01470nas a2200133   4500008004100000022001400041245005400055210005100109260004200160520106600202100001701268700001501285856003601300       2009                        eng d  a1913-610200aEditorial: Business Intelligence (September 2009)0 aEditorial Business Intelligence September 2009  aOttawabTalent First Networkc09/20093 aFor the past decade, traditional proprietary tools from Cognos, Business Objects, Microstrategy, Hyperion, Oracle and Informatica have dominated BI environments throughout North America and Europe. The larger the customer it seemed, the bigger their appetite for spending money on proprietary BI tools. BI vendors have made billions selling software to larger clients throughout North America, much of it in the form of multi-million dollar site licenses. Large customers continue to pay huge perpetual annual maintenance fees, usually 20+ % of the initial license cost. Costs for additional users and new features requiring additional license fees can quickly add up to 40% - 50% of the annual BI budget. This has caused many organizations to scrutinize and question the value of their ongoing BI software expenditures.

In these challenging financial times, cost conscience CIOs and Directors around the world are looking for ways to reduce the ongoing costs of administering their BI program, and a large number of them are turning to open source BI tools.1 aLavigne, Dru1 aSelim, Sam  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/283