Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens

Re:Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens by mobileexpert on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:33PM (#37661811)

Cool. Rolling your own BI seems fraught with peril at most orgs where I imagine the buy vs build decision is always buy. How many PowerBI or Tableau seats do you need before rolling your own internal BI platform starts to make sense?

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Re:Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens by htrp on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:49PM (#37662083)

I don't think it ever makes sense because the large players will always be able to make new innovations (mobile apps, natural language querying, SSO integrations, etc) that, short of large corps hiring BI teams to invest in the open source ecosystem like superset, your open source solution won't have.

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Re:Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens by mritchie712 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @05:11PM (#37665860)

Yeah, unless your at unicorn scale, I don't see how self-hosting BI would ever make sense relative to other investments you could make.

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Re:Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens by totalhack on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:57PM (#37665020)

I must like to live dangerously. In all seriousness though there are low cost alternatives to those mega BI tools that suit many use cases. If I wasn't rolling my own I'd probably start with Metabase or Superset. What I use: https://github.com/totalhack/zillion

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