[p2p-research] Fwd: September Issue Available

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>
Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Subject: September Issue Available
To: Dru Lavigne <dru at osbr.ca>


Readers:

The September issue of the OSBR is now available in  PDF and  HTML formats.
The editorial theme this month is Business Intelligence and the authors
include:

John Kemp, a Principal Consultant, and Benjamin Dietz, a BI Consultant,
provide a primer on BI, introducing the terms and concepts used throughout
the issue.

David Currie, founder of Clearview Informatics, examines the keys to
success that allow an organization to extract maximum value from an
investment in BI software.

John Kemp takes a look at how buying patterns have changed and what it
means for businesses looking at open source BI software.

Steve Holub, a BI Consultant, reports on a recent survey of open source
software tools used in BI and data warehousing systems.

Benjamin Dietz and Lily Singh of SQL Power Group compare the features of
four popular open source reporting solutions.

Thierry Badard, CTO of Spatialytics, highlights the need for geospatial BI
software and the integration of the spatial component in a BI software stack
in order to consistently enable geo-analytical tools.

Tom Bondur, Content Development Manager in the Developer Communications
group of Actuate Engineering, and Jason Weathersby, the BIRT Evangelist at
Actuate Corporation, introduce BIRT and discuss why Actuate chose the open
source development model and the benefits that this project brings to the BI
user community.

Sam Selim answers the question "What will Oracle do with Sun's open source
offerings?".

The editorial theme for the upcoming October issue is Arts & Media and the
Guest Editor is Anthony Whitehead from Carleton University. Submissions for
this issue are due by September 20--contact me if you are interested in a
submission.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Dru Lavigne
Editor, OSBR
http://www.osbr.ca
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Open Source Business Resource
http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr



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