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To prepare for software selection and to put all of the pieces together in terms of business and technical open source business intelligence implementation requirements, the following checklists will help you identify the tasks and considerations involved in planning your OSBI implementation.

This is an excerpt from Lyndsay’s book, “Using Open Source Platforms for Business Intelligence: Avoid Pitfalls and Maximize ROI.”

Familiarity with Open Source and Current BI Infrastructure

Busineses Requirements Identification

Data Warehousing and Data Integration

Lyndsay Wise recently was interviewed by Information-Management.com about her book. Read the interview here.

Excerpted from “Using Open Source Platforms for Business Intelligence: Avoid Pitfalls and Maximize ROI” by Lyndsay Wise, published by Morgan Kaufmann, September 2012. Published with permission.

Lyndsay Wise is the president and founder of WiseAnalytics, a boutique consulting and analyst firm focused on business intelligence. Lyndsay has ten years of IT experience in business systems analysis, software selection, and implementation of enterprise applications. She provides consulting services for small and mid-sized companies and conducts research into leading technologies, market trends, BI products and vendors, mid-market needs, and data visualization. In the spirit of community, social networking and general collaboration, WiseAnalytics has launched an online community geared to small and midsized organizations with the goal of sharing advice, experiences, best practices and creating a grassroots approach to industry research by having SMBs drive research initiatives.