What are good online communities/portals about Bus

Question

I am looking for a communities, portals, and bloggers(?) that could help me to keep up to date with the newest technology, trends, and knowledge about Business Intelligence, Predictive analysis, etc. I am asking this question, because there is a lot sites about this topic but most of them seem to be affiliated with some companies that sell this kind of solutions. So it is hard to recognize if an article is a marketing material.

Answer 1

I'll jump in as Pentaho was listed above. The Business Intelligence Guy is a Windward blog (disclaimer - I'm one of the contributors). It has about 50% posts on general B.I. topics and 50% posts about our new B.I. product.

Answer 2

I follow Curt Monash's DBMS2.com blog - he's an analyst with years of experience in the BI field.

Answer 3

Surprised no one has mentioned slashdot! They now have a dedicated BI section to their site - pretty impressive stuff and shows the incredible growth in this area. It was launched a couple of weeks ago.

If you can focus your interest on a particular suite it may be easier - a lot of blogs do seem to be product oriented..

The linkedin groups are good too - but again, you get a lot of product centric people there, who are perhaps only best to answer specific product questions, not general BI questions.

Answer 4

http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/ by Roland Bouman, author of Pentaho Solutions.

Answer 5

There are several business intelligence related groups on LinkedIn you can follow:

Microsoft Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Group

Business Intelligence Professionals

The full list is here

Answer 6

I've found quite a good site, with a helpful community behind, in spanish

have a look at:

http://www.redopenbi.com/

they specialize on floss bi solutions