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 [...]

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.

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Dear OpenI Community: I am very happy to announce that today we released the beta version of OpenI 2.0. I want to thank our entire development team for all the hard work they have put in for this release. Please download it from sourceforge.net and try it out. We look forward to hearing your feedback [...]

A product’s progress is measured not by features, but by user experience.   You can add a lot of value to your product by removing features. Spending 6 to 12 months with a 4-5 person team to develop the first release of your product is way too long. You can’t wait that long to get market [...]

Fellow blogger Bhupendra Khanal has an interesting post that mentions the challenges associated with BI 2.0/Information 2.0 (he also plugs our very own OpenI, which is much appreciated — Bhupendra, may OpenI karma come back to you thousand-fold Software industry, not unlike any other, contains a lot of hype and probably sometimes even more so [...]

I attended a talk at the monthly BI SIG meeting at SDForum by Christian Marcazzo from Spotfire, now a part of Tibco. I have long admired Spotfire’s innovations on data visualization front, so I was curious how they see BI from the whole Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) aspect, and couple of things stood out. First – [...]

Thanks to Dan Roam’s post, and Swivel’s post, I’m glad I found this. Start your next “charts and graphs” presentation with this gem from PBS Kids:  

I frequently check out Mosha Pasumansky’s blog on OLAP. I learned from his recent post that Microsoft announced 2 very interesting milestones coming up on their BI roadmap – project Gemini (which will be the new incarnation of Analysis Services), and SQL Kilimanjaro release (a move toward column-oriented architecture). If not anything else, check out [...]