GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Open-source business intelligence solution lands at Brussels airport

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Computing.co.uk

10February2011 11:49amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Brussels airport has replaced business intelligence (BI) systems from Oracle and IBM with an open-source solution from Pentaho.
The solution will replace reporting software from Oracle and an extraction, transformation and load tool from IBM, and is about £300,000 cheaper than comparable proprietary systems, according to the airport's operator.

The deployment followed a two-year investigation into suitable products that saw Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition tested against rival systems from IBM, SAP, Microstrategy and Information Builders. (read full report)

 

 

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