%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T Open Source BI Reporting Tool Review %A Benjamin Dietz %A Lily Singh %X 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. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 09/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/288 %N September 2009 %9 Articles %1 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. %2 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.