I’ve been busy with the big boys for the past few weeks, but open-source offerings are in the news and demand comment. Open source DW software provider Infobright has a new CEO, Mark Burton and though he’s an “interim,” he’s hands-on and has the pedigree to help get some traction.
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Pentaho Goes “Open Core” With Lucidera OLAP Viewer
Open-source BI vendor Pentaho has purchased technology rights from failed BI SaaS vendor LucidEra, and plans to combine LucidEra’s Clearview, a reporting and analysis OLAP front end for non-technical users, with the Mondrian open source OLAP engine used by Pentaho Analysis, in a new offering called Pentaho Analyzer Enterprise Edition, available both on-premise and on-demand. Clearview willContinue reading “Pentaho Goes “Open Core” With Lucidera OLAP Viewer”
Kickfire Disrupts DW Economics, Targets Mainstream ADBMS Opportunities
In just 18 months, Kickfire has established itself as one of the most intriguing of the ADBMS insurgents. It espouses a radical go-to-market strategy: target the overwhelming majority of the market in the sub-5Tb space, and let others battle over who’s doing best at the top end, fighting over a small group of prospects. KickfireContinue reading “Kickfire Disrupts DW Economics, Targets Mainstream ADBMS Opportunities”
Infobright Bids to Anchor An Open Source DW Ecosystem
I recently sat down for a talk with Miriam Tuerk, CEO of Infobright – an open source, commodity hardware-based analytic database (ADBMS) vendor focused on the data warehousing market. Infobright is another of the leaders in the open source information management wave IT Market Strategy has been tracking. Founded in 2006, Infobright has assembled aContinue reading “Infobright Bids to Anchor An Open Source DW Ecosystem”
Talend Uses Open Source and Community to Transform Data Integration
Talend, a California-based open source data integration vendor with a development center in China, first shipped product in late 2006, and two and a half years later has established a strong, growing business as more and more firms attempt to build a relatively complete stack of open source data management software. With a recent $12M roundContinue reading “Talend Uses Open Source and Community to Transform Data Integration”