Gain Advantage by Embedding Analytics into Your Application
What good is data if it is locked in applications or not easily accessible? End users of almost all software applications, whether on-premise or SaaS, are demanding business analytics to better understand their corporate and customer data and drive better business decisions. This customer demand creates a great opportunity for ISVs, OEMs and Cloud/SaaS Providers to grow their revenue and create a more loyal customer base.
Embedded business analytics helps you:
- Drive incremental revenue
- Create a competitive advantage
- Increase your strategic value as a supplier
Pentaho is perfect for seamlessly embedding a full analytics offering into any application – providing compelling and world-class business analytics including data access, integration, discovery and visualization. Pentaho provides rapid time to market for improving the competitiveness and value of applications, without the need to build and maintain these capabilities in-house.
Designed for Embedding
Unlike traditional BI and analytics products, Pentaho is designed for seamless integration into packaged enterprise applications, homegrown applications and Software-as-a-Service applications. Integration capabilities include:
- Full Java SDK
- Web services interface
- Re-skinnable and re-brandable web user interface
- Rich security system integration
- Extensible, pluggable and modular architecture
Deploy Anywhere
Is your application deployed on-premise or in the Cloud? Regardless, Pentaho's flexible deployment capabilities have you covered:
- On-Premise: Integrated as part of your software installed on your customer's own machines.
- Cloud: Pentaho is easy to integrate with other multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service applications deployed in the Cloud. As a convenience, we provide pre-configured machine images for selected Cloud services such Amazon EC2.
Compelling Visualization
Pentaho Business Analytics enables applications to stand apart from their competition by providing rich and attractive data visualization capabilities including:
- Reports – rich charting library for communicating data in visually informative and interesting ways
- Analysis – sophisticated trend and exception visualization, including conditional formatting and multi-charts
- Dashboards – visualization of key performance indicators and mash-up with external web service providers, including Google Maps
Customize and Extend
Have you ever wanted to add business analytics to your product in way that is tailored and re-branded to fit your company and your customers? Pentaho is built on modern open web standards and a modular pluggable architecture, giving you the freedom to do just that. You can change the look and feel, colors, logos and background of the interface so your analytics look like a natural extension of your application. And if you need the ultimate in customizability, we can provide you with the source code.
OEM Licensing
Beyond the technical capabilities and expertise, Pentaho also provides flexible, low-friction licensing for software companies wishing to embed Pentaho Business Analytics within their own commercially licensed applications.
