Pentaho is an open source business intelligence suite founded in 2004 that provides reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis, data integration, dashboards, and data mining capabilities. It can be downloaded for free from pentaho.com or sourceforge.net. Pentaho's commercial open source model eliminates licensing fees and provides annual subscription support and services. Key features include flexible reporting, a report designer, ad hoc reporting, security roles, OLAP analysis, ETL workflows, drag-and-drop data integration, alerts, and data mining algorithms.

1. INTRODUCTION TO PENTAHO

2. OVERVIEW Pentaho Pentaho BI suite enterprise edition Query and Reporting OLAP Analysis Data integration Dashboard Datamining

3. pentaho Pentaho is founded in 2004 at Orlando, U.S.A Pentaho manages, facilitates, Supports and takes the lead development role in pentaho BI project- a pioneering initiative by open source community to provide organizations with a comprehensive set of BI capabilities that enable them to radically improve business performance, effectiveness and efficiency.

4. Download Pentaho BI suite from the website: www.pentaho.com or www.sourceforge.net Pentaho BI suite is the commercial open source software application. Pentaho’s commercial open source business model eliminates license fees, production support, services and product enhancement via an annual subscription. Pentaho is the recommended component of MYSQL Data warehouse scale-out solution set.

5. Pentaho BI suite enterprise edition provides: Query and Reporting OLAP Analysis Dashboard Datamining Workflow ETL capabilities for business intelligence needs

6. Pentaho enterprise edition features:

7. PENTAHO REPORTING Reporting is core business intelligence need and Pentaho reporting is now the most popular open source reporting. Access and format data from RDBMS and XML sources and produce in various formats like ADOBE, HTML, Microsoft Access, Rich Text Format or Plain text format. Create, manage and distribute reports through rich graphical report designer and deliver reports through web or e-mail.

8. Pentaho reporting allows you to start up small and scale up by providing full spectrum of addressing needs.

9. Some of the Pentaho reporting features: Flexible reporting. Broad data source report. Pentaho report designer. Pentaho User console. Ad Hoc reporting interface. Comprehensive role based security.

10. PENTAHO ANALYSIS Pentaho analysis makes it easy for users to explore information interactively by dynamically drilling down into greater detail. Data can be viewed multidimensionally. Uses technology optimized for rapid interactive response.

11. It becomes easy to analyze and explore data through pentaho analysis

12. Some of pentaho analyses features: Rich graphical displays and sophisticated OLAP capabilities. Pentaho user console. Pentaho schema workbench. Broad data source support. Pentaho aggregation designer.

13. PENTAHO DATA INTEGRATION Pentaho data integration delivers powerful extraction, transformation and ETL capabilities using an innovative, meta driven approach. Productivity can be increased because of the graphical drag and drop design.

15. Advanced data warehousing support

16. Enterprise class performance and scalability

17. Data plug-ins and ERP connectors Data integration enterprise console. Modern, standard based architecture.

18. PENTAHO DASHBOARDS With pentaho dashboards every user gets visibility to important metrics as it provides: Rich, interactive visual display. Integration with pentaho analysis and reporting. Integrated alerting and portal integration. Pentaho dashboards allows users to drill from KPIS into underlying reports and analysis.

19. Immediate visibility and integrated alerting is provided for individual or departmental performance.

20. Some of the features of pentaho dashboards include: Flexible deployment options. Easy information access by subjects or roles. Security compliance. Rich graphical displays. Pentaho user console. Pentaho dashboard designer.

21. PENTAHO DATAMINING Datamining is a process of running data through sophisticated algorithms and to uncover meaningful patterns and correlations among the data. Helps to predict future events based on historical patterns. Pentaho data mining is different by its use of weka data mining project, open and standard compliance nature and tight integration with core BI capabilities including data integration, reporting, analysis and dashboards.

22. Some of the features of pentaho data mining include: Providing insight into hidden patterns and relationships in your data. Provides indicators for future performance. Enables embedding of recommendations in applications. Provides powerful data engine machine. Powerful graphical design tools. Wide range of algorithms.

23. Datamining is done in following steps: Choosing a model graphically which includes many forms of data mining such as clustering, segmentation, decision trees, random forests, neural nets and principal component analysis. Value added features can be added to data. Adapting the parameters to best fit to the sample data. Evaluating the results. Perfecting, here the model is perfectly trained. Output is delivered via graphical decision tree or a simple statement within another application.

24. why pentaho is worlds leading, most popular open source BI suite? Its easy to deploy, easy to maintain and easy to use. Its low cost and fully supported business intelligence. Its used by all leading organizations globally. Provides full spectrum BI capabilities including reporting, interactive analysis, dashboards, data integration/ETL, data mining and a BI platform.