This document summarizes InfoAxon's approach to enhancing Pentaho-based business intelligence (BI) deployments using their "Open Source Platforming" methodology. It highlights how InfoAxon has customized Pentaho with new features and integrated other open source components to create standardized, pre-packaged BI solutions. This approach aims to provide more value than a basic Pentaho implementation by offering solutions that are optimized for performance, have advanced data loading behaviors, and support continuous integration and agile development. The document argues this can result in more affordable and business-ready BI solutions for customers with faster turnaround times and lower total cost of ownership compared to traditional BI systems.

1. WhitePaper
Open Source Platforming for
Pentaho based BI solutions
Enhancing value of Pentaho based BI
deployments using InfoAxon’s ‘Open Source
Platforming’ approach
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Overview
Organizations are under continuous pressure to improve their business performance, cut costs and do more with less. Also they are
expected to quickly launch new solutions and services to capitalize on changing business environment and capture greenfield
business opportunities.
Today‟s Knowledge Workers are also becoming more and more demanding and need business intelligence which aids their day-to-
day work and not just few standard business reports with pre-formatted data. And they need it in the way which makes sense to
them with full control of their data and how they want to analyze the data. Knowledge Worker Productivity Improvement is fast
becoming one of the key drivers for BI Solutions.
This is posing great challenge to IT teams in organizations today. They are expected to be innovative, deliver flexible business
intelligence solutions to manage fast changing requirements and reduce costs, all at the same time.
Why InfoAxon for your Pentaho based BI Solution
InfoAxon has over a decade experience of working with and contributing to open source eco-system. Our Open Source BI
Practice does not view Pentaho just as a piece of technology; rather we view it from creating innovative BI Solutions for our
customer needs. The BI practice ensures that the Pentaho based BI Solution is properly designed, architected, integrated and
deployed with right support and governance mechanisms. We have enhanced and customized Pentaho with new features,
innovative integration with other 3rd party framework & components and developed further add-ons „Solution Accelerators‟ to
standardize and fast-track BI Solutions implementations.
Pentaho Comments InfoAxon innovative Comments
customization pre-packaged
approach Pentaho Platform
(adopted by approach
any other Open
source vendor)
Open Source Yes Pentaho is open source and Yes We have many more open source
provides the usual benefits of components well integrated other
using open source software than Pentaho. These open source
components can be customized
further to make the stack
"Business Ready" for Pentaho
users
Cost Yes Traditional benefits of adopting Affordable Solutions that are good value for
open source. You can avail implementation money since they offer much
either free or commercial open (much more value more than what you get from a
source versions of Pentaho for money) basic Pentaho implementation;
Pre-packaged suites lowers your
total cost of ownership and fast
track project implementations
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Open Source No Most of the vendors have just Yes Dedicated Open Source BI
BI Practice Pentaho specific skills. This Practice resulting into customized
approach is just to implement and faster BI Solutions for specific
Pentaho as a technology verticals or specific business
product and not create & own problems
BI Solution.
Rich No Not provided by Pentaho by Rich Dashboards Uses other integrated open source
Dashboards default and for many projects available for software to provide rich and
require significant customization implementation attractive dashboards
Test Suite No When implementing projects no Typical Test cases When implementing projects you
additional standard test cases and Test plan for get ready test cases and test
and test plan suites are Pentaho project part plans
available tuned for Pentaho of Platform
development
Business No Pentaho out of the box still Yes Integrated stack makes it easier
Ready needs a lot of customization to put into production and leads
and understanding to be put to faster turnaround times
into production
Making your No Does not provide a Innovative and Agile You get an innovative and agile
development development environment that development development environment that
faster and fast tracks your project environment supports continuous integration
Agile development; Mostly this is on our Pentaho projects
developed by project teams
High No The data access layer for Enhanced data Pentaho layer is optimized for
Performance production grade volumes is access layer business use and cuts down the
optimized often needed to be modified compared to "Problem Finding" and fixing
Data Access and optimized but takes time to Pentaho loops; In summary saves you time
Layer get right
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Better Data No Standard ETL capabilities Advanced Logging, For example missing data loading
Load (nothing special that will make audit and later;
Behaviours your ETL process data load compliance is built in
behaviour faster) the fusionBI tool kit
and the data load
behaviour while
building your DW
will be more
manageable and
transparent
To the end customers, we provide innovative & cost- effective BI Solutions that meet their needs as opposed to traditional BI
systems that come with rigid, large footprints and require big budgets to implement. Also, since we already have repository of pre-
built, pre-integrated and pre-tested BI solutions which caters to most of the common BI scenarios, considerably less effort is
required to implement and maintain BI solutions for the customers resulting into faster turnaround and lower TCO.
InfoAxon has a full blown open source BI practice which takes care of pentaho based BI integration in standardized manner. To
know more about please read our Pentaho BI Capability Paper.
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Our Customer Showcase
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6. About InfoAxon Technologies
InfoAxon is a leading provider of enterprise services and business
solutions powered by open source. We design, architect and support
complete “Enterprise Solution Platforms” using Open Standards, Web 2.0
next generation technologies and Open Source Frameworks providing
end-to-end solutions to business problems.
India‟s First Global Open Source Integration Company
We are India's First Global Open Source Integration Company providing
business solutions in areas of Content & Knowledge Management,
Web2.0 Collaboration and Business Intelligence powered by our
unique open source „Platforming‟ expertise.
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