A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services. Ranked #1 in open source BI.
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. Pentahoβs 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.
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.
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.
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Did some testing using large amounts of dummy financial data and its actually pretty good. The analytics are pretty comprehensive and you can really slice & dice the data. The tools (charts, graphs, scenarios, etc.) are pretty cool too. Still nowhere close to a Cognos in terms of functionality but a lot of functionality for a couple million dollar discount ;)