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Demos, Case Studies, and White Papers, Market Insights
View the content below to help you learn why you should be using Pentaho for your next BI implementation. You'll find topics including:
Let us know when you're ready to take the next step toward using Pentaho as your open source alternative for Business Intelligence. Product and Architectural Demos and Interviews
Product and Architectural Demos and Interviews
Use these on demand demonstrations and interviews to learn more about why Pentaho is the commercial open source business intelligence alternative for your next BI project. If there's something more specific you would like to see or learn about, please
let us know.
Live Online Demonstration
Experience the power and simplicity of Pentaho's end user BI offerings with this online demonstration. You'll see rich, customizable reports, interactive dashboards, and powerful analytics.
Extending Pentaho with R analytics
"R" is a popular open source statisical and analytical language that academics and commercial organizations alike have used for years to get maximum insight out of information using advanced analytic techniques. In this twelve-minute video, David Reinke from Pentaho Certified Partner OpenBI provides an overview of R, as well as a demonstration of integration between R and Pentaho.
Pentaho - The First to Bring BI to the iPhone
Pentaho's new iPhone application provides an easy and intuitive way for business users to access business intelligence (BI) information on the iPhone. The iPhone BI extension is available today, and works with Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.7. This short demonstration provides a business user view of accessing and interacting with business intelligence from Pentaho on the iPhone.
Pentaho Architecture Overview
In this sixteen minute presentation James Dixon, Pentaho CTO and cofounder, will provide background about the Pentaho architecture. You will learn about why it's designed the way it is, a complete flow of major components in the system, how data and control flows throughout the architecture, and the many deployment and integration options available.
Pentaho Metadata and Ad Hoc Reporting
In this 15 minute presentation Jake Cornelius, Product Manager for Pentaho, provides an overview of the new metadata layer and ad hoc reporting interface introduced in version 1.6 of the Pentaho Open BI Suite. This release delivers the first true, open source metadata layer that reduces maintenance costs and removes the technical barriers to delivering self service, ad hoc reporting to business users.
Pentaho Google Maps Demo
This short, self-playing demo provides an overview and demonstration of Pentaho Dashboards' ability to integrate with Google maps to provide interactive, geographic visualization.
Case Studies, Testimonials and Implementations
Case Studies, Testimonials and Implementations
The documents, podcasts and webcasts, provide you with examples of how companies,
organizations and agencies like yours, are using Pentaho to solve there BI needs.
SPH Search deploys Pentaho
SPH Search has deployed Pentaho's commercial open source BI products because of their standards-based scalable architecture, lower cost of ownership, and proven global deployability after SPH evaluated alternatives from Cognos, Oracle, and SAS Institute.
Mozilla Transforms BI
ZipRealty Goes Open Source
Learn why ZipRealty, a national real estate brokerage, chose MySQL and Pentaho Business Intelligence, to help them better measure and optimize agent performance, customer satisfaction and marketing ROI. By combining Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MySQL database and Pentaho Data Integration, ZipRealty was able to obtain an integrated, strategic view across multiple operational systems while utilizing open source to greatly reduce overall TCO.
Loma Linda University Health Care Deploys Pentaho BI
Managing more than 600 physicians and more than 40,000 patient visits per month is no small task. Loma Linda University Health Care (LLUHC) found that their business had outgrown their Microsoft Excel- and Microsoft Access-based systems, and that they needed a real business intelligence solution. LLUHC evaluated various proprietary and open source BI offerings, ultimately choosing Pentaho. This case study describes their business and technology challenges, evaluation process, deployment, and the overall benefits they've achieved from their Pentaho BI Solution.
Unionfidi uses Pentaho for Business Intelligence delivery
This one page case study describes how a leading Italian financial firm, Unionfidi S.C., uses Pentaho to provide an integrated data warehouse, balanced scorecard application, and supporting reports and analysis. The case study briefly describes Unionfidi S.C.'s challenges before Pentaho, their technical environment, and the results they were able to achieve in only 8 weeks with Pentaho and Pentaho Partner Two Heads I.T.
BNSF Logistics Deploys Pentaho
The B-Eye Network published a Community Spotlight on BNSF Logistics deployment of Pentaho's BI suite. The experts at OpenBI, a Pentaho Certified Partner, worked closely with BNSF Logistics to understand their business requirements and technology infrastructure to implement a highly-successful BI solution using Pentaho.
How Federal Agencies Can Achieve Operational BI on a Budget
Learn how government agencies like yours chose open source BI from Pentaho and how they have successfully implemented operational BI, while reducing TCO and vendor lock-in via the open source model.
A Proven Prescription for Reduced Risk and BI Success
Choosing the right Business Intelligence solution can be confusing, expensive and lead to uncertainty. Please join Loma Linda University Health Care and Pentaho to learn how to avoid the three key risks when making your BI purchasing decision: technology risks, project risks and vendor relationship risks. The live case study by Loma Linda University Health Care will show why so many firms are choosing open source Business Intelligence (BI) to solve their BI issues.
London borough of Camden Deploys Pentaho
This one page case study outlines how the London borough of Camden, with consulting services from Pentaho Partner Graymatter, deployed Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition to provide its residents outstanding citizen service. With Pentaho, Camden business users now have access to real-time KPIs and can subscribe to reports having them delivered via email on the schedules they need to make timely decisions.
SCHUFA Holding AG Deploys Pentaho Data Integration
Learn how SCHUFA Holding AG uses Proratio's ProERPconn plug-in for Pentaho Data Integration to transfer customer data from SAP R/3 to Siebel CRM.
Swiss Colony Integrates Web Data Using Pentaho
The Swiss Colony is one of the world's largest and most
successful multi-title catalog companies, with a strong infrastructure to capture and report information generated by its catalog business. As e-commerce grew as a channel, a whole new series of analytical
requirements emerged. The Swiss Colony turned to Pentaho to move to the next level in its business intelligence and analytics capacity.
White Papers
White Papers
These white papers provide insight into Pentaho, Open Source BI, and strategies for using business intelligence to explain why commercial open source business intelligence is the best alternative for your companies next BI implementation.
Deploying Data Mining Models with Pentaho
This white paper outlines the flexible options for the deployment of predictive models using Pentaho Data Mining and Pentaho Data Integration. In particular, it considers the common scenario of batch scoring to rapidly update predictive scores
TDWI's Best Practices Report: Performance Management Strategies: How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics
This report explores the art and science of creating effective performance metrics, which are at the heart of any performance management system, including dashboards, scorecards, and individual performance plans.
Open Source on The Trading Desk
This white paper describes the issues facing Financial Services firms, and a trading desk solution implemented by Pentaho Certified Partner dbConcert using the Ingres open source database and the Pentaho BI Suite.
Open Source Business Intelligence: A 2008 Progress Report
Download the latest Database Trends and Applications research entitled, "Open Source Business Intelligence: A 2008 Progress Report," to see the results of Business Intelligence tools and platforms survey, conducted by Unisphere Research, focused on the evolving adoption and licensing strategies for BI solutions. Unisphere's Lead Analyst Joseph McKendrick wrote the report based on the survey results, focusing on the types of project planning and methodologies that are achieving the best ROI, the factors that contribute to end user acceptance and adoption and the current challenges with regard to traditional BI software.
A New Business Model to Drive Business Intelligence Acceptance and Adoption
Traditionally it has been time-consuming and expensive for a given customer to evaluate, select, purchase, and maintain the right Business intelligence technology to address their needs. Customers face significant challenges relative to time, expense, and accuracy throughout BI technology investigation, vendor engagement, and final technology selection. Professional open source BI radically alters the economics of all three of these phases in a way that reduces costs and risks for prospective BI users - Learn more by downloading our new white paper
Strategies for Managing Spreadmarts: Migrating to a Managed BI Environment
Does your firm struggle with spreadmarts? In organizations all over the world, business people bypass their IT groups to get data from spreadmarts. Spreadmarts are data shadow systems in which individuals collect and massage data on an ongoing basis to support their information requirements or those of their immediate workgroup. These shadow systems, which are usually built on spreadsheets, exist outside of approved, IT-managed corporate data repositories, such as data warehouses, data marts, or ERP systems, and contain data and logic that often conflict with corporate data. Once created, these systems spread throughout an organization like pernicious vines, strangling any chance for information consistency and reliability. You'll find them in all industries, supporting all business functions. According to TDWI Research, more than 90% of all organizations have spreadmarts.
Open Source ETL tools vs Commercial ETL tools
Blogger Jonathan Levins, makes a case for open source ETL-data integration tools as an alternative for the commercial data integration tool, Informatica PowerCenter by comparing Pentaho and Informatica.
Proprietary Business Intelligence Consolidation: What it Means to Your Company
The business intelligence (BI) market has recently undergone a significant level of consolidation. The three largest independent BI software vendors have been acquired by larger technology vendors. In April 2007, Oracle completed its acquisition of Hyperion Solutions. In October 2007, SAP announced plans to acquire Business Objects, followed in November by IBM's announced intent to acquire Cognos.
This consolidation validates the importance and value of the BI market, but also creates challenges and opportunities for organizations that are currently using or considering business intelligence software. As stated by Mark Smith, Ventana Research, "If you are in the middle of evaluating SAP or Business Objects products in analytics, BI and Performance Management products you should take heed to the rocky future." Learn more about how Bi market consolidation will affect your business now and in the future and what you can do about it.
Pentaho Linear Scalability: Measure the Performance of a BI Platform and Apply This Technique to Pentaho
This white paper contains the description of a method used to measure the performance of a BI platform. Also included, are ways in which to use these measurements to determine the scalability of a BI system in a scale-out architecture. This method was applied to the Pentaho BI Platform and the proof of linear scalability in a scale-out architecture are presented.
Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Platform Technical White Paper with V1.7 Update
The Pentaho business intelligence (BI) platform was designed to overcome many of the architectural and functional limitations of traditional, proprietary BI platforms. Pentaho's unique architecture provides an innovative and flexible approach to implementing a
wide range of BI solutions, while harnessing the cost and quality advantages of an open source development model. This technical white paper provides an overview of traditional technology challenges in BI, and describes Pentaho's architectural approach to addressing those challenges.
The paper focuses on the following key areas:
Market Insights
Market Insights
Use these on demand web casts, documents and articles to learn more about what's happening in open source business intelligence and what other companies are doing to take advantage of the new alternatives presented with open source.
You can also register for upcoming webcasts at our events page.
Adoption Usage Survey: OSBI and Reporting -- A BEyeNETWORK Report
The research report examines the open source business intelligence adoption and usage patters that currently exist to create a baseline for those wishing to implement open source technologies or move from developer projects to enterprise-wide solutions. The report covers:
Open Sesame: What You Need to Know about Open Source BI and Data Warehousing
View this ondemand webcast now to get an overview of the BI landscape from one of the industry's leading lights, Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. Open Source Business Intelligence is one of the great success stories of 2008. According to Aberdeen, 25% of respondents will adopt open source BI in the next 12 to 24 months. Learn how companies are saving time, budget and bandwidth with open source BI.
Database Trends and Applications BI Survey Results
Watch this archived webcast to get the results from Database Trends and Applications latest BI survey. This complimentary, one-hour event will give you the information you need to make the right BI decisions for your business. The study focuses on BI tools and platforms and was conducted by Unisphere Research to shed light on evolving adoption and licensing strategies for Business Intelligence solutions. Unisphere's Lead Analyst Joseph McKendrick will walk you through the survey results and answer audience questions.
A New Business Model to Drive Business Intelligence Acceptance and Adoption
Traditionally it has been time-consuming and expensive for a given customer to evaluate, select, purchase, and maintain the right Business intelligence technology to address their needs. Customers face significant challenges relative to time, expense, and accuracy throughout BI technology investigation, vendor engagement, and final technology selection. Professional open source BI radically alters the economics of all three of these phases in a way that reduces costs and risks for prospective BI users - Learn more by downloading our new white paper
Market Overview: Open Source ETL Tools An Attractive Alternative To Custom Code
A Forrester Research Report by Rob Karel and Michael Goulde with Mike Gilpin and Norman Nicolson November 6, 2007
As open source, community-driven software continues its evolution from an interesting experiment to a viable technology alternative for enterprises, additional market segments develop open-source alternatives. The latest segment in the trend is open source extract, transform, and load (ETL) data integration. While the vendors and projects leading the way in this emerging market have their sights set on creating an alternative to commercially available packaged solutions, expect early adopters to be independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs), as well as end users in both midmarket and enterprise-sized organizations that are looking for a more productive and efficient alternative to writing custom code.
BI & Performance Management for Midsized Companies
Traditionally, Business Intelligence was thought of as a tool reserved for large enterprises with large IT budgets. Now, midmarket companies can now take advantage of BI tools tailored to the size of their organization. These tools give them increased visibility into their operations and this information can be effectively distributed to all key stakeholders. In this panel discussion, moderator Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research, will be joined by Caroline Seymour, AVP, Cognos; Dick Kuiper, Sr. Business Consultant for Lawson; John Kale, LogiXML's VP of Marketing and Lance Walter, VP of Marketing, Pentaho, for an informative discussion of how BI can be a critical component of growth for any size organization.
BI on a Budget: How to implement BI Environment without Breaking the Bank or a Maintenance Nightmare
Moderated by Claudia Imhoff, President & Founder, Intelligent Solutions Inc., Today, enterprises are under serious scrutiny and pressure to reduce costs, simplify administration efforts and reduce the likelihood of project failures. The daunting challenge that still exists around security and the continually increasing volumes of data and numbers of users are making it extremely difficult for big business to maintain quick access to data, uphold productivity and performance, and keep up application and service response times.
A Recipe for Pervasive BI in an Uncertain Economic Climate
Listen or watch this one-hour educational Webinar featuring John Hagerty, Vice President and Research Fellow for AMR Research. John will explain how operational BI contributes to pervasive performance management and will offer advice on how to address the challenges of a consolidating BI marketplace. He will detail how open source BI can expand your choices, decrease your costs and risks and help integrate systems that are already working well for your enterprise. You'll see how your whole organization can enjoy the bountiful benefits of operational BI, even on a budget!
Open Source Business Intelligence Changes the way you buy and own BI
Lance Walter, Vice President of Marketing for Pentaho, explains why business intelligence buyers should consider open source, describes how Pentaho differs
from other open source business intelligence companies and provides an overview of Pentaho.
Strategies for Managing Spreadmarts: Migrating to a Managed Bi Environment
One of the most insidious problems in data warehousing is the proliferation of spreadmarts---spreadsheets and Access databases that masquerade as data marts. Created independently, these data shadow systems deliver a fragmented view of the enterprise and an inconsistent view of the business that cripples the business. This webinar will show how spreadmarts are a symptom of a larger problem and then outline strategies for migrating organizations to a managed BI environment that delivers a single version of truth. The event will be hosted by Wayne Eckerson, Director, TDWI Research.
The Ins and Outs of Open Source Business Intelligence - A TDWI Webcast
You've surely heard of open-source software by now. More and more top-tier vendors write for Linux, the premier open-source operating system; even TiVo runs on Linux! These days, the open-source movement extends into the realm of business intelligence. Numerous open source BI vendors offer a wide range of reporting and analytical applications for free*. *Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch: there are the services to implement the software, and those ever-present maintenance contracts.
Taking the Wheel of Your BI Strategy—Are You the Driver or the Passenger?
Know Your Options Before You Make Your Next BI Move
Are the dramatic business intelligence (BI) market changes of the past year driving your BI strategy? In order to keep delivering BI benefits for your organization, you need to learn how to regain control, balancing the art and science of BI. To develop your clear, low-risk strategy, you need to overcome the challenge of change in the market and in your suppliers. Join our webcast to learn how.
Federal Agencies: Taking the Wheel of Your BI Strategy—Are You the Driver or the Passenger?
Know Your Options Before You Make Your Next BI Move
Are the dramatic business intelligence (BI) market changes of the past year driving your BI strategy? In order to keep delivering BI benefits for your organization, you need to learn how to regain control, balancing the art and science of BI. To develop your clear, low-risk strategy, you need to overcome the challenge of change in the market and in your suppliers. Join our webcast to learn how.
Understanding open source and translating it to BI
Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica gives a basic feel for core issues and opportunities around open source software and how to translate open source to business intelligence (BI).
He'll cover:
Operational Business Intelligence on a Budget
The goal of Operational BI is to put relevant information into the hands of front-line employees in the context of their normal daily work processes. Many organizations have recognized the potential value of Operational BI, but high costs, complex technology,
and unforeseen change management issues have slowed or stalled their initiatives.
Get an understanding of how open source adoption and operational BI are creating new opportunities for European firms. European industry analyst perspectives as well as European customer examples will provide insight into market dynamics and best practices to achieve operational business intelligence throughout your organization.
Grow Existing BI Deployments at Lower TCO with Open Source
Watch this on demand webcast to learn the benefits achived by your peer organizations, who already own proprietary BI, from vendors like Oracle, Business Objects, Cognos, Informatica and others, and how they have deployed commercial open source business intelligence, side-by-side in their existing BI deployments, as well as for new users and projects.
Simplifying Business Intelligence: Options to Streamline the Acquisition, Delivery and Maintenance of BI Systems
Learn from Boris Evelson, lead open source analyst for Forrester research, how you can simplify the process of acquiring, delivering and maintaining a business intelligence. Boris, will detail areas of BI complexity and show how simplification can bring you BI success.
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