I spent all of last week traveling through Europe – meeting with open source partners and speaking with analysts and press about all-things business intelligence and open source. It was truly “trains, planes, and automobiles”, with a few city buses tossed in for complexity. In total, a very valuable trip, though. As example, I met with John Powell, [...]

For me, this week is full of press and analyst meetings and precedes a week of conference activities that will draw together open source leaders and aficionados for some of the most advanced thought and discussion in all of open source.   Must be in California, right?  Wrong.   Europe.  The two events next week (both in [...]

A recent online ComputerWorld article is entitled "Can Web 2.0 Save BI?".  The article focuses mostly on the mash-up functionality delivered by a Web 2.0-based analytic application and the simplicity it can deliver to even a novice end user.  I found this article interesting but narrow in its scope.  So, I wondered:  "How important are [...]