Analyst Report Shows 90% Lower Costs with Open Source BI

	Leading Analyst Compares the Cost of Proprietary Business Intelligence to that of Pentaho’s Commercial Open Source BI. Mark Madsen is president of Third Nature, a consulting and research firm focused on business intelligence, data integration and data management. His latest report, “Lowering the Cost of Business Intelligence with Open Source” shows you how to significantly reduce the cost of BI for your firm with commercial open source. The report shows how firms are saving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars with open source BI. For small BI projects firms are saving an average of 50% and for larger BI projects, firms are saving more than 90%. The report further indicates that proprietary pricing models are far too complex for the BI buyer and often lead to over purchasing verses the vendor transparency and licensing simplicity with commercial open source BI. Key findings in this research include how to: Dramatically reduce BI software and support costs with open source Save more as you grow Stop overspending on BI software licenses and support Reduce the complexity of purchasing and implementing BI
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