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Pentaho

Pentaho is a comprehensive business intelligence suite that enables you to create and distribute business intelligence documents to a large number of recipients via a web interface.

Pentaho is completely open source and offers a subscription for premium publishing services, including unlimited support and various guarantees.

Business Intelligence Components

Pentaho includes all the necessary elements for a business intelligence project and is the only open source publisher capable of ensuring consistency over time.

  • Perfect reports, with Pentaho Report, a report designer
  • A metamodels design tool, with Pentaho Metadata, a business tool for identifying relationships between tables in databases so that queries can be run on these databases without any technical knowledge being required. li>
  • A multidimensional analysis engine, with Pentaho Analysis (Mondrian), the OLAP server used by all business intelligence suites. It can analyse a large volume of data in a very simple way for the user.
  • Access to business intelligence documents via a secure web portal : by default using JBoss Portal but also by using any J2EE portal complying with the JSR 168 standard.
  • A workflow tool ( Shark) for identifying complex sequences and for automating them, starting from a simple multi-stage form to the selective distribution of information to a group of subscribers via email.
  • A powerful loading and transformation tool, with Pentaho Data Integration (ex Kettle), a very simple ETL to use.
  • A datamining tool, with Pentaho Weka
  • Pentaho also has a MsExcel client for Mondrian and a connection to Google Maps.

Conclusion

Pentaho is a comprehensive business intelligence platform. You can not only use different open source business intelligence tools from one single interface but you can also combine their functions using a workflow engine and by integrating a third party portal. Due to its open source nature, Pentaho is the ideal solution for deploying business intelligence analysis to a large number of users. Thanks to Pentaho Metadata, Pentaho is the only open source business intelligence suite where you can design business objects and query them later, always in a very simple way.