TY - JOUR T1 - Business Intelligence: A Primer JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - John Kemp A1 - Benjamin Dietz AB - This article provides a primer on business intelligence (BI) and serves as an introduction to the concepts used throughout the rest of the articles in this issue of the OSBR. We define BI, discuss the components of a BI solution, explain the types of BI tools and provide a brief overview of the evolution of BI. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/284 IS - September 2009 U1 - SQL Power Group John Kemp is a Principal Consultant with SQL Power Group. John is responsible for the delivery of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects at SQL Power. A 20-year information technology veteran, John previously provided Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence consulting services with KPMG, SAS Institute, Infobright Inc., and as the lead of his own consulting firm. U2 - SQL Power Group Benjamin Dietz is a Business Intelligence Consultant at SQL Power Group. Benjamin wrote his Master's thesis on Open Source Business Intelligence and graduated from University of Applied Science Karlsruhe, Germany, with a Master of Business Information Systems. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source BI Reporting Tool Review JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Benjamin Dietz A1 - Lily Singh AB - The main purpose of a business intelligence (BI) system is to provide access to information for decision makers. Reporting tools help to create, administer and distribute reports. Reports can be classified into three categories: i) standard reports containing information in table form; ii) cubes which are online analytical processing reports designed to analyze multidimensional data; and iii) dashboards which provide an overview of selected reports and key performance indicators. Each of these report types are often supplemented by graphical representations of the data. There are many different reporting solutions available in the open source market. In this article, we compare four open source reporting solutions. They give a good insight of the current state of the market and are among the the most popular solutions in use today. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/288 IS - September 2009 U1 - SQL Power Group Benjamin Dietz is a Business Intelligence Consultant at SQL Power Group. Benjamin wrote his masters thesis on Open Source Business Intelligence and graduated from University of Applied Science Karlsruhe, Germany with a Master of Business Information Systems. U2 - SQL Power Group Lily Singh is a Business Intelligence consultant at SQL Power. A graduate form the University of Waterloo, Lily has been a consultant with SQL Power for the past 2 years. In this time she has contributed to different projects ranging from Data Migration, Data Cleansing to building complete Data Warehouses. ER -