SpagoBI is an open-source integration platform for enterprise business intelligence solutions, developed in accordance with free and open-source software principles. It aims to address various BI requirements such as reporting, data mining, and dashboarding, while allowing users to compose their own platforms based on open standards and without dependency on proprietary tools. The document discusses the advantages of using open-source solutions in BI, highlighting the potential for lower total costs and enhanced scalability.

1. Open Source
Business Intelligence

2. Who am I
Stefano Scamuzzo
Senior Technical Manager
Architecture & Consulting
Research & Innovation Division
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

3. The SpagoBI Core Team
Antonella Giachino
Stefano Modroni Davide Zerbetto
Andrea Gioia
Angelo Bernabei
Grazia Cazzin – Project Leader
Chiara Chiarelli Giulio Gavardi

4. BI and Open Source

5. Gartner - 2008

6. Why FOSS in Business Intelligence ?
The project is more important than the product, but the
products costs more than the project
BI products do not avoid project costs
BI products are often under-used
Slow cultural progress due to costs for research and
experiments
PRODUCT +
PROJECT =
SOLUTION

7. Opportunity and ROI with FOSS BI
Focus and investment on projects
Targeted investments, right measure (product and usage)
Investments protection
Experiments, R&I
Avoid constraints Strategic BI
Low TCO
No Lock-in Tactical BI
Low cost extensibility
Low cost scalability Operational BI
On time evolution
Increase of users, not of costs

8. SpagoBI

9. SpagoBI: a definition
SpagoBI is an integration platform for
enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy

10. What SpagoBI is ?
SpagoBI is an integration platform for enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy (Free and Open Source Software)
Platform:
It covers and satisfies all the BI requirements: KPIs, Reporting,
OLAP, Dashboard and charts, Data Mining, Free Inquiring (QbE),
Dossier, Geo-referenced analysis, Collaboration
Data Management, Profiling and security
Support for the administrator (versioning, scheduling, approval
iter, import/export, etc)

11. What SpagoBI is ?
SpagoBI is an integration platform for enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy (Free and Open Source Software)
Integration platform:
Not a product platform, with a predefined set of tools
Open to many products for the same/different analytical area, both open
source and proprietary
It allows the composition of one’s own platform time for time in the best
way
No binding dependences from products and tools
Open standards adoption
It allows to give the right answers to analytical questions by means of
different products

12. What SpagoBI is ?
SpagoBI is an integration platform for enterprise BI solutions, entirely
developed in FOSS philosophy (Free and Open Source Software)
Enterprise platform
Distributed architecture (scalability)
Adaptive behaviour of the documents based on the end users’
roles
Entirely Open Source
It is not the lite OS version of an enterprise commercial version

13. Integration Platform
Analytical Engines
Management Tools
Analytical Model

14. SpagoBI in a DWH/BI project
DWH Data Collaborative BI Portal
ETL Marts
Data
Sources
DWH
Extract Transform Model Analyse View Decide

15. Demo

16. Resources
SpagoBI Web Site
http://spagobi.eng.it
SpagoBI Online Demo
http://spagobi.eng.it/SpagoBI
SpagoBI Donwload Forge
http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204
SpagoBI Forum
http://forge.ow2.org/forum/?group_id=204
SpagoBI Commercial Mailing List
spagobi.international@eng.it