Open source business intelligence gains credence as more companies adopt BI and large vendors partner with open source players in an evolving BI ecosystem.

Firms release open-source business-intelligence tools Start-up Greenplum partners with two companies to create an open-source stack of data analysis tools and a database.

Open source BI tool Evidence helps teams build data products using SQL and markdown, and the YC alum has raised $2.1M to help its growth.

More Open Minds Are Needed for Open-Source Intelligence To Advance Leveraging insights from the youngest intelligence source arena will be crucial and complex in the years to come.