I know it's a bit late but anyway: the pictures of the OSBI 2010 are online now. You can find them on our Facebook page. There was also a review about the OSBI 2010 which you can find here .

Here is just a short review about the OSBI 2010 last week in Neustadt, Germany. The event took place in the beautiful Hambacher Schloss which is a historically really important place since here 30,000 people gathered in 1832 in order to define principles of freedom which ultimately led to birth of democracy in Germany.

I opened the day with a short introduction (see the picture below) and introduced Konstantin Böhm of Ancud IT who made a really great talk comparing the revolution of 1832 in Hambach with the IT-revolution we experience right now. This was a good start for this year's OSBI - thanks Konstantin!

After Konstantin's talk, the parallel sessions started. We had a couple of great talks in the big plenum and in parallel there were several workshops in which the current state of open source business intelligence solutions was demonstrated.

In one and a half of these workshops, we demonstrated our new solution RapidAnalytics , which is the first open source business analytics solution ever and comes with a complete server setup and web-based access and report designer. We got a lot of discussions and questions after the demonstration of RapidAnalytics - most of the questions were about the integration of data mining and predictive analytics in business processes and into reports, which both is child's play for RapidAnalytics.

We are glad that many of the participants already liked RapidAnalytics so much. We will release the Community Edition of RapidAnalytics next week so that you can soon check out some of its features yourself. Of course we are happy to give interested customers also an in-depth demonstration of the abilities of the Enterprise Edition of RapidAnalytics as well - just contact us if you are interested.

Below you can see the Rapid-I crew which visited the OSBI 2010. From left: Sebastian Loh, Dr. Simon Fischer, Nadja Mierswa, myself (Dr. Ingo Mierswa), Tobias Malbrecht, Helge Homburg, Christian Brabandt, and Ralf Klinkenberg.

We ended the day with a talk of Olaf Laber about Ingres VectorWise. Together with Ingres. we have shown the integration of RapidAnalytics and Ingres VectorWise in one of the workshops before (amazing: we reduced the time for the in-database-induction of a decision tree from 9 minutes to 15 seconds just by using VectorWise). In his talk, Olaf has presented some very interesting details of VectorWise and - as always when people hear about this fascinating technology for a first time - he quickly got a lot of discussion about the benefits of Ingres VectorWise.

We had an amazing program and we got a lot of positive comments for organizing this event. It was a lot of work but the day really was fun and I met so many wonderful people and exchanged a lot of ideas. Finally, I would also like to thank our partners Actuate, Ancud IT, Ingres, Jaspersoft, Jedox, Talend, and viadee for their participation and support!

Ok, I suppose most of our frequent readers are pretty aware that we will have another big event coming soon (after our real successful first community meeting and RapidMiner conference RCOMM in September of this year, here is part 2 of the report ).

The next big event is called OSBI 2010 which stands for Open Source Business Intelligence Day 2010.  Last year, the OSBI was a great success. Together with our partners Ancud IT, Avantgarde Labs, Ingres, Jaspersoft, Talend, and viadee we offered an impressive program for about 100 participants and got a very positive feedback.

This year, the partner line up is almost the same, but we also got our new partners Actuate, who created the BI solution Birt and Jedox with their solution PALO on board. This led to an equally impressive program which can be checked out here:

Program of OSBI 2010

As you have seen yesterday, Rapid-I also has a surprise to offer for the OSBI 2010: we will demonstrate for the very first time the complete business analytics solution called RapidAnalytics. And we will also show its combination with the exciting new database Ingres VectorWise which really accelerates data access and analysis.

So, this is the last time I will remember you about this event. Don't say you didn't know about this after you missed it ;-)

Instead, take your chance and get one of the last available tickets for the OSBI 2010 and be there when we, our partners, and our customers and users demonstrate the latest results and possibilities for open source business intelligence applications!

More information and online registration at

http://www.osbi2010.de

Other posts about the OSBI 2010:

• RapidAnalytics released at OSBI 2010
• OSBI 2010 News
• OSBI 2010 Blog Post
  

Rapid-I is happy to organize the second Open Source Business Intelligence Day (OSBI 2010) on December 8th, 2010 at the beautiful castle Hambacher Schloss in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany.

The OSBI 2010 is a place where analysts and decision makers can meet and exchange their experiences with open source solutions for data warehouses, ETL, OLAP, Reporting, and Data Mining. The event is supported by our partners Actuate (BIRT), AncudIT, Ingres, Jaspersoft, Jedox (PALO), Talend, and viadee, among them all leading providers for open source business intelligence solutions.

Since the number of participants is restricted we recommend to register early for this event. The program as well as an online registration form are now available on the OSBI 2010 web site (German only).

We would be happy to meet you at the OSBI 2010. Take the opportunity and get information about the Open Source BI solutions

• Jaspersoft,
• Pentaho,
• PALO,
• BIRT,
• Talend, and
  
• RapidMiner / RapidAnalytics
  

and benefit from the experiences of other companies which already successfully deployed open source BI solutions. As you can see, the focus of the OSBI 2010 is on:

• database systems, data warehouses and data quality,
• data integration and ETL,
• reporting and OLAP,
• data mining and predictive analytics.

The OSBI 2010 provides you the opportunity to gather information in lectures, experience reports, workshops, and success stories about relevant and crucial aspects of business intelligence. You can meet the vendors at their information desks in order to get more information about their products. Additionally, coffee breaks and the flying buffet give you more chances for inspiring discussions and personal exchange of experiences.

I am looking forward to meeting many of you again at OSBI 2010! The program as well as an online registration form can be found at

OSBI 2010 web site