Make PPS Planning Open Source
- PPS Planning is a gem of a framework for CPM. Virtually, any vertical can be modeled in that using modeler and business rules. I am aghast and really sad at the news of its being discontinued. It is like killing a baby which started talking, singing, running and jumping within one year of its birth.
Why don't we make it Open Source instead of killing it. We all would take care of it.
- Edited byAjit_Singh Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:19 PMSpelling correction
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- Would major corprations invest in a system such as PPS Planning if it were Open Source? Anyone care to chime in?
My Ramblings @ http://alanwhitehouse.wordpress.com Hi, I have also some experience from running an OpenSource oriented company (OpenSource BI).
Yes they would if the community behind it was large, this means that many developers are contributing. If you look at solutions like the ones from Eclipse, Jaspersoft or Pentaho this is the case, with 1000 of contributors to the projects, another important aspect is that there should be a commercial company behind the project like for example RedHat behind Linux, and they manage the builds and releases etc.
BUT, normally open source solutions are built on opne source tecnology like java, apache, JBOSS and databases as MYSQL and Postgres. I have never heard av an opensource solution based on SQL Server Enterprise edition!
(if you are curious: www.osbiforums.com)
- Ideally, Microsoft should have provided enabling/disabling some features in PPS which would have allowed the usage of even Standard Edition of SQL Server. Using some features of enterprise edition of Analysis Server is forcing the entire application to use SQL Server enterprise edition.
Regarding technology, since PPS makes heavy usage of Analysis Services / Reporting Services, i don't think there is a technology alternative. I tried my best to replicate a SSAS cube with parent child dimension, rollup operator, MDX Scripts, partitions in Open Source Mondrian and SSAS is light years ahead of it.
If sufficient number of companies / developers have already committed to PPS, I wonder why a open source PPS Planning should not work even if it uses commercial technologies inside it and there is no other open source technology alternatives available to it.
- Edited byAjit_Singh Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:36 AMspelling correction
