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A first beta version of the Libre Office productivity suite for Android devices is planned for March

Two companies have started working on a full-featured version of the free office suite LibreOffice for Android. They hope to have a beta version available in March.

It's too soon to say what features will be included in the beta version, said Italo Vignoli, spokesman at the Document Foundation, which leads the development. A series of beta builds with increasing advanced functionality will then be released over time. The foundation didn't say when it expected LibreOffice for Android to become generally available.

U.K. open source software company Collabora and Spanish Free Software consultancy Igalia have been handed the task of developing the technical framework, following a tender that was presented in September.

Once the beta software is available, the foundation hopes users will download and play with the application, and provide their feedback to help improve the quality of the software, Vignoli said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Last week saw the release of LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets users read Microsoft Office, Google Docs and Open Document Format files on their smartphones and tablets. That tens of thousands of people have already downloaded it confirms there is an interest for OpenOffice on Android, Vignoli said.

The app uses the same engine as LibreOffice for desktops and a new front-end based on Firefox for Android.

In general, interest for Office apps for Google's operating system has been growing. In addition to LibreOffice, Microsoft is working on Office for Android tablets. Preview versions of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps are available to download from Google Play. So far, Word is the most popular of the three apps, with between 100,000 and 500,000 installs.

Dropbox also wants in on the action, and acquired Israeli company CloudOn last week to help it add Office functionality to its apps.

Other already existing options are Google's own apps and Mobile Systems' OfficeSuite. The growing interest can only be good for users, since increased competition usually results in better products.

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(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. will offer free data-analysis tools and make them easier to use and set up, seeking to attract more business-software customers.

Power BI, which is used daily by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, competes with software from Tableau Software Inc., International Business Machines Corp.s Watson Analytics and Salesforce.com Inc.s Analytics Cloud. Tens of thousands of companies use it to analyze business operations and finances.

Up to now, Microsoft has been charging at least $33 a month for Power BI and requiring the latest version of Excel and a subscription to Office 365 online apps. Last week, Microsoft bought Revolution Analytics to bolster the business and is investing heavily and looking at both acquisitions and organic growth, said James Phillips, general manager for the product.

We are tripling down on our investment, Phillips said.

The market for business intelligence and analytics software is projected to expand to $21.4 billion in 2018 from $14.8 billion in 2014, according to IDC, as companies look for ways to easily gain insights for reams of data being collected from other business applications, websites, mobile devices and sensors. The new Power BI will be able to pull data from all of those sources.

It is the cockpit through which business users can get analytics for all of the information they have, whatever kind of data and wherever it sits, Phillips said. Microsoft was the No. 3 player by sales in the market in 2013, behind SAP AG and IBM, according to IDC. While Tableau ranked seventh, its the fastest growing and jumped 84 percent in 2013.

The new service can pull data from Microsoft products and a variety of other sources such as Salesforce, GitHub and Marketo Inc. to create dashboards that update in real time.

Power BI is also available from Tuesday in a public preview for Apple Inc.s iPad and a web-based version. An iPhone app comes out next month and Android and Windows versions will follow some time in the first half. It takes about five minutes for a user to set up the new service, Phillips said. Microsoft will still offer a pay version of Power BI with additional corporate features.

Phillips, who founded three startups, including database company Couchbase Inc., joined Microsoft in 2012 after Nadella, then head of Microsofts cloud unit, recruited him to help bring more of a entrepreneurial ethos to Microsoft. Phillips took the job because his first company, which he founded at age 17, wrote backup tools for Microsoft DOS 2.0.

That was back when Microsoft was a startup, Phillips said. To join Microsoft at a point in time when this company needs to be a startup again was an opportunity I couldnt refuse, he said.

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