Open Source Solutions

Here's a guide to what's happening in open source business intelligence and data warehousing at the 2007 MySQL Conference and Exposition.

Speakers

• Fabrice Bonan is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Talend.
• Roland Bouman has been awarded the MySQL 2005 Beta Challenge, and the MySQL 2005 Forum Leader of the year.
• Matt Casters is Pentaho's Chief Architect for Data Integration and the founder of the KETTLE open source data integration tool.
• James Dixon is Pentaho's CTO and Chief Geek.
• Virgil Dodson is a Technology Evangelist at Actuate Corporation.
• Victoria Eastwood is a consultant with Infobright Inc.
• Ian Fyfe is currently director of product management and product marketing at JasperSoft Corporation.
• Julian Hyde is Pentaho's Chief Architect for OLAP, and the founder and lead for the Mondrian OLAP project.
• Barry Klawans is responsible for the technical vision and direction of JasperSoft Corporation's products.
• Brian Miezejewski is a Principal consultant for MySQL.
• Lance Walter is Pentaho's VP of marketing.

Sessions

• Leveraging Open Source for Operational Data Integration
• BI4DBAs: Using Pentaho, BIRT, and Eclipse for Monitoring MySQL
• Addressing Data Chaos: Using MySQL and Kettle to Deliver World-class Data Warehouses
• Exploiting MySQL 5.1 for Advanced Business Intelligence Applications
• Web-based Ad-hoc Query and Reporting with Pentaho
• Flexible End-user Reporting from MySQL with BIRT
• Data Compression and Analytic Query for Data Warehousing
• Using the JasperSoft BI Suite for Data Integration, Reporting, and Analysis with MySQL
• Building Scalable OLAP Applications with Mondrian and MySQL
• Embedded JasperSoft for MySQL Inside Enterasys
• Integrating MySQL and JasperReports
• High Performance Data Warehousing with MySQL: Tricks and Tips from the Field

Exhibit Hall

The Exhibit Hall Hours are:

• Tuesday, April 24 - 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Tuesday Night Reception - 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 25 - 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

OSBI related companies with booths at MySQL 2007 include Actuate Corporation, JasperSoft in Booth #409, Pentaho, and Talend in Booth #606.

And don't miss the Birds of a Feather gathering (BoaF): MySQL Data Warehousing and BI with Roland Bouman, Matt Casters, James Dixon, Julian Hyde, Brian Miezejewski, Lance Walter, and Nicholas Goodman. The related sessions on GIS, scalability, performance and tuning, clusters, and The Declarative Power of Views, all look very interesting.

See you there.