Another open-source business-intelligence offering is available through the Eclipse Foundation. It's called Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) and was started by business ...

There is a wide range of open-source options within BI subcategories like data integration, reporting tools and data mining, but Forrester’s report focuses Actuate, Jaspersoft, SpagoBI and ...

Meanwhile, a number of vendors are participating in an Eclipse open-source project Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), which was founded by Actuate.

This proposition could save open-source data centers millions of dollars spent on proprietary BI solutions.