Open Source in the Business Intelligence Market:

Crossing the Threshold to Mainstream Adoption

A Third Nature Technology Report White Paper

Open source rose quickly in the data warehousing field, from almost nothing a few years ago to community and commercially‐supported projects for every conceivable information delivery use or element of infrastructure. Open source has become mainstream for technical infrastructure, so it is only natural that it move from this into applications and tools.

This paper, written by Mark Madsen, is based on a survey that looked at adoption and use of open source in the business intelligence and data warehouse market. The goal of the survey was to learn about three elements of adoption:

• What organizations are using open source in this segment of the market?
• What types of software are being deployed?
• What are the benefits and challenges?

Language: English
Length: 16 pages
Format: PDF