12:58:46 pm, Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence, 309 words Posted by: Joseph A. di Paolantonio
As we cite in our OSBI Daily, an integrated reporting solution is coming to OpenOffice.org as reported by Pentaho and Sun Microsystems today, planned to be incorporated into the next major release of OpenOffice.ORG, version 2.3.
The jFreeReport open source report project was brought into Pentaho in late 2005, and has been enhanced with "drag-and-drop report designer, MDX support, and integration with the Pentaho platform for report scheduling, security, and portal integration[;] Pentaho's recently-announced standards-based metadata layer and AJAX-based ad hoc query tool will also support and extend Pentaho Reporting's capabilities" allowing OpenOffice.org users "to create reports with content from the OpenOffice.org Base database as well as a wide range of proprietary and open source relational databases, OLAP and XML sources".
and read more on GullFOSS
I see this as a very powerful development for Open Source adoption. This shows the power of
This is one more example of how open source business intelligence solutions and open source desktop applications can give established proprietary vendors a run for the money. While many open source commercial organizations aren't yet comfortable with competing head-to-head with large enterprise vendors and like to use the mantra "80% of the capabilities at 20% of the cost", I think that the open source platforms, appliances and solutions coming from the likes of JasperSoft, Pentaho, SpagoBI, Greenplum, Ingres, Mulesource, Alfresco and Sun Microsystems prove that open source can compete for large-enterprise, government, university and SMB customers with their combination of the advantages of community, flexibility and standardization, powerful and extensive functions, and amazing cost effectiveness.
Of course, being Apple users, we have to hope that this solution will quickly find its way into NeoOffice, once it's proven out in OpenOffice.org 2.3. 
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