Friday, April 6, 2007

Pentaho.

Pentaho or well known as the Pentaho BI project is an open source application software that combines several open source projects. These projects are Mondrian, JFreeReport, Kettle, Pentaho and Weka.


Pentaho has establish itself as a leader within the burgeoning open source Business Intelligence (BI) market with it Open BI Suit and Reporting Server products(2006, Activa Group). The Pentaho BI provide components and functionality integrated with the Pentaho BI Platform. The platform integrate:

1. Open source OLAP Server (Mondrian),

  1. Open source Reporting (JFreeReport)

  2. Open source Data Integration (E.T.T.L) by Kettle

  3. Comprehensive Open Source BI Suite (by Petaho itself)

  4. Open Source Data Mining (Weka).

The further part will explain the major application areas in Pentaho BI Project:

Reporting

Pentaho enable to make easy access,format and distribute of information because

i. It is flexible: can be deploy as standalone desktop reporting, as web-based reporting or deploy as enterprise BI.

ii. Support variety data source including:

- relational data source

-OLAP

- XML-based data sources

iii. Variety output option including:

-Adobe PDF

-HTML

-Microsoft Excel

-Rich Text Format

-Plain text

iv. Fast and easy report design creation with Wizard-driven

Analysis

Helping in better insight on particular problem and make ease of decision making by

i. enable freely explore business information by

- dragging

-dropping

-drilling into

-cross tabulating data.

ii. Complex analytical queries can be done faster by the help of chart, statistic etc.


Dashboard

i. Provide immediate insight into individual, departmental or enterprise department by

-displaying critical information needed in understanding and in improving organizational performance

-deliver the information in key metrics in a form of intuitive visual interface.

-integration with Reporting and Analysis allows users to drill to related report and analysis to understand what factor contributing to good or bad performance.

-Portal integration make it easy to deliver relevant business metrics to large number of users, seamlessly integrated into their application.

-Integrate alerting to continuously monitor for exception and notify users to take action.

Data Mining

-Pentaho offer strong ability to query very large databases in order to uncovers hidden relationship in data which can be used to optimize business processes and predict future results.

-Full range of advance data mining algorithm (combine with OLAP technology) to provide machine-intelligent to provide data analysis to the user.

-Data mining tools can analyze historical data to create predictive models and then using Pentaho Reporting and Analysis, companies can distribute this information to the appropriate people.
-display result in an easy to understand format (graph,statistic,pie chart etc).

Workflow
Pentaho perform it task dynamically and automates business processes- produce efficient workflow and accurate result.

-It directly links to business performance metrics to the process that driven them.

-contribute a continuous cycle of business performance improvement.



Organization Suitability.

Pentaho is suitable for organizations which looking to increase revenue, lower expenses, and improve profitability by improving efficiency and effectiveness in their business processes and overall performance. It is solution-oriented BI Platform that integrate Open Source components and open standards with a process-driven engine. Thus acquiring the software consume only small portion of the budget schemed into technology advancement compartment.

Pentaho integrate all the organization's business processes from operational level to strategic level,this integration enable enterprise-sized organization establish enterprise-wide communication and enable resources (reports,analysis etc) sharing across the network. Thus by deploying Pentoha a n organization can maximize business value by moving information to the workers who can use the information to effect the way the company operates.

References:

http://www.pentaho.org

-Documentation:Pentaho Open Source Intelligence Platform Technical White Paper

http://forum.pentaho.org

-Forum:Please treat this as High Priority Request..help needed

http://www.intelligententerprise.com

-Article:

i. JasperSoft Rolling Out BI Suite

ii. Open-Source BI Stretches Beyond Reporting

http://www.activagroup.com

-Report: Pentoha Gives Open Source Business Intelligence a Boost.

0 comments: