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The Pentaho BI Platform is an enterprise-class Business Intelligence (BI) platform that supports Pentaho's end-user reporting, analysis, and dashboard
capabilities with back-end security, integration, scheduling, and workflow capabilities.
Capabilities and Benefits include:
- Broad platform support based on Java standards
- Management and distribution of reports, analysis, and dashboards on an open source platform
- Easy integration with data sources, portals, and applications using open standards.
- Integrated scheduling and authentication
- Embedded workflow to allow for intelligence BI processes, and integration with external business processes
- Extensive customization capabilities using APIs, web services, or modification of templates, business rules, or even source code
- Integrated audit logging to track user activity, performance, and content access
- Improved data accuracy and integrity.
- Improved sharing of information and collaboration.
- Workflow-based processes enable you to implement unique business logic for a sustained competitive advantage.
Comprehensive BI capabilities
The Pentaho BI Platform supports, integrates, and enables Pentaho's full spectrum of end user capabilities, including:
Reporting
All organizations use reporting in one form or another. As a result, reporting is considered a core Business Intelligence (BI) need and is frequently the first
BI application deployed. Pentaho Reporting allows organizations to easily access, format, and distribute information to employees, customers, and partners.
- Flexible deployment from standalone desktop reporting, to interactive web-based reporting to enterprise business intelligence – with a free open source alternative at every step
- Broad data source support including relational, OLAP, or XML-based data sources
- Flexible output options including Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text
- Wizard-driven report design for fast, easy report creation
- Professional Edition available with additional deployment capabilities including clustering, subscriptions, directory integration, versioning, auditing, and more
Analysis
Pentaho Analysis puts rich, analytic power in the hands of your knowledge workers – helping them to operate with maximum effectiveness by
gaining the insights and understanding they need to make optimal decisions. For example, if a report shows sales are trending lower than expected,
knowledge workers need to be able to easily uncover the underlying issue by getting answers to questions such as:
- Is the problem with one product line, or certain regions?
- What’s different about that combination versus other combinations that don’t have problems?
- Flexible output options including Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text
- Is there a related problem with sales headcount? Marketing campaigns? Or something else?
Pentaho Analysis helps answer these kinds of business questions by:
- Making it easy for knowledge workers to freely explore business information by dragging, dropping, drilling into, and cross-tabulating data
- Providing speed-of-thought response times to complex analytical queries
- Offering advanced capabilities - such as integrated reporting, metadata, or dashboards through integration with other products in the Pentaho Open BI Suite
Dashboards
Pentaho Dashboards provide immediate insight into individual, departmental, or enterprise performance. By delivering key metrics in an attractive and
intuitive visual interface, Pentaho dashboards gives business users the critical information they need to understand and improve organizational performance.
Pentaho Dashboards delivers this visibility by providing:
- Comprehensive metrics management capabilities which allow for the definition and tracking of critical metrics at the individual, department, or enterprise level
- Rich, interactive visual displays so that business users can immediately see which business metrics are on track, and which need attention
- Integration with Pentaho Reporting and Pentaho Analysis so that users can drill to underlying reports and analysis to understand what factors are contributing to good or bad performance
- Portal integration to make it easy to deliver relevant business metrics to large numbers of users, seamlessly integrated into their application
- Integrated alerting to continuously monitor for exceptions and notify users to take action
Data Mining
- Uncovers hidden relationships in your data which can be used to optimize business processes and predict future results.
- Provides a full range of advanced data mining algorithms.
- Enables results to be displayed to users in an easy-to-understand format.
Flexible deployment
- Components used in our out-of-the-box products are also provided individually with Web Services interfaces - enabling Java developers
to create custom applications or embed BI functionality in other applications. Pentaho's Reporting, Analysis, Data Integration and Data Mining
capabilities can all be deployed in conjunction with, or independently from, the Pentaho BI Platform.
- Ready-to-deploy applications for reporting, analysis, dashboards, and data mining.
- Can be used together or stand-alone – enabling you to start with reporting or analysis and add additional capabilities as you grow your deployment.
- All capabilities integrate into a comprehensive BI Framework with a centralized repository, security and other platform-wide features.
Open Source Benefits
Created by the Open Source community: The Pentaho BI Platform was created by the Open Source development community – a vast
resource that enables better software to be developed faster. Because it's Open Source, the Pentaho BI platform is able to include and build on the
work of other teams in the community and, likewise contribute back to other projects.
Open Source is a better, safer choice: Consider this analogy: In years past, companies like AT&T had a stranglehold on the U.S.
telecommunications market. Even after deregulation, chances were high that you had home service from AT&T, or MCI, or someone reselling their
service. Today, AT&T doesn't even market its services to residential customers – it's been completely outmoded by newer business models that
benefit consumers more. The same situation applies in software. For example, when application servers became popular it was IBM and BEA who sparred for
the lead. Today, an Open Source company – JBoss - dominates that market. The same is true in many other categories of software. For example,
a full 70% of web servers now run on Apache – an Open Source platform. And the same effect is spreading to many other software categories as
Open Source continues to take the lead. It's much safer to avoid the risk of investing in a vendor whose business model is rapidly becoming obsolete. Instead,
take advantage of the opportunities Open Source provides.
Higher quality: Commercial software is tested by a relatively tiny number of people compared to Open Source, where a vast number of
developers and end-users test each release. As a result, the quality of Open Source software is as high - if not higher than - commercial offerings.
Experienced team
Founded by industry leaders: The core project team at Pentaho has a strong track record of creating highly successful BI products for
leading commercial software vendors including Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Oracle, IBM, and SAS. Together, we are seeking to achieve positive,
disruptive change in the BI space by making a class-leading BI platform free to everyone.
Professional support and services
Fully backed, around the clock: Pentaho offers a full range of professional support and consulting services to assist you with all
aspects of your deployment - from on-site consulting, through content development.
Complete transparency: Open Source means an open development process. We don't hide anything from you. You can access resources such as
product roadmaps and development status on the web at any time. Give us feedback, see what others are saying, and track issues right through from submission
to resolution. It's refreshingly open, and genuinely helpful.
Aligned with your success: Like other professional Open Source companies, our business model hinges on having the software widely and
successfully deployed. Our interests are tightly aligned with yours, not in conflict.
Technology Highlights
Designed for enterprise-scale deployments with features including application scalability by running on J2EE-compliant application servers.
Web Services Centric - all components provided with a Web Service interface.
XML definitions for all content to enable creation and modification by means other than the graphical user interfaces provided – for
example, manually or programmatically editing the XML.
Centralized repositories provide server-based storage and management of the definitions of dashboards, reports, templates, queries,
and other content.
Graphical administration and design tools are integrated as part of the Pentaho Workbench, which is delivered inside Eclipse.
Security and compliance features include role-based security, business rules, and logging. Also supports Java Single Sign-On/JOSSO
and LDAP to integrate with existing enterprise security.
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