Vanilla 1.50 is available

Dear Readers,
Version 1.50 of Open Source Business Intelligence Platform Vanilla is available at : http://www.bpm-conseil.org/vanilla150/
MySQL version is available : http://www.bpm-conseil.org/vanilla150/vanilla-tomcat-mysql-1.50-ce.zip
- documentation for installation : http://www.bpm-conseil.org/vanilla150/Vanilla_1.5_Installation_Guide.pdf
- prerequisite : http://www.bpm-conseil.org/vanilla150/Vanilla_1.5_Requirements.pdf
- Post Installation : http://www.bpm-conseil.org/vanilla150/Vanilla_150_Post_Installation_Instruction.pdf
Vanilla 1.50
This major version contains news and enhancements :
- Enhanced Workflow Designer, with support for Orbeon Xform interface, Bursting for Reports, Pools of process [...]

Reporting with Vanilla (part 1)

Dear Readers,
In many BI Projects, reporting (along with Dashboard) is a central subject, and reporting tools have to be flexible and powerfull. BIRT and IReport are the 2 clear leaders in the Open Source area to design reports, but in large deployment, nobody will use direct SQL statment as datasource … every BI consultant will [...]

Talking about FreeMetadata

Dear Readers,
I would like to focus on some of the advanced features of FreeMetadata, our central component that manage our secured business data approach of BI applications.
FreeMetadata is central in Vanilla, and is used as a datasource in following components :

FreeWebReport (Web Ad-hoc), BIRT and IReport (Report Engines)
FreeAnalysis Schema Designer (Olap Designer)
FreeDashboard (Dashboard Designer)
BI Profiler [...]

10 reasons to launch Vanilla BI Platfom

Dear Redears,
While launching Vanilla 1.31 this week, I just think about the reasons we had to launch the Vanilla project mid-07, please find bellow some of those reasons :
1) to be in position to answer to customer’s request and provide customer with the tools they are looking for. This is the No 1 reason, and [...]

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 [...]