Pentaho BI is an open source application software for enterprise reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities for business intelligence needs. The company was founded in 2004 by a team of business intelligence(BI) industry veterans.
Pentaho Reporting is a collection of open source projects primarily focused on the creation, generation and distribution of rich and sophisticated report content from all sources of information.
All organizations use reporting in one form or another. As a result, reporting is considered a core Business Intelligence (BI) need and is frequently the first BI application deployed. Pentaho Reporting allows organizations to easily access, format, and distribute information to employees, customers, and partners.
With the release of Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) 4.0, World’s First Unified Development Environment for Business Intelligence Applications Pentaho has claimed that the new release of its software will make life easier for organisations looking to deploy BI.
Pentaho is delivering a radically different, integrated environment that collapses all of the steps from data integration and data modeling through end user visualization, so developers and business users can work side by side and build and deploy BI applications in minutes or hours rather than weeks or months. In addition, this major release of PDI includes application-wide usability enhancements as well as improvements in functionality for business and enterprise deployments including security and team development, so both novice and expert BI professionals and end users can work closely together to rapidly deliver and use rich BI applications.
The Pentaho BI Project encompasses the following major application areas:
- Reporting
- Analysis
- Dashboards
- Data Mining
- Business Intelligence Platform
The Pentaho BI Project is an ongoing effort by the Open Source community to provide organizations with best-in-class solutions for their enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) needs.
