I have been starting to really look at alternatives to the traditional BI tools. The one that most enterprise IT departments roll out to support massive amounts of data and users like Cognos, Business Objects cost plenty and take months and sometimes years to design build and implement a system. I wanted to see what was out in the market that could meet a few modest goals:

Total cost of ownership had to be much less than the enterprise products

Far easier to development and build out

Have something usable in less time

Make the user in control

I started [...]

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