Two New Open-Source BI Projects

A couple of open-source BI links. Nicholas Goodman sent me a link through to a recent summary he'd made of the various open-source BI projects, and in particular pointed out the Pentaho Nation project, a group of industry veterans who are aiming to build a cohesive technology stack out of the various open-source BI components.

In addition, Julian Ford, one of my colleagues at SolStonePlus, pointed me in the direction of the BEE Project, who are putting together a suite of tools - an ETL engine and a ROLAP server - for BI project within mid-size organisations. The BEE Project recommend mySQL as the database engine and aims to support implementations of up to 50GB (with a max of 10GB per fact table). Not one I'd heard of before (they're from the Czech Republic) but I'll certainly bookmark the page and check back later on.