Open Source Business Intelligence Platforms for Engineering Education

and Communication Technologies (ICT) are critical to improve the competitiveness of European education and industry and to meet the demands of its society and economy. In this paper we describe and evaluated the six major open source platforms for Business Intelligence: JasperSoft, OpenI, Palo, Pentaho, SpagoBI and Vanilla. With those open source platforms, computer science master students can test and modify the software, simulating real enterprise environments and improving their competences. Therefore, we show which are the best free solutions available to exploit by higher education institutions (HEI) in order to enhance engineering education using new open source technologies.