Why the OW2 BI Initiative

The BI Initiative is a joint effort set up to:

• improve the coordination effort in the OS BI context
• increase the use of OS BI solutions at enterprise level
• strengthen connections between integrators, vendors, users and the research communities
• attract more attention from the research activities to foster innovative BI solutions and practices.

Benefits

The BI Initiative offers a number of benefits to the participants:

• a market opportunity
• the chance to drive the growth of their OS BI solutions in a common direction achieving a great worth
• the involvement in research activities driving innovation
• the chance to enlarge business opportunities, such as consultancy and services
• a facilitation in driving OS BI solutions in the emerging countries' markets.
  

News & Events

News

• July 6th, 2010 - JasperSoft joins the OW2 BI Initiative
• April 15th, 2010 - SpagoBI Analytical Appliance for Ingres RDBMS now available
• April 8th, 2010 - Engineering and Novell releases the SpagoBI Analytical Appliance
• December 10th, 2009 - Engineering and Ingres release SpagoBI/Ingres Analytical Platform
• October 2008 Ingres Corporation is joining the BI Initiative
• September 2008 ClaraVista (France) joins the BI Initiative

• 2010-11-24, Paris (FR) OW2 BI initiative at the Annual OW2 Conference
• 2010-09-27, Portoroz (SLO) OW2 BI initiative presentation at the Slovenia Business Linux Conference
• 2010-03-18, Paris (FR) OW2 Session in Solutions Linux Conference
• 2009-11-17 - 2009-11-18, Grenoble (FR) fOSSa Conference
• 2009-09-18, Aalborg (DK) AOBI & BIT event
• 2009-08-31 - 2009-09-02, Linz (AU) DaWak 2009
• 2009-04-01, Paris (FR) OW2 Annual Conference

• to be planned:   see last meeting minute