Information Management Blog / Forrester Muse titled "Results of The Forrester Wave: Open Source Business Intelligence, Q3 2010" contests that BI continues to be one of the top priorities on everyone's mind.
The main reason?Enterprises that do not squeeze the last ounce of information out of their data stores and applications, and do not focus on getting strategic, tactical, and operational insight into their customers, products, and operations, risk falling behind competition.
Another finding relates to the fact that developers increasingly use open source to run key parts of their IT infrastructure.
Over the past few years, we've seen that developers adopt open source products tactically without the explicit approval of their managers. And management has grown increasingly comfortable with it. In fact, throughout 2009, most client inquiries Forrester received regarding open source were focused on how to move from tactical adoption to strategic exploitation.
Yet, when you put the 2 and 2 together (OSS and BI), you mostly get a mixed market, where one unfortunately has to compare apples to oranges.
Why?
Before plunging into a tool evaluation and selection process, ask yourself the following questions, and make sure you are doing a like-to-like comparison:
