Pentaho

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Pentaho

Pentaho

Developer:	The Pentaho BI Project
Stable release	1.7.1 GA (29 August 2008)
Genre:	Business intelligence
License:	Mozilla Public License 1.1
Website:	[[Website::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.

1 History
2 Corporate Affairs
3 Other OLAP Projects (BI related, but not affiliated with Pentaho)
4 Corporate Achievements
5 Customers
6 Other open source ETL frameworks (ETL related, but not affiliated with Pentaho)
7 Other Open Source BI Companies (Open Source BI Companies related, but not affiliated with Pentaho)
8 References
9 External links

[edit] 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. Lance Water, the Vice President of Pentaho Corporation describes the company mission as "transforming the BI industry by delivering better products, service, and value than the last generation of proprietary BI vendors."

[edit] Corporate Affairs

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Business Model

Pentaho offers Enterprise Editions allowing the deployment of their open source BI suite. The new version focuses on helping businesses save time and money while mitigating risks found with non-commercial open source offerings.

Pentaho Enterprise Editions provide additional capabilities often not found in proprietary alternatives while maintaining a total cost of ownership significantly lower than competitors.

Services oftered by Pentaho include: