I will email you separately on the specifics of the commercial terms — but essentially it involves a commercial (not GPL) license to OpenI and different options of support tiers that provide you dedicated support.

Re custom schemas — OpenI platform itself does not have any default schema. Each OpenI installation assumes that you have your own database schema based on which you want to build your BI solution. For on-demand deployments, OpenI supports multi-tenancy by providing the concepts of “projects” – where each project has its own set of database schema, OLAP cubes, and data mining models. This way, you can design a default schema for your specific implementation, which will be the starting point for each new client “project” in OpenI, and then you can customize the schema as per that client’s need.

Hope that helps

Sandeep

Can you elaborate on the commercial terms? Specifically, for SaaS solutions that wish to embed OpenI as their reporting/analytics capability, will the commercial terms allow them to do so?

Another question that comes to mind vis-a-vis on-demand solutions is, custom schemas. Every SaaS platform allows some sort of custom schema capability by client. How is this accounted for in OpenI solution? Particularly, when its billed as a Business intelligence platform for on-demand solutions.

thanks,
Nagaraj