Poor Man’s BI: Getting Started with Open Source Tools for Analytic Intelligence « Rohmad Hidayat's Blog. Article published in DMReview.com June 1, 2006, By Steve Miller source: In his award-winning book The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman argues convincingly that open sourcing is one of 10 significant “flatteners” changing the world. Though much of that disruption is just now starting to play out in the market, it’s safe to say that the open source software movement is no longer at the fringes of the technology. While open source communities are thriving, businesses building on the open source model are just starting to hit their stride, struggling with strategies of how to make money surrounding “free” products.
Consider a minimal architecture for BI, an architecture that, while not complete, can certainly deliver valuable startup intelligence to an enterprise. The Python/PostgreSQL/OpenOffice/R BI platform presents a maturity that will be comforting to users of poor man’s BI. Python Open source is now established as an IT force. Python-Based Data Analysis Library and Platform. Slides about Mining Massive Datasets from Stanford University. Django-replication. Project is now located at: This project started by my necessity to replicate & aggregate from many Oracle databases to one MySQL database. I was provided only with read-only access to the Oracle servers & databases. So far django_replicate can do Master-Slave replication in the following manner: one-to-one table, many-to-one (fan-in) and one-to-many (fan-out) incremental replication. Differential replication with deletes & updates and full snapshot support is in the works.
Django_replicate can be added as a Django app to an existing project or as a stand alone program. All configuration for django_replicate is done through the django admin interface. Logging is done using the python logging facility so sending the logs to diferent destination is easy, by default logs are sent to the console and to an internal table using a custom logging handler. Python Excels " Python Excel Mini Cookbook. Blingalytics.readthedocs. Hollywood Star Sighting: Blingalytics. At the SemTech San Francisco 2011 conference, Chris Testa of Adly spoke about a platform they used internally for Business Intelligenge analytics.
There was great interest from the audience, and this week, Adly announced the release of “Blingalytics” as free, open-source software. While not explicitly semantic itself, Blingalytics works WITH Adly’s semantic system, serving as the underlying billing and business intelligence infrastructure they use to manage the business.
I caught up with the Adly team (Arnie Gullov-Singh, CEO; Chris Testa, Director, Engineering; and Krista Thomas, VP Marketing) to hear more about the platform. Q: So what is Blingalytics? A: Simply put, Blingalytics is the first and only open source business intelligence platform in Python. The Blingalytics Python package makes it easy to slice and dice your business KPIs, no matter what data you’re looking at: retweets, click-through rates, net revenue, etc. Blingalytics was built by Chris Testa and Jeff Schenck. Bi with django. Adly/blingalytics - GitHub.