Tue 28 Feb 2006
DecisionStudio Professional - Desktop BI Platform
Posted by Nishith under BI, Data Mining, Analytics , Data Warehousing , Modeling , Reporting , Open Source Analytics , On Your Own , DecisionStudio-ProfessionalOn Friday we released DecisionStudio Professional - a comprehensive and free desktop BI Platform that gives you all the tools needed for analytics under a single package licensed under GNU Public License (GPL).
DecisionStudio Professional (DSP) is an advanced graphical data mining, reporting, modeling, and analysis environment built on top of the best-of-breed open source projects. Some of these include:
— Optimized MySQL database as data warehouse platform
— SQL Workbench (MySQL Query Browser and DBDesigner) for Data Analysts
— R environment for statistical analysis and modeling
— iReport Reporting GUI and JasperReport reporting library
— Python with Boa Constructor IDE for application and GUI development
DecisionStudio Professional is the only end-to-end open source analytics platform that provides comprehensive capabilities to each role. Data Analysts get to store, process, and publish data on a standard MySQL platform; Reporting Analysts would like iReport and the integration with Office tools; and Modelers would love the excellent R Environment. It also includes Python along with a drag-n-drop GUI building environment for analytics Application Developers.
You can find out more about DecisionStudio Professional at decisionstudio.com, and can download your copy at Sourceforge.net. Click here to download the product brochure (PDF).
Go ahead, it’s completely free and will always stay so. 
March 1st, 2006 at 4:32 am
wow, congratulations! I will download it next week and start comparing it to my very expensive product.
March 1st, 2006 at 6:21 am
Sounds interesting! Any chance of screenshots? Also your pdf link is dead…
March 1st, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Shane,
Thanks for pointing out the dead link. I’ve fixed it now. (What would I do without help from good souls!!)
I’ll try and put up some screenshots on sourceforge and will put out a post when that is done.
Dratz,
:-) Do spend some time with the modeler (R Environment). Our examples are not as good as I would have wanted, and you can try out some of the external links on the Modeler documentation page. I am completely sold on R Environment which is probably the best that is around.
March 2nd, 2006 at 6:23 am
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March 2nd, 2006 at 6:28 am
I installed it an I like it. Lots of packages in there I hadn’t seen before. I haven’t done R before and I like the idea of the Python R integration. However is there a licensing issue with using rpy for your commercial work?
For example if I was a consultant am I allowed to deployed a Rpy solution for a client? I know writing R scripts is allowed under the GPL but by using python you are actually linking against the GPLed Rpy… If this is the case its a real shame, because it will reduce the usefulness of rpy in the real world.
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:04 am
Hmmm… GPL just ensures that as a consultant when you deploy a solution (for free or at a fee) you agree to provide the source code to the client, and cannot prevent the client from making copies and derivative works from your provided solution.
As a consultant this is something you’d anyway be doing for your client.
That’s my understanding, though I am not a legal expert. I’ll figure out some more on this…
Thanks for the post on your blog.
March 6th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Ok maybe I misunderstood. Anyway here is some further feedback:
* iReport was installed without checking for Java!
* Installer could ask if you would like to start MySQL, or even if you would like it started at each reboot.
* Actual software components not listed in the installer?? Could be listed like they appear in the start menu.
* Other ideas for possible inclusion:
* WEKA?
March 6th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Yup, we’ll fix these. And putting a list of software components in the installer is a good idea.
I had toyed with the idea of putting in Weka for quite sometime but finally included R Environment instead. I thought that putting both (R & Weka) together may confuse end-users, as you should be able to do the same things within R. Unless I am missing something…
Whats your thought?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:32 am
I am familiar with Weka but have not done much R, but one thing that stands out to me is the Weka GUI makes it pretty easy to build quick models, while R requires knowledge of R scripting or Rpy.
On the other hand Weka is already easy enough for people to install on Windows. Also I’m not sure how Weka would go putting the results back into a db, for example. It would probably require programming (just as it would for R/Rpy), so maybe R/Rpy is more appropriate for this platform.
March 15th, 2006 at 4:22 am
where is the rss feed for this site?
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March 15th, 2006 at 4:36 am
Hi Dwight,
The feed for the posts is at http://opensourceanalytics.com/feed
Your blog reader should be able to find it on its own.
I am able to subscribe using Sage reader on Firefox. Do let me know if you face any problems.
-N