The document discusses innovation in open source business intelligence. It summarizes recent developments in areas like big data, data visualization, mobile BI, and GPU acceleration. Open source tools like Talend, SpagoBI, Palo, and Jedox are advancing capabilities for handling large datasets, interactive visualization, and faster calculations. The presentation encourages using open source solutions to address evolving business needs through flexible architectures and by taking advantage of open data and analytics progress.

1. Open Source Business Intelligence
Where is the innovation ?
Marc Sallières, Altic
A concrete point on Innovation in Open
Source Business Intelligence : trends,
technologies and feedbacks from our first
project : Big Data, GPU, Datavizualisation
with Talend, SpagoBI and Palo.
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

2. What's new in Open Source BI ?
BIG DATA ●
Talend BIG DATA
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Séminaire Aristote « Big Data : how to take advantage of this
opportunity? »
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Structure Data 2011 (USA)
Technologies ready to handle large volumes of data.
DATA ●
SpagoBI 3.0 release
VISUALIZATION ●
Visual Decision Forum's 11 & Business Datavis Think Tanks
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Data Viz Challenge winner : visualize your taxes (USA)
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Concours BIME : Proposez le meilleur tableau de bord !
How to take advantage of data visualization progress?
SEARCH ENGINE ●
Mozilla uses Elastic Search for Mozilla Metric
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Use an external search engine to index Data for Business
Intelligence
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

3. What's new in Open Source BI ?
MOBILE BI ●
SpagoBi Mobile for tablets and smartphones' web browsers
(apple, android..)
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Palo Mobile for iOS & Android
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JasperSoft Mobile Business Intelligence Ipad & Iphone
A practical use related to nomadism and real time.
GPU Jedox (Palo) makes OLAP faster thanks to the power of the
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CALCULATION GPU.
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

4. The main roads of innovation
We shall remember :
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Prepare the way for Open Data and Other Data in the businesses
information systems.
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Seek simplicity and interactivity for the end user while keeping the
relevance and reliability of decision-making system.
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Devise flexible and quickly deployable architectures to answer
constantly evolving needs and data sources.
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

5. Who is Altic ?
Pioneer in Open Source Business Intelligence for french SMEs.
Certified Partner of the major publishers in the world Open
Source Business Intelligence and Data Management
3 R&D projects on data and BI
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Large volumes of data
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Datavisualization
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Semantic Web
Assembling alternative and innovative solutions to meet our
customers'needs. Piece together the best components and
applications.
Been present and working at the Open Data Camp, Crunch My
Data Camp , Dataviz etc
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

6. eFraud Box
Address internet fraud (detection engine, investigative tools).
EfraudBox is an ANR project in collaboration with the GIE Cartes
Bancaires, Thales, KXEN, Paris laboratories LIP6, LIP13 and LIPN, the
National Gendarmerie and the Judicial Police.
Technologies used by Altic : Hadoop, Mahout, Rhipe, SpagoBI, Palo GPU...
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

7. External
Development Tools
Data Autre
BI
Files
RDBS
NO SQL
Not Only SQL
Logs
Contextual
BI
Data
Platform
Legacy : ERP,
DataWarehouse
CRM, SCM, HR
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

8. Manage large volumes of data
Hadoop
Who's using it and how ?
● LinkedIn: project Voldemort, used to
predicts people who potentially know
you
● Dynamic Journey: analyse and predicte
road traffic
● New York Time: conversion of all its
archive in pdf
● Visa: Fraud analysis
● Yahoo: search engine, anti-spam
….
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

9. Speeding calculations
Palo Accelerator (GPU)
● Acquisition of 2 GPU machines Carri System
● Loading of 43 million lines (GIE data for 1 month)
● Presentation on Palo dashboard in a cube with 120 million lines
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

10. Visualization with the right tools
InfiniDB
Gephi / Tulip
MySql
HADOOP
GIE CB Hive / Pig OpenStreetMap
PostGreSql
Talend Big Data Agrégations
PALO BI Suite
GPU
Oracle / SAS
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.

11. Conclusion
● Open Source really is an opportunity for the big
challenges ahead.
● Open Source is ready
● Now let's explain to customers when and why
use these technologies
OW2Con 2011, November 23-24, Orange Labs, Paris.
www.ow2.org.