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  1. Open Source BI Tool

    Bala Venkat <akpgeek@gmail.com> — 2010-04-27T16:33:32Z

    Hi all -

             I would like to know, if there is a open source BI tool for
creating reports against Postgres database ? appreciate your help

Regards

  2. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> — 2010-04-27T16:38:40Z

    On 27/04/2010 17:33, akp geek wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
>              I would like to know, if there is a open source BI tool for
> creating reports against Postgres database ? appreciate your help

Pardon my ignorance - what's a "BI tool"?

Thanks. :-)

Ray.

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  3. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Bala Venkat <akpgeek@gmail.com> — 2010-04-27T16:40:26Z

    Business Intelligence tool ( crystal reports for example )

Regards

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:

> On 27/04/2010 17:33, akp geek wrote:
> > Hi all -
> >
> >              I would like to know, if there is a open source BI tool for
> > creating reports against Postgres database ? appreciate your help
>
> Pardon my ignorance - what's a "BI tool"?
>
> Thanks. :-)
>
> Ray.
>
> --
> Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
> rod@iol.ie
>

  4. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com> — 2010-04-27T16:41:08Z

    2010/4/27 akp geek <akpgeek@gmail.com>:
> Hi all -
>
>              I would like to know, if there is a open source BI tool for
> creating reports against Postgres database ? appreciate your help

Pentaho have some good tools
http://www.pentaho.com/


>
> Regards
>



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  5. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> — 2010-04-27T16:43:12Z

    On 27/04/2010 17:40, akp geek wrote:
> Business Intelligence tool ( crystal reports for example )
> 

Ah - grand - thanks!

Ray.

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rod@iol.ie

  6. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> — 2010-04-27T17:12:31Z

    On Apr 27, 2010, at 9:33 AM, akp geek wrote:

> Hi all -
> 
>              I would like to know, if there is a open source BI tool for creating reports against Postgres database ? appreciate your help

Pentaho, BIRT, JasperReports (and associated tools like iReport), JFreeReport, DataVision, OpenReports, FreeReportBuilder, rlib, fyiReporting and xTuple are some to take a look at. There's a lot of overlap and repackaging of much the same underlying engines in there.

The first three are the most commonly mentioned.

Cheers,
  Steve

  7. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> — 2010-04-27T17:43:25Z

    On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:33 -0400, akp geek wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
>              I would like to know, if there is a open source BI tool
> for creating reports against Postgres database ? appreciate your help
> 
Pentaho


> Regards


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  8. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> — 2010-04-27T18:42:48Z

    On Tuesday 27 April 2010 19.12:31 Steve Atkins wrote:

[...]
> BIRT
[...]


FWIW, my cow-orkers are quite happy with BIRT (especially with the designer 
environment in Eclipse) after having used Crystal and Actuate previously.  
I've no idea how BIRT compares with the other OSS tools, but compared to 
those two using BIRT was quite a step up in terms of ease of use / available 
documentation & debugging tools.

cheers
-- vbi

-- 
Most scientists think that the not-fossil theory is a red herring;
indeed, they think that oil is lots of herrings (and other things)
compacted over time into sticky black mud.
        -- Prospect Magazine, March 2003, p. 6

  9. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Bala Venkat <akpgeek@gmail.com> — 2010-04-27T19:57:16Z

    Thank you all .


regards

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 19.12:31 Steve Atkins wrote:
>
> [...]
> > BIRT
> [...]
>
>
> FWIW, my cow-orkers are quite happy with BIRT (especially with the designer
> environment in Eclipse) after having used Crystal and Actuate previously.
> I've no idea how BIRT compares with the other OSS tools, but compared to
> those two using BIRT was quite a step up in terms of ease of use /
> available
> documentation & debugging tools.
>
> cheers
> -- vbi
>
> --
> Most scientists think that the not-fossil theory is a red herring;
> indeed, they think that oil is lots of herrings (and other things)
> compacted over time into sticky black mud.
>        -- Prospect Magazine, March 2003, p. 6
>

  10. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> — 2010-04-27T20:40:27Z

    akp geek wrote:
> Business Intelligence

isn't that an oxymoron?

  11. Re: Open Source BI Tool

    Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> — 2010-04-27T20:54:31Z

    On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 13:40 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> akp geek wrote:
> > Business Intelligence
> 
> isn't that an oxymoron?

Depends, you want your paycheck?


> 
> 
> 


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