Pentaho

Infobox Software
name = Pentaho



caption =
author =
developer = The Pentaho BI Project
released =
latest release version = [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140317&package_id=160028&release_id=622669 1.7.1 GA]
latest release date = August 29, 2008
operating system = Cross-platform
programming language = Java
genre = Business intelligence
license = Mozilla Public License 1.1
website = [http://www.pentaho.com/ pentaho.com]

The Pentaho BI Project is Open Source application software for enterprise reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities for Business Intelligence (BI) needs.

History

Pentaho, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, USA was founded in 2004 by a team of Business Intelligence (BI) industry veterans with a track record of delivering successful BI products for leading commercial vendors including Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, IBM, Oracle Corporation, and SAS Institute. Pentaho’s goal has been to transform the BI industry by delivering better products, better service, and better value than the last generation of proprietary BI vendors.

Corporate Affairs

CEO

Richard Daley, co-founded Pentaho in 2004 and is responsible for the strategic vision, direction and day-to-day leadership of the company. Richard has held key executive management positions in the business intelligence software market for over 20 years, starting his career at IBM. Richard was a Co-Founder at AppSource Corporation (acquired by Arbor Software which later merged into Hyperion Solutions) and Keyola (acquired by Lawson Software) and is an avid waterskiier.

Brand

The Pentaho brand has been built to help unify and message a suite of open source projects to provide a commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence over more costly solutions offered by proprietary software BI vendors. This unification has helped to grow the Pentaho Community and provide a centralized place for contributors, customers, and partners to collaborate.

Projects

Pentaho projects are a unification of various pillars often found in a BI stack:

* Pentaho Reporting JFreeReport
* Pentaho Data Integration Kettle ETL
* Pentaho Analysis Mondrian OLAP Server
* Pentaho Data Mining Weka (machine learning)
* Pentaho Dashboards Pentaho Dashboards

Business Model

Pentaho offers enterprise editions allowing the deployment of their open source BI suite. They market this edition with a focus on helping businesses:

* Achieve BI success
* Save time, resources, and money
* Mitigate risks found with non commercial open source offerings

Doing so at a far lower total cost of ownership than proprietary alternatives. Pentaho Enterprise Editions also provide additional capabilities including professional technical support, software maintenance updates, enhanced functionality, certified software, and product expertise, often not found in non commercial open source companies.

Other OLAP Projects (BI related, but not affiliated with Pentaho)

* JRubik OLAP client
* Ramsetcube OLAP cube designer
* PALO Molap Open Source Server

Corporate Achievements

* The Red Herring 100 Award
* JBoss Innovation Award
* Jolt Productivity Award
* 2008 InfoWorld Best Of Open Source (Category : Business Intelligence)

Customers

* MySQL " [http://www.pentaho.com/about/customers/index.php?c=9&v= Case Study] "
* Sun Microsystems " [http://www.pentaho.com/about/customers/index.php?c=14&v= Case Study] "
* [http://www.terraindustries.com Terra Industries] " [http://www.pentaho.com/about/customers/index.php?c=2&v= Case Study] "
* [http://www.unionfidi.com/ Unionfidi] " [http://www.pentaho.com/about/customers/index.php?c=12&v= Case Study] "
* iStockphoto " [http://www.pentaho.com/about/customers/index.php?c=7&v= Case Study] "
* DivX " [http://www.pentaho.com/about/customers/index.php?c=3&v= Case Study] "
* ZipRealty " [http://www.pentaho.com/about/customers/index.php?c=1&v= Case Study] "

Other open source ETL frameworks (ETL related, but not affiliated with Pentaho)

* Clover.ETL
* Talend Open Studio
* Apatar

Other Open Source BI Companies (Open Source BI Companies related, but not affiliated with Pentaho)

* JasperIntelligence
* SpagoBI

References

External links

* [http://www.pentaho.com/ Pentaho website]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/ Pentaho] on SourceForge
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/pentahopci/ Pentaho] on Freshmeat
* [ [http://wikimapia.org/#y=28460104&x=-81303973&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2/ Map of Headquarters] ] Geo Links for Pentaho developers HQ.
*Information on how to use and configure Pentaho BI can be found at the following [http://etl-tools.info/pentaho-tutorial.html Pentaho Tutorial]
* [http://techwatch.reviewk.com/2008/06/open-bi-pentaho-business-intelligence-software-goes-gpl/ Pentaho Software goes GPL]
* [http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Pentaho-Corporation-876987.html/ Pentaho First to Bring Business Intelligence Suite to iPhone on June 9, 2008 ]
* [http://pentaho.phi-integration.com Pentaho Wiki in Indonesian ]