I am happy to announce some fun and exciting changes at OpenI, and the alpha release of our team’s work over last couple of months. First - OpenI as a “BI platform” on its own will discontinue. Instead, we will use Pentaho and Jasper as our base platforms as needed. The approach is to release “OpenI [...]

But amazingly, you can get more contributors to your “premium” version (and “free” version as well by extension) if you build a great partnership program around it like Pentaho has done. This is because not only the “premium” version pays Pentaho’s rent, it also helps their partners to pay their rent as well.

“The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 201” report by Boris Evelson came out today (Aug 10, 2010), categorizing OpenI as a “Reporting Tool” While we feel honored that Forrester took notice (last year they had pretty much called us “dead”), it is interesting to see that they see the Open Source BI [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]