We received some decent feedback in our discussion thread on OpenI’s future roadmap. Here’s one from “noblomov” that describes how OpenI is different from other open source BI tools and where we should focus next (we couldn’t have said it any better – so thanks!)
Hi Sandeep,
thanks for sharing with us what should be the future of Openi and [...]

A great question came up on OpenI forum from Andre, which I feel is important to share with all of you:
What new features that are planned for the Open? There is a forecast for the next version? What is the main advantage of the Openi on the Pentaho?
Greetings,
André
What new features that are planned for the [...]

First off – congratulations to our friends at Pentaho on making a great strategic acquisition of LucidEra’s ClearView product and embedding it in Pentaho Enterprise Edition. With this, Pentaho will completely replace JPivot as the web UI to view and report OLAP data. Many of us (including OpenI) have lamented about JPivot UI at one [...]

We just released OpenI 2.0-RC2. Our plan is to promote this RC to 2.0 general release in about 2 weeks, barring any new critical fixes. Big thanks to our team who have done a really great job.
There is also a demo available at http://demo.openi.org/openi (login is openi2/openi2)
And you can download it directly from: http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=142873
Among the [...]

Gone are the days when Linus Torvalds could post on a bbs about his open source project and the entire world would flock there.  In this day and age, you need Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and who knows what else is coming down the pipeline
So — dear OpenI community — to get things started, we now [...]

Last week during a client meeting to evaluate a new project, a question came up — “If JPivot does all the MDX generation/parsing,   provides the UI components for charts and grahps and tables — what is it that OpenI does that’s different from JPivot?”
A legitimate question indeed.
First off — this is not attempt to [...]

This week I completed my tenure as an employee at Responsys and started my new venture OpenI — a company that provides open source business intelligence software and services to businesses that want to be data-driven in their operational strategy.
I guess you can call me a serial entrepreneur now, since OpenI will be my fourth [...]

Today, we have the release candidate RC1 of OpenI 2.0 available for download. There is also a demo available at http://demo.openi.org/openi (login is openi2/openi2)
We look forward to hearing your feedback on improving this release as we work on further testing of this version to get to general release. Please note that we are changing the license of [...]

This renews my belief in open source — community is everything!
Mariano García Mattío has put together a pretty detailed soup-to-nuts youtube video tutorial for OpenI (in Spanish) along with MySQL, Tomcat, and Mondrian. I guess we should get our act together and publish the English version soon
Thanks Mariano.