Roadmap of SpagoBI, the only 100% open source, complete and flexible business intelligence suite

The purpose of SpagoBI project team is to govern the evolutionary lines of the solution defined upon the requests coming from the users' community, clients, developers and integrators. We think that in this way the integration is effective, as it comes from "real" needs. SpagoBI team puts all its efforts in inserting these demands in a coherent vision adding equally innovative applications coming from its own experience as well as from the academic and research fields.

The roadmap is updated by the Project Leader at the beginning of every year and it's verified every six months. The team can endure variations, in order to enrich the roadmap with important suggestions or demands coming from the community.

SpagoBI 4: a turning point in Open Source BI

SpagoBI 2013 roadmap is ready! SpagoBI 4 version marks a turning point in the continuous growth of the 100% open source Business Intelligence suite. A brand new appeal, higher usability and several innovative features will make SpagoBI the next Open Source Information Management suite.

Hot topics include:

• Big Data: derive maximum value from large amounts of heterogeneous data. In a few words: Volume, Variety, Velocity to generate Value.
• In-memory analysis: access the right information in a quick, easy and effective way, supporting reliable and smart decision-making.
• Self-service BI: democratize Business Intelligence, enabling everyone to self-perform analysis on their data and produce their BI analytical documents quickly and easily, through user-friendly and highly usable BI tools.

Detailed roadmap

SpagoBI Server

Brand new appeal

• For end-users: smarter layout, new focus on self-service functionalities
• For administrators and BI developers: more intuitive and easy-to-use portal layout.

• For end-users:
  • new graphic user interface, new paradigm for document executions, everything accessible with a single click
  • data mining with R
  • Worksheet reviewed for ergonomics
  • QbE reviewed for ergonomics
  • performance improvements.
• For administrators and BI developers:
  • new graphic user interface, to effectively manage SpagoBI repository, analytical documents, resources, analytical models, behavioural models, end-user menu
  • new catalogs for business Models and OLAP cube
  • technical and public data sets
  • free categorization of data sets and business models
  • improvements on import/export functionality
  • extensible data sources and data sets
  • pluggable engine
  • basic integration with SAP
  • distribution review.

• For end-users:
  • new explorative analytical documents based on non-structured and heterogeneous data
  • network analysis.
• For administrators and BI developers:
  • smart analysis and management of large amounts of heterogeneous data
  • data sources and datasets over Hive, HBase and Cassandra
  • semantic interrogations
  • real-time analysis on data streaming.

• For end-users:
  • new capability to develop and modify BI documents with a few clicks, characterized by a higher level of simplicity, flexibility and scalability.
• For administrators and BI developers:
  • new administration tools to manage in-memory analysis features, including a wizard for the creation of datasets from a database or files.

• For end-users:
  • new wizard for custom data sources (XLS, CSV, TXT)
  • Worksheet engine supporting the development of private reports.
• For administrators: local storage of custom data sets.

• For end-users: more interactive and complete tables, charts and cockpits on mobile devices.

• For administrators: new multi-tenant management console.

SpagoBI Meta/Studio

• New OLAP designer.

SpagoBI SDK

• Concurrent development.