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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