Here is a link to the recording of yesterday’s beyeconnect chat that took place to discuss the costs associated with free BI:

• Recorded presentation and chat

Luckily organizations can take advantage of free software offerings and get their feet wet and explore different business intelligence solutions.  However, when looking at free solutions it becomes important to remember that depending on the type of solution,  internal infrastructure and development are required to get the system up and running.  For the purpose of the presentation, I used five examples of solutions that are offering different types of free BI offerings (in alphabetical order!):

• InetSoft
• Jaspersoft
• Microstrategy
• Pentaho
• QlikView

Each offers something different and depending on what the business goals of the organization, it might make sense to try a free solution, or compare them, to help identify what works for the company.