The Business Intelligence Showcase demonstrates our expertise with Microsoft’s business intelligence application suite. These technologies include the SQL Server database, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Recently added to the stack was the .Net chart control, a very powerful component that greatly improves productivity for producing visually appealing charts and diagrams on web sites and Windows [...]

There has been one single thing that I could not get out of my mind ever since I started entrenching myself in research about Open Source Business Intelligence for a conference talk. I am talking about what kind of products should be considered “Business Intelligence” in a wider sense, and what shouldn’t. I [...]

Open Source Business Intelligence solutions are becoming serious alternatives to traditional proprietary licensed software with over 25 open source projects providing a wide variety of tools for data warehousing and full BI suites. The survey should answer the question if and how much of the overall market the Open Source products are about to claim. [...]

Ilia Papas and I put this solution together about a year ago – actually, Ilia put it together based on my idea and prototype. Our article on Javaworld still generates some feedback and questions. I assume that there are people out there who would like to get their hands on a ready-to-use, configurable component [...]

I recently evaluated the Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 (what a name for a product!). I was not so interested in the history of the product and the politics of Microsoft’s product strategy than in how the product could be used to create a corporate dashboard on Molecular’s intranet.

I will be speaking about Open Source Business Intelligence at the First Annual Enterprise Open Source Conference in New York, NY, on June 5. I am in the middle of collecting material, contacting vendors and putting together a high-level agenda for the session. Check back frequently for updates and previews on this topic here.