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Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design flow, and broad connectivity with more than 400 pre-configured application connectors to bridge between databases, mainframes, file systems, web services, packaged enterprise applications, data warehouses, OLAP…

Business Intelligence Software Vendors 2015 The essence of a Fat Free Guide is brevity, and so there will be no feature-by-feature comparisons, which are fairly meaningless anyway. Each product is positioned for its particular strengths, and it is then up to the user to decide on the capability they actually…

Big Data Visualization Tools 2015 Big data visualization tools rest on their ability to connect efficiently with big data databases, and manage the data in a useable format. The visualization tools themselves typically facilitate the creation of charts and dashboards, but some offer more advanced forms of analytics such as predictive…

As data sources proliferate so the need for good ETL tools increases. Here is a fairly extensive list of ETL tools currently available. Free ETL Tools Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design…

Pentaho Corporation has announced the native integration of Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) with Apache Spark ™, enabling orchestration of Spark jobs. A development effort initiated by Pentaho Labs, this integration will enable customers to increase productivity, reduce maintenance costs, and dramatically lower the skill sets required as Spark is incorporated…

Business Intelligence Tools 2015 A terse list of business intelligence tools, with pertinent characteristics – functionality, platforms, cost basis. Should serve to form short lists. For more information on product click on the tags at the bottom – some have reviews and fuller details elsewhere on this site. WindWard –…

The current fascination with all things visual would seem to imply that embedded BI is primarily concerned with attractive dashboards and ad-hoc querying. For a few users it might be. Senior management certainly want to see dashboards with KPIs, but front-line workers have job to do and cannot afford to…

Eclipse Birt BIRT (free BI suite) is an open source software project that provides the BIRT technology platform to create data visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE. BIRT is a top-level software project within the…

Free OLAP Tools 2015 Jedox Jedox provides an excellent BI platform based on open source technology that is one of the most cost effective solutions in the industry. At the heart is an OLAP server, and many types of business data can be conveniently stored in this format. It is…