Business intelligence
Open source BI options are pretty slim pickings, but the contenders are top notch. We lean to over JasperSoft in recognition of its fleet of well-crafted modules for reporting and dashboards, data integration (via the Pentaho Kettle ETL integration engine), data analysis (thanks to the OLAP server), and advanced data mining (with the addition of the ). End-users like the browser-based, self-help wizards that simplify creating and generating reports, and there are good tools for automating delivery via e-mail and portal access and formatting to HTML, Excel, and PDF.

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