Open Source BI Evolution in 2009

Dear Readers,
Beeing silent for a while, in this first post of “09″ I would like to focus on rapid changes in Open Source BI market : those past months, I have seen every week early Open Source BI customers coming back to commercial solution (usually, early implementation of stone age Open Source  BI solution), along [...]

Our Children will accuse us !

Thanks to Hervé for this link (and special thanks to Jean-Paul Jaud for the film)
http://nosenfantsnousaccuseront-lefilm.com/bande-annonce.html

Patrick

Getting Nervous !

Dear Readers,
It seems there are some stress and battle on what we call the “blog area”.
This may be in relation with the global economic situation, that put additional pressure on SMB, especially companies that works in the Open Source market. Far away from banks trouble, at the end of the line, you can find IT [...]

Who is responsible ?

Dear readers,
Over the last past weeks, we have seen so many changes in our financial world, and it will be soon time for post-analysis (even if nobody can tell today that this situation is over)
I just wanted to share with you some thoughts and ideas  about the banks and insurance that feld into bankruptcy :
- [...]

Commercial Open Source – Part 2

Dear Readers,
Well, I get some strange feedbacks about my last post, so I write a new update on this subject to clarify some ideas.
It is an evidence that commercial companies have an interest in making money, so an interest in beeing profitable. In the open source area, beeing profitable means either selling commercial licences and [...]

Commercial Open Source

Dear Readers,
Let’s talk about commercial activity in Open Source Software !
Well, in Open Source, there are 2 kind of companies : some have commercial activities, other have no clear commercial activities (I mean, no salesman), and let’s take an example : Pentaho & JasperSoft versus Intalio.
Pentaho & JasperSoft have an important number of salesmen (and [...]

Tell it again

Dear Readers,
This week, while meeting an old friend of mine and having a simple discussion with him about Open Source projects, I just remind that there is still a huge gap between Open Source Commiters and Decision Makers. For most Decision Makers, Open Source is still “what they want to avoid”, because of some stupids [...]

Building a Partner Network

Dear Readers,
Day after day, we can see more users of our Open Source Platforms and we are now recruiting key partners to provide local support, integration and training at Enterprise level. Process is already initialized, and we have now to organize internally to provide more support to our growing partners network. Our Web support facility [...]

Customer focus

Dear Readers,
We’ve dedicated those past days on answering to an important Request for Proposal, and this is one of the reason why we did not published any news about our platforms. In fact, we had to test whether or not our functions suits to the customer’s requests, and arrange some minor modifications to be as [...]

Software Innovation

Dear Readers,
I have read a post on http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.htm
that tells us pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development !
This article reminds me about the Goldman & Sachs study on marketing investment Cognos, BO and Hyperion have done from 2000 until 2005 compares to their R&D investments. During [...]