Pentaho Business Analytics
Pentaho Business Analytics is a complete end-to-end solution that includes business intelligence, data integration and data mining capabilities – providing power for technologists and rapid insight for users. Pentaho Business Analytics enables business users to intuitively access, discover and analyze their data, empowering them to make information-driven decisions that positively impact their organization's performance. And IT becomes heroes to their business, because they can rapidly deliver a secure, scalable, flexible, and easy to manage business analytics platform that users love.
Point and Click Access to Any Data
Pentaho provides a web-based interface for business users to access any data they wish to use in reporting, analysis and dashboards. With a simple wizard-based approach, business users can turn their data into insight and make information-driven decisions in minutes.
- Web-based data access wizard for business users
- Powerful data integration and federation for IT and developers
- Access to any data type from Excel to Hadoop
Reporting
Reporting capabilities span the entire continuum from self-service interactive reporting for casual business users, to high-volume, highly formatted enterprise reporting.
- Web-based interactive reporting for business users
- Rich graphical enterprise report designer for power users
- Output in popular formats: HTML, Excel, CSV, PDF and RTF
- In-memory caching for fast results
Dashboards
By delivering key performance indicators in a highly graphical visual interface, Pentaho dashboards give business users the critical information they need to understand and improve organizational performance.- Rich graphical visualizations with navigation, drilling and a rich library of filter controls
- Web-based drag and drop dashboard designer for business users
- Portal and mash-up integration to seamlessly integrate business analytics with other applications, including Google Maps
Data Analysis
Pentaho Business Analytics puts powerful analytics in the hands of business users. With an intuitive, interactive web user interface, non-technical users can freely explore and visualize their business data by multiple dimensions such as product, geography and customer.
- View rich visualizations to find patterns and anomalies
- Drill down into supporting reports and dashboards
- Scalable and manageable analytics platform built on standard relational database and BI technologies combined with the speed-of-thought performance of in-memory analysis
Mobile Business Analytics
Pentaho gives business users on the go complete data discovery and interactive analysis capabilities with a powerful visual experience on the iPad. Mobile users instantly become more productive by accessing, analyzing and sharing business information from anywhere.
- Author once, use anywhere with a single, consistent experience across your desktop, laptop and iPad
- Create new analytic reports right on the iPad – unlike other mobile BI solutions
- iPad native touch controls provide the optimal interactive end user experience
- Pentaho security and authentication applies to mobile views, providing user- and role-based access control to data and analytic content
Data Integration and Data Quality
Pentaho Data Integration delivers powerful extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities using an intuitive and rich graphical design environment that enables users to do exactly what most skilled code developers can accomplish – in a fraction of the time.
- Broad connectivity to every kind of data source from Excel to Hadoop
- Data profiling and data quality, including name, address, phone and email cleansing
- High performance multi-threaded processing and MPP clustering
- Integrated semantic dimensional modeling and visualization enabling iterative agile BI
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
The powerful, state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and data processing tools in Pentaho Business Analytics enable you to uncover meaningful patterns and correlations that may otherwise be hidden with standard analysis and reporting. The sophisticated analytics help you understand prior business performance for better planning of future outcomes, for example scoring customers' propensity to behave in a certain way in order to adequately determine necessary inventory levels.
- Dozens of powerful algorithms including classification, regression, clustering and association
- Support for the whole process of experimental data mining, including:
- Preparation of input data
- Statistical evaluation of learning schemes
- Visualization of input data and the result of learning
Centralized Management
Pentaho Business Analytics includes all of the management tools IT needs to easily and efficiently develop, deploy and manage the BI application, while deploying self-service interactive reporting, dashboards and data analysis to end users.
- Analytic content permissions, versioning, locking and expiration
- Backup and recovery
- Performance monitoring and usage auditing
Deploy Anywhere
Pentaho is designed for flexible deployment anywhere, including:
- On-premise – running on your own in-house servers
- Cloud – running on public or private Cloud platforms, including Amazon EC2 and others
- Integrated or embedded – into other on-premise or SaaS applications, for example CRM, ERP or financial applications
