Open source Business Intelligence (BI) suites now offer mature feature sets comparable to their commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) counterparts. Use this total cost of ownership (TCO) comparison tool to establish the open source software (OSS) cost as a base case and determine the cost difference between the two licensing options.
The tool includes the following components:
- Cost categories overview.
- Sample TCO information.
- TCO calculator.
- TCO comparison graph.
Use this download as a component of the BI planning process.
This downloadable tool is associated with the research note, “BI: It's Not Just About Data Warehouses.”