It also gathers a variety of open source intelligence and employs numerous agents around the world.

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Naveh says a lot of the work the company does is so-called open source intelligence, with trained experts using computing and other technological tools to connect the dots of information that are already in the public domain, particularly on the Internet and social networks.

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Intelligence agencies are increasingly interested in mining open-source intelligence, particularly online, but the proliferation of voices, whether on social networks, blogs, or elsewhere, can be challenging to make sense of.

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Pentaho is an open source business intelligence and big data analytics company that was founded by five deeply nerdy people.

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Over 16 million people have downloaded our business intelligence suite, and our open source community has over 350, 000 members.

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Open-source firms are flourishing in databases (Ingres, for instance), business intelligence (JasperSoft), customer-relationship management and other business applications (SugarCRM, Alfresco).

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