Pentaho News & Articles

Analytics, meet visuals. Business intelligence provider Pentaho has bought consulting partner Webdetails, a Portugal-based visual interface development shop.

Business analytics provider Pentaho has released faster big data analytics and BI tools for the iPad with its Pentaho 4.8 suite.

Pentaho has released a new version of its analytics platform, Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5. Pentaho continues to focus on making it easier for non-technical users to find answers hidden in the piles of data modern organizations are collecting. The latest release adds new options for data visualization and exploration and further extends the solution’s integration options.

Almost anyone that works with technology and data has heard the mantra, “Trash in, trash out.” Invalid data is not a new phenomenon, but the age of big data has made this even more pronounced because the sheer volume of data makes human examination impractical. Open source business analytics provider Pentaho has teamed with data quality company Human Inference to make it a little easier for enterprises to ensure their business data is trustworthy.

Pentaho is continuing its efforts to make big data a first -class citizen in business analytics. In October of last year, the open source business analytics provider began its efforts to comprehensively embrace big data by adding support for Hadoop and a few other NoSQL data sources. Now the company is going a step further.

Open source business intelligence provider, Pentaho, has announced a new version of its ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) platform Kettle. Pentaho has updated Kettle with features to support big data and moved the project to Apache.

Pentaho, a provider of an open-source business intelligence (BI) platform, has announced its latest release. Like the rest of the information management world, the company is squarely focused on supporting -- yes, you guessed it -- big data.

Open source business intelligence provider Pentaho (news, site) has announced that it is supporting substantially more big data sources natively such as the latest distribution of Hadoop and many other NoSQL sources. The expansion of data sources should make it easier for Pentaho’s users to connect these repositories and analyze their ever-expanding stores of data.

Open source business intelligence platform, Pentaho (news, site) has released a new version of Pentaho BI 4 Enterprise Edition heavily focused on providing end users reporting capabilities previously reserved for technologists.

What, the good ol' TIP, test in production, methodology isn’t good enough anymore? Apparently not. QMetry, provider of test case management solutions, and open source business intelligence platform provider Jaspersoft (news, site) announced integration of JasperReports Server Professional into the testing platform. The combined solution will allow organizations to actually see if developers are really “almost done” with that last round of code changes.

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A commercial open source company is releasing easy-to-use business intelligence (BI). Many of you are probably waiting for a sarcastic punch line, because the concept seems a little unbelievable. Isn’t open source free? An easy-to-use tool in a market known for requiring US$ 200-per-hour consultants to design reports? There’s no joke. Pentaho (news, site) has announced the general access (GA) release of version 3.8 of its BI Suite Enterprise Edition that focuses on delivering users an easy platform to build more engaging and interactive business intelligence solutions.