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Why Embed BI?

What good is good data if it is locked in applications or not easily accessible to those who need information? By embedding business intelligence you can enrich your applications and deliver powerful reporting and analysis capabilities to users.
From a business perspective, embedded BI can help you:
  • Drive incremental revenue streams
  • Create competitive advantage
  • Expand your footprint and increase your strategic value as a supplier in your customer accounts
From a technical perspective, embedded BI will let you:
  • Display reports online or produce in popular formats like Adobe PDF and Microsoft Excel
  • Provide on-demand, interactive, self-service reporting capabilities that empower end-users
  • Let users explore and interact with information in an easy to use Web interface

Why Embed Pentaho?

Pentaho's end-to-end BI capabilities, modern architecture, and commercial open source model offer numerous advantages for embedded BI over custom coding and proprietary alternatives. From embedded reporting to comprehensive business intelligence solutions, thousands of developers and hundreds of organizations have chosen Pentaho technology to enhance the way their users access information.
  • Comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration and fully integrated BI platform
  • Modern, modular, standards-based architecture
  • Lightweight, componentized, and 100% Java libraries
  • Open access to source code with easy extension points
  • Low total cost of ownership


"Pentaho offered significant benefits in its embeddable BI capabilities, while ensuring that we deliver maximum value to our clients." - Spidex

"Pentaho Reporting Enterprise Edition is a great fit for our SaaS-based applications. It is functionally rich, technologically sound, and very easy to use. Pentaho has been a great partner throughout every phase of our design and deployment, helping us to quickly provide value to our customers." - Sircon