3-4 years ago BI was the top priority for CIOs of almost all medium/large enterprises while small companies couldn’t catch up due to massive costs.
So I did research in order find out whether Open Source BI actually saves money and facilitates BI rollout in small companies. The answer was – “not quite”. It turned out that the major part of the cost is implementation. With affordable commercial BI solutions like Microsoft BI, cost of the software is miniature in comparison to the implementation costs. Another finding was that implementation using internal resources is actually cheaper than using 3rd parties.
Recently I have got an opportunity to check current situation. Pentaho London User Group (PLUG) meetup which took place last week had more than 40 participants. It was surprising to see so much interest in Open Source BI so I decided to conduct a small survey. After quick chat with Tom (one of the PLUG founders) we came up with the following questions (original questionnaire can be downloaded here): read more…
Finally I finished my master’s thesis research which I was doing at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology). Hardest part was to stop improving it. Thesis is in the Business Intelligence (BI) area and entitled “Business Intelligence for Small Enterprises: An Open Source Approach” read more…
Bəlkə bu hadisə bəzilərinizin başına gəlmişdir: Siz online whois xidməti vasitəsilə keyfiyyətli boş bir domen adı tapırsınız (e.g. www.coolname.com). Bir neçə gün sonra bank kartınızı hazırlayıb onu almaq üçün təkrar həmin sayta qayıdıb görürsünüz ki domen artıq tutulub. Shit!… read more…
This is the review of the most interesting practices of eXtreme Programming described in Kent Beck’s 2nd edition of “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change” book. read more…
Developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) and released to public in May, 2004, BPMN specification has a number of key goals. The primary goal of BPMN was to provide a notation that understandable by all business users including business analysts, technical staff and all other business people involved in particular process. While at that time a number of notations achieving same goal, like UML Activity Diagram already existed, BPMN addressed another important goal – visualization of business process executable languages such as BPML and BPEL. read more…
İnternetdə olan informasiyanın artımı insanların internetdə keçirdiyi vaxtın çoxalması ilə müşayət olunur. Digər tərəfdən də günümüzdə hər hansı bir şirkətin internetdə səhifəsinin olmaması onun imicində böyük əksiklik kimi qəbul edilir. Bütün bunlar bir çox şirkətləri öz xidmət və məhsullarını veb səhifələrində yerləşdirib digər internet resurslarında reklam etməyə məcbur edir. read more…
Wikipedia – 100-dən artıq dildə olan 2,000,000 məqalədən və 13,000 aktiv istifadəçidən ibarət açıq ensiklopediyadır. Dünyada qazandığı inanılmaz populyarlıq nəticəsində bu rəqəmlər sürətlə artmaqdadır. Dillərin arasında Azərbaycan dilinin də olduğuna baxmayaraq ensiklopediyanın ana dilimizdə olan hissəsi olduqca kasıbdır. Ümidvaram ki, oxuyacağınız məqalə bu layihəyə olan diqqəti artıraraq, Azərbaycan dilində zəngin bir online ensiklopediyanın yaranmasına kömək edəcək. read more…
Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan is preparing to install new computers running Linux in high schools.
President of Azerbaijan recently signed an order titled “ICT Implementation Programme in Azerbaijan High Schools (2005-2007)”. According to the document $20M in total is provisioned for this project. Project involves installation of new computers in 4521 high schools countrywide. Thus, by the end of the project one computer will be available for each 33 school students. read more…
The second phase of World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took place in Tunis from 16 to 18 November 2005. Azerbaijan was represented by the delegation headed by Mr. Ali Abbasov, Minister of Communications and IT. Delegation consisted of governmental, commercial and non-profit (AIF) sector representatives. read more…
Different operating systems use different approaches to track daylight saving time (DST). Unfortunately, almost all well known operating systems have incorrect daylight saving rules for Azerbaijan (capital Baku). As the level of enterprise in Azerbaijan grows, it is becoming necessary to keep track of the precise time. It is especially critical when it comes to banking, telecommunication and other enterprises, which require the correct time for billing operations or similar. This document provides a solution for the mentioned problem on a wide range of UNIX and Windows operating systems. read more…