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I have worked in BI most of my life and concur with your sentiments. I have a slightly different take on the whole commercial vs Open Source. I think organisati

I have worked in BI most of my life and concur with your sentiments. I have a slightly different take on the whole commercial vs Open Source. I think organisations should embrace both and make them both first class citizens. In BI space I would say go with Tableau/Power BI/Cognos for all your day to day dashboards and reporting but don't try use Tableau to create printed reports (still requirement in some industries). Tableau wasn't designed to create print PDF reports. Go with an Open Source solution like Jasper Reports[0] or BIRT[1] to create the printed reports. The essence of what I am saying is companies should use Open Source to fill in gaps not covered by the commercial software. Commercial software is good for end users. Commercial companies provide manuals and training is available from partner organisations. This means a lot for none technical users. [0]https://community.jaspersoft.com/ https://community.jaspersoft.com/ [1]https://www.eclipse.org/birt/ https://www.eclipse.org/birt/

Vaslo 7y ago
Any reporting software like this based in Python?
- mmsimanga 7y ago
  I am not aware of tools similar to BIRT and Jasper Reports in Python. My observation is the world has moved on from Crystal Reports type tools to Tableau like tools. BIRT and Jasper Reports were created at a time when Java was dominant and I don't see anyone creating similar tools going forward. That's my two cents.
- ironchef 7y ago
  There's a few like: * superset - by maxime (of airflow, etc....) ..word on the street is some big changes are going on with this * dash by plotly
kfk 7y ago
Yes for things that are easy to isolate like dashboards and pdf reports buying solutions is good. But for things that need orchestration of various tools open source tends to work better for me.
- tomrod 7y ago
  I think the key point here is isolation. Often presenting dashboards and reports lead to more questions than the isolating infrastructure can reasonably manage.

Vaslo 7y ago

Any reporting software like this based in Python?

mmsimanga 7y ago
I am not aware of tools similar to BIRT and Jasper Reports in Python. My observation is the world has moved on from Crystal Reports type tools to Tableau like tools. BIRT and Jasper Reports were created at a time when Java was dominant and I don't see anyone creating similar tools going forward. That's my two cents.
ironchef 7y ago
There's a few like: * superset - by maxime (of airflow, etc....) ..word on the street is some big changes are going on with this * dash by plotly

kfk 7y ago

Yes for things that are easy to isolate like dashboards and pdf reports buying solutions is good. But for things that need orchestration of various tools open source tends to work better for me.

tomrod 7y ago
I think the key point here is isolation. Often presenting dashboards and reports lead to more questions than the isolating infrastructure can reasonably manage.