Lately more vendors are moving towards the availability of free access to a specific set of their overall offerings. For some this means total access to solutions but with a limited number of users, and for others, this means access to reporting or the ability to pull data from a limited number of data sources. Either way, the affect of open source vendors such as Pentaho, Actuate, and Jaspersoft has been great on the way solution providers expand towards making their solutions more accessible to organizations.
With leading vendors such as QlikView offering free personal use, and Microstrategy with their new reporting suite that offers full functionality for free for up to 100 users, the way in which BI is used and assessed is changing. Most vendors offer free trials to help organizations get up and running, but with the availability of these new free solutions, will limited trials continue to be enough to satiate users and provide long term value to companies?
Only time will tell -- what is happening, however, is that BI is slowly shifting so that smaller organizations or organizations with a small number of BI users to access and develop their own solutions for limited or no cost.
"develop their own solutions for limited or no cost": I highly doubt that. Licensing typically accounts for about 10-20% of the lifetime costs of a BI solution.Development, maintenance, support, infrastructure: it all costs money. There's no free ride, sorry.
Posted by: Jos van Dongen | July 21, 2009 at 02:38 PM
This change will really helps the SME's to get hands on in BI,also cost wise it is very easy for them to afford.In my opinion this will really helps them to kick start their BI Projects asap bcoz of the change in the licensing model.By this way the BI Vendors can capture some market value as well.
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Vendor wants to get more sales to their product. So they also need some free access so that they can increase their sales. However vendor in 2011 are using mainly the social media. It helps them more growth to their business.
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