Pentaho Marks Second Anniversary with 1.5 Million Downloads

ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today celebrates its second anniversary with over 1.5 million downloads since the inception of the company, recent selection as SourceForge.net Project of The Month for October, and recognition by Forbes magazine as a “revolutionary” in the software industry. In only two years, Pentaho and the Pentaho community have redefined and expanded the BI industry with a professional open source business model that addresses the need for reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining and data integration without the expense and shortcomings of proprietary BI solutions. Today, Pentaho’s projects are downloaded more than 100,000 times a month, representing more users than the installed bases of proprietary BI stalwarts Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion combined. Those downloads have translated into production applications like reporting and analysis of sales performance, dashboards monitoring key performance indicators in organizations around the world, and include a number of implementations in large-scale production environments.

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Pentaho beefs up open source OLAP

Pentaho Corp continues to hammer out rapid upgrades to key components of its evolving open source business intelligence suite. The company has now launched Mondrian 2.2, which is an OLAP open source project set up in 2001, and which Pentaho took over as chief steward and project owner of last November and integrated it into the Pentaho BI Suite as an “Analysis Services” component.

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Open Source Firms Optaros And Pentaho Announce Strategic Partnership

Optaros, an open source software consulting and integration firm announced a strategic partnership with Pentaho, provider of open source business intelligence (BI) software. The alliance enables Optaros to integrate Pentaho’s enhanced analysis capabilities with its enterprise-class next generation internet (NGI) applications, providing companies with a complete set of tools for achieving their business goals.

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Pentaho Announces Mondrian 2.2

Mondrian allows business users to analyze data using multiple data points such as time periods, geographic regions, or product lines, and it supports a wide range of horizontal and vertical industry OLAP applications. The new Pentaho Cube Designer simplifies and expedites the analysis process by eliminating the need for administrators to use XML to create OLAP schemas. Instead, the wizard-driven graphical user interface walks administrators through the steps of connecting to relational data sources, defining analytical dimensions, and identifying measures for analysis. This lowers the total cost of ownership and also significantly expands the potential user base for Pentaho’s best-in-class open source OLAP capabilities.

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