Pentaho Announces Software Quality Reports for JIRA

Updated Open Source Project Delivers Best-in-class Reporting and Analysis for Atlassian JIRA

Orlando FL. - Dec. 12, 2006 - Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced another significant contribution to the open source project marrying the benefits of BI to the world's most popular defect tracking systems. Specifically, Pentaho has developed and contributed a new application built on the Pentaho Open BI Suite to provide enhanced reporting and analysis of data from Atlassian JIRA. The new solution gives software development professionals dramatically better insight to improve their quality management processes, and showcases the breadth and power of Pentaho's open source BI capabilities.

"JIRA users will find that this new solution helps them deliver even more value from their JIRA deployments," said Nicholas Goodman, Director of BI Solutions at Pentaho. "This project complements and extends the best-in-class functionality that has already made JIRA one of the most popular and widely-deployed bug tracking and project management systems in the world."

Developed and distributed by Atlassian, JIRA is a software defect and project management solution. JIRA has achieved widespread global adoption with a customer list that includes companies like Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Cisco, Red Hat, SAP, GE, McDonalds, Citigroup, Fidelity, and more. JIRA's popularity is driven by its rich feature set that includes issue tracking, full text search, customizable workflows, cross-platform support, easy customization, comprehensive alerting and more.

This new application, part of the "Software Quality Reports for JIRA/Bugz" project on SourceForge.net, extends and enhances JIRA's reporting and analysis capabilities. Implemented using the Pentaho Open BI Suite, it provides an end-to-end solution for delivering valuable software quality information to product managers, project managers, development managers, and software engineers. The new solution includes:

• Pre-defined ETL mappings to make it easy to extract the relevant information from JIRA
• A packaged data model for reporting and analysis that includes staging tables as well as summary tables for fast performance and easy report writing
• OLAP schema definitions to support high-performance, interactive analysis
• Operational reports providing critical day-to-day operational information
• Analytic reports that show trends over time including feature burndown, bug closure, and productivity

"It's great to see an open source community providing these kinds of extensions to JIRA," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO at Atlassian. "We're pleased to partner with a leader like Pentaho to expand the community and available solutions around JIRA. Our clients will really appreciate these new capabilities."

Software Quality Reports is available today and interested users and contributors can access the project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qareports , or link to it from www.pentaho.com/download/latest . The application, as well as the source code are available under the Mozilla Public License and require the Pentaho 1.2 RC3 or later.

About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. 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 a professional open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including JFreeReport, Kettle, Mondrian, and Weka. 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, visit www.pentaho.com.

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