Objectives

The BI Initiative aims at fostering the growth of a business ecosystem in the OS BI domain bringing business opportunities to new class stakeholders. It promotes the development and evolution of a new, community driven generation of OS BI tools, as well as innovative methodologies for their adoption and application to distributed business processes. It will provide:

• a new BI experience
• an OS BI qualification,
• alternative business and technology break-through drivers.

Main activities

Main activities are:

• integration of a full stack of OS BI solutions and tools
• promotion of a service network to support the entire stack
• kick-starting a community contributing to strengthen the current OS BI platforms
• creation of a research network on BI topics, fostering a closer cooperation between researchers and OS BI vendors, to promote the development of a new generation of OS BI platforms.

Main topics

First main topics are:

• OS BI State of the art (the vision of the BI Initiative, open methodologies, open source tools)
• BI and Business Process Management (Business Process Control and Monitoring for BI)
• Data quality and integration (quality and security aspects in data management and integration)
• Presentation and personalization (advanced personalization of BI contents, new paradigms for exploiting BI contents)

• Location: France
• Contact: Marc Salleries
• Altic is an open source software integration company created in June of 2004, founder member of the Association des Sociétés de Services en Logiciel Libre in France. Altic assists companies and administration to implement the software management in open source. It works in the business, management and communication solutions domains.

• Location: Luxembourg
• Contacts: Manuel Da Silva, Philippe Petit
• Artemis is specialized in descriptive statistics and offers specific BI solutions to public administrations and other institutional bodies. Being always on the lookout for high-end solutions and better performance, the company puts a lot into the bubbling field of OS BI.

• Location: France
• Contact: Jacky Cuogo

• Location: Italy
• Contacts: Gabriele Ruffatti, Stefano Scamuzzo, Adelina Sperlea
• Engineering is an IT global player and Italy's largest operator in the IT services market, the leading provider of complete integrated offerings throughout the software value chain: design, development, outsourcing services, products and proprietary vertical solutions, IT and strategy consultancy, tailored to the business models of several clients in all markets, such as industrial, banking and telecom sectors. Engineering operates in system integration, using both proprietary and open source solutions, including its open source platforms among which SpagoBI, the Business Intelligence Free Platform.

• Location: U.S.A.
• Contact: Vincent Ducrohet
• Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source database management software and support services. Ingres powers customer success with the flexibility, cost saving, and innovation that are hallmarks of an open source deployment. Ingres supports it customers with a vibrant community and world class support, globally. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres has major development, sales, and support centers throughout the world.

• Location: France
• Contact: Cédric Carbone
• Talend is the first ETL open source software provider for data integration tools. The company offers a completely new vision, both with its technology and its business model. Talend provides solutions that break with the traditional proprietary model by supplying open, innovative and powerful software solutions with the flexibility to meet the needs of companies of all sizes.

• Location: Bologna, Italy
• Contacts: Matteo Golfarelli, Stefano Rizzi
• The University of Bologna was probably the first University in the western world. Its history is one of great thinkers in science and the humanities, making it an indispensable point of reference in the panorama of European culture.

• Location: Milan, Italy
• Contact: Ernesto Damiani
• SESAR is a research lab of the IT Department of the University of Milan. SESAR-LAB's researches mainly focus on the domain of Software Engineering and Knowledge Management. The key emphasis of the research is on distributed approaches to mange data in Informative Systems and on interactions between multiple sources of information and human feedbacks.

• Location: Trento, Italy
• Contacts: Fabio Casati, Yannis Velegrakis
• University of Trento is one of the top universities in Italy. Its Data and Knowledge Management group has a strong interest in efficient and effecting data management solutions that support Business Intelligence.

• Location: Grenoble, France
• Contact: François Letellier
• Freelance consultant, expert and trainer on free/open source software, with a focus on corporate strategy, business models and open innovation.