The company’s new OpenQuick Suite offering comprises of best practice elements — OpenPlan, OpenExplore, OpenDash, and Open Pilot — that hand hold customers through the trickier aspects of data warehouse integration, analytics, and performance management services.
OpenQuick Suite, as its name suggests, does this quickly and for a low, fixed cost.
The OpenPlan service directly feeds into a go forward opportunity roadmap that reviews a company’s existing BI portfolio and recommends an adoption strategy. It typically lasts three weeks.
OpenExplore is a two-week exploratory BI workshop that uses the R open source statistical and graphics language to formulate key performance metrics with an emphasis on visual interpretation.
OpenDash builds an analytic dashboard using a combination of Pentaho Corp’s and JBoss Inc’s open source dashboarding and portal software. Users can drill through to OLAP and parameterized/canned report data in a data mart directly from the dashboard. Open Dash is a four week effort
Finally OpenPilot, an eight week engagement, adds data integration capabilities, courtesy of Pentaho’s open source ETL software to Open Dash, to design and build a star schema data mart.
OpenBI, which is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, said it launched its OpenQuick Suite as a response to what is sees as accelerated demand and adoption of open source BI technologies, particularly at the mid and lower end of the market.
OpenBI’s services-led approach is unusual because it spans across multiple open source BI technologies, in effect configuring and integrating them to work together as part of a custom built BI system complete with front-end analysis tools and a back-end data mart.
The prospect of a short-term BI engagement at an attractive price point makes OpenQuick Suite especially appealing to small and medium sized businesses that are looking to implement BI on a shoestring budget. But OpenBI also claims to be going after larger Global 2000 firms that are now starting to dabble in open source BI, initially at a departmental level.
OpenQuick Suite provides a tangible starting point for customers regardless of their level of experience with either BI or open source technology, said Steve Miller, co-founder and president of OpenBI.
