Gartner’s report points out that open source BI is not just for cash-strapped organizations anymore. Mainstream deployment of open source for all kinds of BI usage shows it catching up with commercial platforms in terms of adoption but finds open source BI not yet on par with commercial functionality.
The average deal for an open source BI contract are approximately $30,000 for a yearly subscription, but some contracts are more than $500,000 for multiyear support subscriptions, the same as many commercial vendors. Commercial implementations are usually in the financial sector and telecommunications. Different vertical industries are pushing open source BI adoption, and it is being seen more often in midsized companies, as well as government, the public sector, health care and manufacturing.
“As you might imagine, the increasing open source traction has not gone unnoticed by the commercial vendors,” Andreas Bitterer, research vice president at Gartner, said in the release. “While often dismissed as being no competition, even the large established BI vendors have come up with countermeasures to address the challenges from the lower-cost competitors.”
The report “ open source Business Intelligence Tools Production Deployments Will Grow Five-Fold through 2012” is available at Gartner’s Web site.
Read the latest from Information Management’s open source BI blogger, Steve Miller.
Valerie Valentine is senior editor for Information Management. You can follow her on Twitter at @va1va1entine or via email at valerie.valentine@sourcemedia.com.
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