OpenReports vs The Competition
I started the OpenReports project to provide an application that could generate dynamic reports, specifically JasperReports, through a browser based interface. Over the last 4 years, OpenReports has grown significantly, in both scope and popularity, largely without any open source competitors.
In the last year or two, the open source business intelligence market has changed a great deal with JasperSoft, Pentaho, and Actuate introducing open source bi tools that compete, at least in some aspects, with OpenReports. Despite the publicity given to these companies and their products, OpenReports has continued to do well and even seems to be gaining popularity.
Now that OpenReports 1.0 has been released and work has started on the next generation of OpenReports, it would be interesting to get some feedback from people who are choosing among the various open source bi tools.
What factors are most important to you when choosing an open source bi tool? Features, stability, ease of use, maturity? Or is the support and backing of a well funded company such as JasperSoft or Pentaho the most important factor?
6 comments May 3rd, 2006
