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The State of Open Source Business IntelligenceChristian Donner

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Getting from data to the source of a problem can be hard ...

A czar learned that the most disease-ridden province of his empire was also the province with the most doctors.

His solution?

He promptly ordered all the doctors shot dead.

Folktale from: Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner)

(He clearly lacked Business Intelligence)

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… or easy …"How would you rate the overall job President George W. Bush is

doing as president -- excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?

Source: Harris Poll, published by the Wall Street Journal Online on 5/12/2006

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Poll

• Who has implemented something that you would define as a BI solution before, either in your own organization or for someone else?

• Out of this group, who has used an Open Source BI product?

• Survey on http://cdonner.com (20 responses):

Currently using BI 85%Currently using OSBI 40%Evaluated OSBI in the past 40%Planning to use OSBI 35%

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Why this presentation?

• 2 years ago I started a low-budget BI project • Researched many products and technologies• OSBI was practically non-existent• Decided to go with Microsoft DTS and SQL RS• Today, the landscape has changed dramatically• I wanted to know: would I go with Open Source BI

today?

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Agenda

• What is Business Intelligence?• BI Trends• OSBI Trends• Products

• Pentaho• Jaspersoft• OpenI• BIRT• Bizgres• Mondrian

• Demo

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Business Intelligence – A Definition

• Business Intelligence • In 1989 Howard Dresner (Gartner Group) created the term

"BI“:“A set of concepts and methods to improve business decision-making by using fact-based support systems.”

• Wikipedia:• the technology used for collecting and analyzing business

information• a set of business processes for this purpose• the information obtained from these processes

• Includes:• ETL Tools• OLAP/Data Analysis Tools• Reporting Tools• Databases

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Business Intelligence - Components

Operational Datastore

ETL

Extraction

Relational Datastore Multi-dimensional Datastore

Storage

ROLAP

MOLAP

Aggregation

Reporting BI Platform

Delivery

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Business Intelligence Platform

• Integrate with business processes

• Manage and schedule reports

• Deliver reports through multiple channels, push and pull model support

• Maintain user security• Seamlessly integrate via

open standards with portals and applications

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Agenda



• Demo


Forecast: Business intelligence market growth

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

$5,253M $5,596M $5,997M $6,506M $7,005M $7,331M

6.5% 7.2% 8.5% 7.7% 4.7%N/A

BI services revenueBI maintenance revenueBI license revenue

Size

Growth

Actual Forecast

BI market size

(US$ millions)

Source: Forrester Research, “Business Intelligence Growth Is Driven By Compliance, Standardization, And Performance Initiatives”

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Mainstream BI Theme

• Keith Gile, Forrester Research:“We are witness to a change in BI that shifts the emphasis away from functionally powerful tools for power-user “producers” toward context-sensitive BI solutions for a large community of “consumers” of information.”

• Paul Doscher, CEO Jaspersoft:“The big commercial tool providers can handle performance management applications well, but left Operational BI behind.”

• License bottleneck•Lower-level in-house user•Public web sites


Forrester Wave™: BI Enterprise Reporting, Q1 ‘06

Where are the Open Source contenders?

Source: Forrester Research


Agenda



• Outlook


Why Open Source?

Source: Survey by Computer Economics, Frank Scavo


The Jaspersoft Story: BI for Everyone

Operational executives are being asked to make decisions more critical to the Corporation more frequently especially with the added scrutiny of SOX

compliance.

Legacy BI Companies have failed to solve the Problem

“We have Business Objects installed on our corporate data warehouse and 80% of our users only use 20% of

the functionality.”Michael Heschel, EVP Information Systems and Services, The Kroger Company

“A typical installation for a 1000 users for the full BI suite could run

As high as $450k - $700k for software licenses alone.”Intelligent Enterprise, August 2005

The full Business Objects product takes

180 CDs to install!!!

This slide © 2005 JasperSoft, Inc.


Organizational Involvement with OS BI

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19%43%

8%9%

Has deployed open source BI software

In development with open source BI softwareConsidering open

source BI software

Not Considering open source BI software

Don’t Know

(c) 2006 Ventana Research Open Source and BI Research


Comparison of OS BI with Commercial BI

Cost of Ownership

(c) 2006 Ventana Research Open Source and BI Research

Scalability/Performance

Openness/Flexibility

Database Support

Reliability

Metadata Support

Manageability

Ease of Use

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Significantly more Capable More Capable Equivalently Capable Less Capable Significantly less Capable Don’t know


Extranet Applications - The “Beachhead” of Open Source BI?

• Technology requirements favor open source• Pure J2EE offerings provide a better technology fit

than legacy BI technology• Licensing requirements contradict prevailing proprietary

models• “Named user” only – doesn’t map to extranet usage• Role-based – meaningless in extranets• >$1,000 USD per name user – cost prohibitive• Net/net: The “old school” BI licensing model breaks

down


Free software for sale!

• Community-based vs. for-profit companies• Open Source has become a business model• Acquisition of your vendor can change the terms

under which you use OS SW• Example: Bill Venners account of using Jive for Artima.com

• Example: Snort, Sale of Martin Roesch’s Checkpoint Software

• Whatever you do, factor in that your Open Source product may not always remain that.


Example: Jaspersoft Business Model

JasperIntelligence Product Family• JasperReports, iReports• Jasper Decisions, Jasper Server• Soon: JasperAnalytics, JasperETL

Commercial / Dual license

• Services packages on Subscription basis (JS & JR)• Commercial License, Support, Training, Documentation

• CPU based Pricing plus Support (JD)• Support pricing (JR)

• Incident support plus three annual support options from web based self-service to comprehensive 24x7x265

Leveraging strong and loyal community• SourceForge JasperForge



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• Outlook


OSBI Explosion

• There are about 25 products competing in this space, about half of which did not exist prior to 2005.

• Many of them will probably return to insignificance

• Because we are so early in the maturity cycle, it is difficult to make judgments about who will make it.


Open Source Reporting Tools

• Eclipse BIRT (Actuate)• Jasper Reports• JFreeReport• DataVision• Open Reports• OpenRPT• Agata Reports


Eclipse BIRT• (Business Intelligence) and Reporting Tools

• Eclipse Report Designer (ERD)• Eclipse Report Engine (ERE)• Eclipse Charting Engine (ECE)• Web Based Report Designer (WRD)

Source: Actuate


BIRT 2.0 Features

• Released January 20, 2006• Re-Use Library – A report component environment allows

developers with a range of expertise to share report components or functions for reuse.

• Page-on-Demand HTML- A page-on-demand navigation mechanism enables the efficient viewing of large report documents over the internet.

• CSS Style Sheets – External style sheets can be used across multiple report designs, making it easy to establish a common look across all reports in one application.

• Scripting Editor – BIRT supports the ability to code or script the behavior of reports using a perspective for Java Code Editing for BIRT reports.

• Large, Persistent Reports – Report developers can generate a report and then distribute a URL to end-users.

• Improved Charting Facility, Scripting – BIRT 2.0 includes a wizard for building common usage charts and advanced capabilities for including detailed charts within a report design.


Open Source OLAP Tools

• Mondrian• JPivot• gOLAP• PALO• pocOLAP


Open Source ETL Tools

• Clover ETL• CPluSQL• Enhydra Octopus• JetStream• KETL• Kettle• OpenDigger


Open Source BI Suites

• BEE• Bizgres• Openi• Pentaho• SpagoBI


JasperIntelligence Architecture

Customers Business Analyst Domain User Executive

USERCOMMUNITY

Operational DataSource

Content Store

Report Definition

Rendered Content

Images, Fonts, etc

Meta Data

JasperServer

Cube /Data Mart

InventoryPurchasingFinanceCORPORATE

DATA…

JDBC, POJO, XML, XML/A

HTTP, SOAP, Web Services, Java API

OUTPUT

Reporting Services Metadata Services OLAP Services

JasperETL

JasperIntelligence Platform

ETL Services

JasperReports JasperDecisions JasperAnalysis JasperETL

PDFHTML + AJAX MS EXCEL MS WORDJasperExplorer



Pentaho

Source: Pentaho


OpenI

Source: OpenI/Loyalty Matrix


OpenI at a Glance

• J2EE Web Application• Standards-based, integrates other Open Source

components• Connectors for Relational (JDBC), OLAP (XMLA), and

data mining data sets (RServe) currenly only XMLA• Supports Jasper .jrxml and custom RDL • JPivot for Pivot tables, JFreeChart • Supports JSP-168• Form-based authentication with J2EE Security


Bizgres

• Sponsored by Greenplum• Bizgres is a distribution of PostgreSQL (Open Source

DB)• Bizgres includes the following components:

• PostgreSQL 8.1.3 (Open Source RDBMS)• Bizgres Loader (Mass data loading utility)• Demonstration Programs and Utilities• KETL Integration (ETL solution for web log analysis)• JasperReports Integration• Bizgres Clickstream


Bizgres Clickstream Architecture

Source: Greenplum


Who leads the pack?

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Source: sourceforge.net


Agenda


• BI suites• ETL tools• OLAP• Reporting tools• Databases

• Demo


The State of Open Source Business Intelligence

• “Business intelligence” is a broad umbrella term• Lot of buzz in the media and from analysts• Young and growing market• Immature, but rapidly improving products• No clear market leader


Thank you!

Would I go with Open Source BI today? How about you?

Q&A

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