Today Pentaho released version 3 of their BI suite Enterprise Edition. Apart from a few bug fixes, majority of the functionality is the same as that available in Enterprise Edition version 2 (previous post). One significant addition is the self-service dashboard designer.
Along with the adhoc report and adhoc analysis, you can now create an adhoc [...]
My previous article discussed why “Open Source Business Intelligence is a Good Idea”. In this article, I evaluate Pentaho BI, one the most popular open source BI solutions (others being Jaspersoft and Actuate). Pentaho BI is offered in two flavors namely the community (aka free) edition and the enterprise (aka commercial) edition. The community edition [...]
More and more companies that are interested in improving the way they do business are adopting open source business intelligence. They are choosing open source for a variety of reasons, but primarily they have their eye on the bottom line. Because open source business intelligence gives companies options, they are able to save [...]
Business intelligence, or BI, is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of software applications used to analyze an organization’s raw data. BI as a discipline is made up of several related activities, including data mining, online analytical processing, querying and reporting. Companies use BI to improve decision making, cut costs and identify new [...]