1. Open source business intelligence: The next big thing?
By Sharon D’Souza
Published: 19 May 2011
The expansive growth in the business intelligence (BI) solutions market has resulted in open source
players joining the fray, observes Yahoo India’s Rohit Chatter while describing how business
intelligence is rapidly becoming an operational process in Indian organizations.
The observations by Chatter, who is a BI and Data Architect with the R&D arm of the Data & Insights
Group at Yahoo India, should be viewed in light of Yahoo’s development and adoption of an open
source BI tool in the recent past. Yahoo’s example underscores the need felt by Indian companies to
make use of analytical capabilities offered by a BI tool while leveraging the cost savings of the open
source alternative.
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