Whitepapers
Check out these whitepapers to learn more about Pentaho and business analytics.
Pentaho Agile BI: An Iterative Methodology for Fast, Flexible and Cost-Effective Business Intelligence
Author: James Dixon - Pentaho CTO and Co-Founder
Pentaho’s Agile BI initiative changes the technical, operational and economic factors of BI. Pentaho Chief Geek and CTO James Dixon discusses how the agile approach enables BI to cross the chasm from being process bound to being user driven.
Enterprise Applications Consulting: BI at the Crossroads – The Need for Lean, Agile and Effective End User Solutions
Author: Joshua Greenbaum
Industry Analyst, Joshua Greenbaum, Principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting, explores the promise and reality of agile business intelligence from the user perspective in this independent whitepaper.
Realizing the Pentaho Agile BI Opportunity: BI for the Masses and Customer Success
Author: Joshua Greenbaum
BI for the masses is only achieved when attention is given to the simultaneous needs of end users and the IT departments that serve them. Industry Analyst Joshua Greenbaum, Principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting, discusses how four Pentaho customers realized the true value of agile BI and delivered BI to the masses.
How to Lead Your BI Project with a Brand New Approach – An Agile BI Practical Guide
Author: Pentaho
Business intelligence projects frequently fail to deliver results on time and on budget, and are not adopted by business users, hindering their self-sufficiency and independent decision making. As a result, IT remains on the BI treadmill, needing to respond to business users' requests. With ever growing data volumes and shrinking decision windows, this approach to business intelligence is no longer acceptable. This whitepaper explores how the agile BI approach addresses the roadblocks to successful analytics projects.
Aberdeen Group: The Analytical Masses – Building Self-Service Insight for Line-of-Business Decisions
Author: Michael Lock - Aberdeen Group
Michael Lock of the Aberdeen Group focuses on the effect of end user adoption, pervasiveness, and engagement of business intelligence on business performance. Learn the necessary steps to establishing self-service business analytics.
CFO's Ultimate Guide to Buying Business Intelligence
Author: Pentaho
As you narrow down your choice of BI products, this whitepaper will help to highlight things that most BI vendors don’t want you to know, showing you specific BI considerations you need to evaluate, and questions you need to ask.
Aberdeen Group: Embedding BI in Enterprise Applications: Magnifying the Analytical Impact
Author: Aberdeen Group
The increasing volume of data is difficult for many companies to manage and traditional business intelligence solutions are too costly and require a steep learning curve. Read this Aberdeen report to learn why many companies are choosing and succeeding by embedding business analytics into existing software applications.
Lowering the Cost of Business Intelligence with Open Source
Author: Mark Madsen - Third Nature Research
Often the top reason why companies choose open source business intelligence is "lower costs", but does commercial open source BI actually have lower license and support costs? Mark Madsen of Third Nature Research compares the costs of traditional BI vendors with Pentaho commercial open source analytics.
BeyeNETWORK Research Report – Open Source Solutions: Managing, Analyzing and Delivering Business Information
Author: Mark Madsen - Third Nature Research
Open source adoption is moving into mainstream consideration for new BI projects. Mark Madsen of Third Nature Research reviews the rationale, practices and benefits that are driving use of open source as an alternative to the traditional vendors in this market.
In-Memory or Not In-Memory: What Should You Expect from Your Business Analytics Application?
Author: Pentaho
In-memory analytics carry a great promise, but not all in-memory solutions perform the same. It is the characteristics of the in-memory solution that matters, not just having an in-memory option. The ideal solution is one that has in-memory capabilities, but does not limit you to an in-memory only architecture.