Announces Pentaho Data Integration 4.0, World’s First Unified Development Environment for Business Intelligence Applications

Posted on March 31, 2010 by

Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced the preview of Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) 4.0, the next major product milestone in the company’s Agile BI initiative, announced in November. PDI 4.0 is the world’s first fully … Continue reading →

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Talend Announces Record 2009 and Continues Growth in the New Year

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

Company Cements Its Position As A Global Leader In Data Integration Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced that 2009 was a record year for the company. For the tenth consecutive quarter, Talend achieved … Continue reading →

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What You Need to Know about New Open Source MDM Offering

Posted on February 1, 2010 by

by Loraine Lawson This week, Talend released its master data management solution, arguably the first open source MDM solution. I’ve been sifting through the news announcement and analysts blogs, and the buzz is positive, but cautionary. Depending upon whom you … Continue reading →

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The Promise of Free Business Intelligence

Posted on January 14, 2010 by

by Lyndsay Wise With recent economic uncertainties and promises of recovery, organizations are taking a more conservative approach to overall software adoption. Consequently, the business intelligence (BI) market has had to adapt itself to help organizations take advantage of what … Continue reading →

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Gartner Predicts that Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools Production Deployments Will Grow Five-Fold through 2012

Posted on December 14, 2009 by

Future of BI to Be Discussed at Gartner Business Intelligence Summits, in London, Sydney, and Las Vegas Once the preserve of cash-strapped organizations, open-source business intelligence (BI) tools are becoming a mainstream deployment option for all kinds of BI usage, … Continue reading →

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The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management

Posted on December 3, 2009 by

By Nenshad Bardoliwalla In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have … Continue reading →

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At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege

Posted on November 23, 2009 by

By STEVE LOHR A TOUR of its carefully tended, 300-acre corporate campus here leaves little doubt why surveys, year after year, rate the SAS Institute, the world’s largest private software company, among the best places to work. There is the … Continue reading →

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