Open Source BI Tool

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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Business Intelligence tool ( crystal reports for example )

Regards

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

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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On 27/04/2010 17:40, akp geek wrote:

Business Intelligence tool ( crystal reports for example )

Ah - grand - thanks!

Ray.

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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

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

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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
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Thank you all .

regards

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

akp geek wrote:

Business Intelligence

isn't that an oxymoron?

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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