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 software applications, whether on-premise or SaaS, require business analytics to better understand their corporate and customer data and drive better business decisions. This customer demand provides a great opportunity for ISVs, OEMs, cloud/SaaS providers and enterprises. You can take advantage of this need for embedded analytics to:
- Drive incremental revenue
- Create a competitive advantage
- Increase your strategic value as a supplier
Pentaho is ideal for seamlessly embedding a full analytics offering into any application. With compelling visualizations as well as an open architecture and an integrated suite of capabilities, including data access, integration, and discovery, Pentaho provides the most complete solution with the fastest time to market – without the need to build and maintain these capabilities in-house. Software providers can learn how to go to market in less than eight weeks with our Powered by Pentaho program.
An Architecture 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 / cloud-based applications. These capabilities include:
- Open architecture and open standards
- Web services interface for easy integration with any web application
- Public Java API for seamless integration
- 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 hardware
- Cloud: Integrate Pentaho with your multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service applications. As a convenience, we provide pre-configured machine images for selected cloud services such Amazon EC2
Compelling Visualization
Pentaho Business Analytics enables applications to differentiate 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, multi-charts, heat grids and geo-location maps
- Dashboards: Visualization of key performance indicators and mash-up with external web service providers, including Google Maps
Customize and Extend
Business analytics should be a natural extension of your application. Pentaho is built on modern and open web standards and a modular pluggable architecture, giving you the freedom to do just that. You can extend Pentaho to:
- Change the look and feel, colors, logos and background of the interface so your analytics look tailored and branded to fit your company and product.
- Customize the user experience by extending Pentaho visualizations with third party charts, specific to your industry or use case.
- Customize report prompts and interactivity using scriptable logic.
And remember, with Pentaho you have the ultimate power of customization in your own hands, as 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. We customize our pricing to match your licensing and offerings.
Powered By Pentaho
ISVs, OEMs and SaaS providers can go to market in as little as eight weeks by integrating Pentaho into your application. The Powered by Pentaho program enables you to quickly gain competitive advantage and continues to support your success thereafter. Learn more about the Powered by Pentaho program.