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By Jesus Torres

Currently, many executors Business Intelligence and analysts try to choose the right tool for the implementation of BI. And most of the professionals who try to find out how open source BI tools will take the business scene and how will their performance.

First, the Open Source Business Intelligence Applications, from the point of view, the tool is able to develop and demonstrate proof of concept, a key starting point for BI efforts. In addition, most Open Source BI Applications (Apps OSBI) can be used directly by developers without licensing fees.

Second, the OSBI Apps Are achieve acceptable level of maturity and user friendly graphical interface for developers, intended by the OS Integrated Development Environments like Eclipse business, the standardization and make developers jobs a little easier '. Then, the developer familiarized with Eclipse, can easily develop various applications with the same IDE, including BI Apps. Thank you for JDBC connectivity, ETL programming can access almost all databases and data repositories, which enables easy data integration development process.

Third, the OSBI Apps requires fewer hardware and software resources of commercial partners, or development of affordable laboratory allows the server farms and cheap storage, even the OS such as Linux.

Finally, the application OSBI commercial support can be obtained from the OSBI big players: Pentaho, Jaspersoft, SpagoBI and encouraged to offer such support services and many consultant companies and developers to offer outsourcing services based on these tools.

Depending on the demand for Business Intelligence services' in any organization, the IT unit can:

• Show project 'Proof of Concept to obtain consent from users and stakeholders.
• Start offers Business Intelligence Applications and Services to each organizational unit or compan to use all these tools.
• Upgrade and grow with Open Source tools or migrate with minimal effort for the commercial tool.
• Mixing Equipment Source
• Open in commercial and passed (some units with a few tools, other units serviced by other means) or in layers (multiple layers of commercial, some Open Source tools) way.

Jesus Torres is a software specialist, consultant and systems integrator of information systems with more than 15 years of experience.

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