SQL Power Group Inc. announced today the general release of its latest Open source Business Intelligence tool - the SQL Power Wabit! - a truly intuitive reporting tool.

Unlike most proprietary or Open Source BI Tools that have preceded it, SQL Power Wabit is an intuitive Ad-Hoc Reporting tool geared specifically to business users. It does not require any knowledge of SQL or any other programming language - finally delivering on the long awaited BI promise of end-user self-sufficiency!

For years, Business Intelligence projects were cost-justified by promising end-user self sufficiency and offloading BI Reporting and decision support functions to business users that need near real time decision making capabilities.

Unfortunately shortly after implementation, Business Users and IT quickly discovered that the promise was at best a mirage. Shortly after attending their BI Tool training sessions, business users quickly got frustrated by their newly acquired BI Reporting skills - mainly due to the fact that these supposedly "easy-to-use" BI tools were still far too complex for the average non-IT user. This complexity, along with their infrequent use of these tools, resulted in fairly quick erosion of the BI training, rendering millions of decision makers lost at the wheels of their newly acquired BI tool.

But as they say in the biz, the show must go on and management reports still need to be generated. This forced Business Groups to either hire power-users (IT people in disguise) in the various departments whose sole function is to generate reports for other users/decision-makers, or turned back to IT and said "Hey IT, have we got a bunch of reporting requests for you!" thus eroding every ounce of ROI and decision-maker self-sufficiency that was ever promised, and saddling IT with the very expensive task of delivering these reports in a non-timely fashion!

In releasing SQL Power Wabit, SQL Power has put the decison-making tool back in the decision-makers' hands, and is single-handedly trying to deliver to business intelligence environments the long awaited ROI that comes along with business users' self-sufficiency.

"By releasing this software for free, we are reducing the barriers to world-wide use of this intuitive business intelligence tool," says Sam Selim, President of SQL Power (and long time end-user reporting advocate). "Now business users everywhere can access their data and in seconds derive timely information that is pertinent to their day-to-day decision making. It's like learning how to drive once again, there is such freedom and happiness that comes along with self-sufficiency."

Individuals and companies can download the SQL Power Wabit for free at
http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/wabit