OW2 Consortium Launches Business Intelligence Initiative at Solutions Linux in Paris
Paris, France (PRWEB) January 29, 2008 — OW2 Consortium launches a new Initiative in the Business Intelligence (BI) domain at the OW2 Conference, held at the Solutions Linux Paris trade show.
The BI Initiative will create dedicated implementations addressing specific needs of vertical markets. An OW2 Initiative is a market-driven collaborative activity undertaken to facilitate integration between OW2 projects and help build business synergies between members and non-members.
The main projects from the OW2 code base currently are: SpagoBI, the Business Intelligence free platform provided by OW2 co-founder and Strategic Member Engineering Ingegneria Informatica who is leading the Initiative, and Talend Open Studio, the ETL tool, provided by OW2 co-founder Talend, the leader in open source data integration tools.
In addition, the first participants in the Initiative include Altic, a French open source integrator, Luxembourg-based Artemis Information Management, an established leader in statistical and economic analysis, and Italian laboratories active in the datawarehouse and BI domains from the Universities of Bologna, Milan and Trento.
“This group, made up of developers, integrators, SMEs, users, and researchers, is already a good example of the network we want to develop, it will allow us to meet our goals in the different areas we are addressing”. says Gabriele Ruffatti, OW2 Board member and Initiative Team Leader.
“The first of its kind in OW2 to take-off, the BI Initiative takes the Consortium up to a new level in its development.” says Cedric Thomas, OW2 Consortium CEO. he adds.