Pentaho
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Pentaho | |
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Developed by | The Pentaho BI Project |
Latest release | 1.6 / 10.10.2007 |
Genre | Business intelligence |
License | Mozilla Public License 1.1 |
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.
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[edit] History
Pentaho, headquartered in Orlando, FL, 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.
[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 that provide an alternative to proprietary software BI vendors. This unification has helped to grow the Pentaho Community and provide a centralized place, http://www.pentaho.com, for contributors, customers, and partners to collaborate and access free downloadable software.
[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] Other third parts projects
- Ramsetcube OLAP a cube designer
- Jrubick an olap client
[edit] Business Model
Pentaho uses a subscription model; Meaning it's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. A commercial open source company, Pentaho "leads and sponsors" the open source projects that are core to its suite, giving it direct influence over software development. The developer community involved in those projects is around 8,000 members. Pentaho generates revenue via technical support and management services for enterprise customers.
[edit] Corporate Achievements
- More than three million downloads
- The Red Herring 100 Award
- JBoss Innovation Award
- Jolt Productivity Award
[edit] Industry Coverage
Pentaho provides a long list of media coverage and has great deal of links to related articles on their web site. Many references are from Information Week, eWeek, ZDNet, CNet, BeyeNETWORK, TDWI, DM Review and more.
[edit] Customers
It's interesting to see the various ways established companies are using open source solutions by leveraging services offered by companies like Pentaho.
- MySQL Case Study
- Sun Microsystems Case Study
- Terra Industries Case Study
- Unionfidi Case Study
- iStockphoto Case Study
- DivX Case Study
- ZipRealty Case Study
[edit] Other open-source ETL frameworks
- Clover.ETL
- Enhydra Octopus
- Talend Open Studio
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Pentaho website
- Pentaho on SourceForge
- Pentaho on Freshmeat
- Map of Headquarters
- Information on how to use and configure Pentaho BI can be found at the following Pentaho Tutorial