I am on the fringes of BI at my company, and do not claim to be an expert. But to me, the value in the BI suites is not the UI, nor the platform on which BI run

I am on the fringes of BI at my company, and do not claim to be an expert. But to me, the value in the BI suites is not the UI, nor the platform on which BI runs. It is the integration points to everything else. This article told me very little about that aspect of the open source tools.