Pentaho Delivers Open Source Business Intelligence Suite for General Availability


Orlando, FL – December 20, 2005 - Today, Pentaho Corp., the world’s leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) software, announced General Availability of its Business Intelligence (BI) Suite. Delivering on the promise it made when the company was announced in May 2005, Pentaho’s release marks the industry’s first comprehensive and integrated BI suite delivered via a commercial open source model.

Comprehensive Business Intelligence

The Pentaho BI Suite provides a comprehensive BI solution for organizations looking to address a wide range of organizational needs.  The Pentaho BI Platform provides a robust foundation supporting integrated reporting, analysis, and dashboard capabilities. 

Reporting – Start Simple and Grow
Users can simply start with desktop reporting and then optionally deploy those reports within web-based applications using the Pentaho Reporting Server.   The Pentaho Reporting Server is a web-based deployment platform, designed for departmental needs all the way through high-performance enterprise-ready production reporting. It was architected for developers looking to embed rich, functional reporting into their applications. Pentaho provides reporting deployment flexibility that allows application developers to deploy as much or as little functionality as they need. 

Operational Business Intelligence Realized

Pentaho BI Suite is unique in the BI market.  It’s the only complete BI offering built from the start to support workflow at every level and across all product capabilities.  This allows organizations to easily integrate reporting and business intelligence with their unique business processes, with complete control over application behavior using popular standards like Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). 

A Community Achievement and Market Milestone

The General Availability of Pentaho’s open BI Suite marks an important milestone for the BI industry, and would not have been possible without significant contributions from developers and organizations around the world.  The clear benefits of this collaborative effort are rapid innovation, quality, and market-driven results.
“I would like to thank everyone in the Pentaho community for their contributions to this historic release,” said Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho Corporation.  “What helps make this project a success is that Pentaho realizes that open source is a two-way street: we get community involvement because of our philosophy of making over 80% of our project available via open source licensing.”
About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) tools from reporting and analysis to dashboards to data mining. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans Pentaho’s mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho’s technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.
 
For more information: Pentaho’s web site is located at www.pentaho.com.
 
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