Pentaho Corporation recently announced the immediate availability of its Open Source Pentaho Community Edition 5.0. It is the latest version of business analytics and open source data integration platform. The launch event also included the Pentaho Marketplace, where members of the community can download and explore all available plug ins developed by the Pentaho Community. It has extended the capabilities of the open source platform and permits community members to work together, share feedback and submit or create new plug ins to broaden Pentaho functionality.
According to the company, the new edition offers an economical entry point to people or companies during their first brush with business analytics when they want to visualize and act upon data. It is also an excellent toolset for practiced developers, users and consultants who prefer an open code base to extend the borders of Pentaho and also business analytics.
New features in Pentaho Community Edition 5.0
Pentaho, in collaboration with its community of developers, has made a powerful tools suite that offers an open source option for data analysts and developers to meet their goals. The latest edition includes:
- Business Analytics Platform: The modern, interactive and simplified approach of Pentaho helps business users to discover, access and blend all sizes and types of data. Users can take advantage of a wide range of advanced analytics, that range from simple reports to predictive modeling, and can analyze and also visualize data through multiple dimensions, while at the same time with minimum IT dependence.
- Data Integration: Pentaho Data Integration, better known as Kettle, delivers powerful transformation, loading and extraction capabilities. This is a stand-alone application and is utilized to visually design jobs, and aid easier reporting and analysis.
- Report Designer: Pentaho Report Designer is a graphic design tool which has the capability to generate reports from the data streamed through Pentaho Data Integration engine with no requirement for any kind of intermediate staging tables. Output reports can be in PDF, HTML, XML, CSV, Excel and rich-text file.
- Auxiliary Tools: Users can download various types of auxiliary tools, like Pentaho Aggregation Designer for a simple interface to first create and then deploy aggregate tables that improve the performance of the Pentaho Analysis OLAP cubes. Mondrian Schema Workbench is the open source designer for the visual creating and testing of the Mondrian OLAP cube schemas. The Pentaho Metadata Editor offers a simplified tool that you can use to create reports, build domains of Pentaho Metadata or the relational data models.
