The combination of Sun Open Storage and the commercial open-source Infobright data warehousing and Pentaho business intelligence and ETL software packages dramatically lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure. 

Composed of Sun hardware systems and commercial open-source solutions Pentaho for BI and data integration, and Infobright, built on MySQL, for data warehousing, this solution comes in two customizable recommended configurations to fit your data requirements and budget -- and ease deployment. 

Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions. 

Talend is an open source provider of data integration products, it has a business model and organisation that more closely resembles that of a conventional software vendor, while still leveraging the open source model. 

The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. 

Organizations have long known that implementing their records management initiatives is challenging. People and processes are both important elements, but choosing the right records management solution can be the difference between success and failure. Read on to learn about selecting the right records management solution for your organization. 

This white paper is intended for IT managers, project leads, and developers who must implement open source business intelligence (BI) to support the ever growing business user needs. You will learn how to add new reporting features and functions to your applications without any scalability issues and more. 

Join Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chairman of the Apache Lucene PMC, and Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS and Apache Lucene PMC member, and Sameer Maggon of AT&T Interactive for an in-depth technical workshop on the potential and application of the newly released Lucene Spatial libraries. 

Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available. 

Lucid Imagination brings market-leading expertise to open source enterprise search, and can help any organization quickly design and optimize search solutions based on Lucene and Solr. 

This whitepaper explains the advantages of reusing open source components in projects implemented by agile development teams, discusses the issues and risks that must be managed, and highlights the benefits organizations can receive by leveraging open source components. 

This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions.