Presentation at TDWI's conference: Open Source in Practice

Open source continues to make an impact on the BI industry. This session will include an overview of the open source model and philosophy as well as showcase several products in action.

What
  • conference
  • open source
  • cpm
  • bi
  • TDWI
  • workshop
  • seminar
When May 15, 2008
from 05:30 pm to 06:45 pm
Where Chicago, Sheraton Hotel
Contact Name TDWI - The Data Warehousing Institute
Contact Email
Contact Phone 1.877.242.2558
Attendees Alexander Pohl
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Meet the initiator, Alexander Pohl, of the Open-Source BI Framework in Chicago! He will share with you his ideas and experience by implementing best of breed Open-Source tools in an enterprise class environment. He will outline the pros and cons and compare the different models and technologies. Alexander will address the following topics:

  • What is open source
  • Who are the major players in open source
  • A sampling of open source products in practice

Within an open source Corporate Performance Management (CPM) framework, you will walk through examples that were implemented in an SAP and Oracle Financials environment.  Open source tools used throughout this session include: Online Analytics Server (Palo OLAP), user-friendly report generators, the great Excel Integration, the easy to use Cockpit for the  analysis of financial data, a package manager, and last but not least, ETL tools from Pentaho and Talend*.

The TDWI convention takes place:

May 11–16, 2008
Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers
301 East North Water Street
Chicago, IL 60611

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