BI at Cloud Expo
Sophisticated and advanced analytics tools that can strategically aggregate
relevant data is key to the success of every business. The right solution can
be challenging to find considering that we grab information from a multitude
of platforms today – enterprise, web, social networks, SAAS, you name it..
Snaplogic and Mindtouch have decided to combine their respective offerings in
a package that they call Business Application Integrations (BAI) which they
say will work out cheaper to meet enterprise integration requirements for
medium sized businesses.
SnapLogic is an open source data integration framework for integrating data
on both sides of the enterprise firewall.
MindTouch helps with simplified, user friendly presentations of this data. So
if you a... (more)
Open-Xchange, which provides business-class open source collaboration
software, has introduced a free connector for Mozilla Thunderbird, the
cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
The "Community OXtender for Thunderbird" software connector gives users full
access to appointments and contacts stored in the Open-Xchange Server and
enables them to use Thund... (more)
Open Source Journal on Ulitzer
Talend Tuesday open sourced a Master Data Management (MDM) solution in the
name of democratizing the market and fighting off proprietary systems from
TIBCO, Oracle and IBM.
The widgetry hails from Talend's Amalto acquisition - mixed with some of its
own technology - and is advertised as the first comprehensive solution for
data integration, data quality, ma... (more)
Open Source Journal
It is one thing to use open source software and evangelize its capabilities
to a marketplace. It is quite another to actually attempt to contribute to
that software.
I've read all over the internet that 1 in 100 contribute, or some
implementation of The Drake Equation represents the number of active users
contributing to an open source project. However, in trying to f... (more)
Firefox Session at Cloud Expo
Mozilla has been going toe to toe with Microsoft on the browser front
standing solidly behind the European Union‘s stance against the software
giant over monopoly abuse for tying the Internet Explorer browser to the
Windows operating system.
Mozilla, is also rapidly digging a hole in Internet Explorer‘s dominating
market share.
So it just does not make any ... (more)