Seminar program

Open Source Primer

• The Open Source promise
• Definitions & licenses
• Development model
• Myths, facts and fables
• Linux versus Windows

Open Source BI Overview

• Business Intelligence introduction
• The 'BI Stack': components & maturity levels
• OS BI Suites: JasperSoft, Pentaho and SpagoBI

Data Warehousing

• BI Suites in depth
• SpagoBI, JasperSoft and Pentaho (incl. demo!)
• Reporting tools compared
• Eclipse as BI development platform?
• The all-in-one Ingres Icebreaker solution
• Open Source BI compared to MISOS (Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle and SAS)
• Mix & match: using Open Source in a closed source architecture
• Open BI methodologies: Mike 2.0 & Agile data warehousing

Enterprise Performance Management and analytics

• Open Source EPM solutions?
• OLAP, Data mining and statistics
• Planning and budgeting
• OpenOffice as BI tool ?
• Portals & Dashboards

Implementing Open Source BI

• The case for OS BI: When and where to apply Open Source solutions
• Managing risk: OS BI implementation do's and dont's
• BI is never free: how to calculate the TCO for OS BI?
• How about implementation partners, support, tailoring and required skills ?
• Getting started: where to begin and how to proceed?

Summary and conclusions

• Analyst perspectives
• The future of Open Source BI