Chris Beels is a Vice President of Technology Management at Merrill Lynch and has eight years of experience in using Open Source tools like Eclipse & BIRT to do J2EE Application Design and Development. He is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect.
Open Source Business Intelligence software is finally coming into its own,
with three major players coming to the fore: JasperReports, Pentaho, and BIRT
(Business Intelligence and reporting tools). Business Intelligence technology
comprises solutions for delivering enterprise data in the form of
customizable reports, facilitating such practices as data mining and decision
support systems. Of the three leading projects, both JasperReports and BIRT
are commercial Open Source; they are backed by JasperSoft and BI veteran
Actuate respectively. Pentaho uses the more traditional collaborative Open
Source model. One of BIRT's distinguishing features is that it's an official
Eclipse project, giving it a strong endorsement by one of the leading forces
in the Java community. Our team chose BIRT after some due diligence on the
other two because of our prior experience with Act... (more)
Chris Beels is a Vice President of Technology Management at Merrill Lynch and has eight years of experience in using Open Source tools like Eclipse & BIRT to do J2EE Application Design and Development. He is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect.
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