BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIESKYMBERLY PERRYPENTAHO SUITE ANALYSIS – WK3

aboutpentahoFounded in 2004 in Orlando, Florida, Pentaho, Inc.,provides a comprehensive, end-to-end open-source BI solution. Pentahao is well known for its unified, embeddable platform that tightly couples both data integration (DI) and business intelligence (BI), OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities.

“It is our mission to not only provide our customers with a business analytics platform that fuels growth and innovation, but also one that is fast to deploy, easy to use and extremely cost-effective.” – Quentin Gallivan, CEO Pentaho

PentahocapabilitiesPentaho offers a suite of products that stems from the involvement of the open source community. Pentaho allows its users to benefit from the value from all business data, including Big Data and improve operational efficiencies, customer experience and compliance while maximizing revenue. (Russom 2013).

The products address the each business need listed below:

Data IntegrationBusiness AnalyticsBig Data AnalyticsEmbedded AnalyticsMobile BI

INFORMATIONINTEGRATION

Pentaho Data Mining is a desktop application that is an Open Source software. Pentaho used the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis to search data for patterns. Weka consists of machine learning algorithms for a broad set of data mining tasks. It contains functions for data processing, regression analysis, classification methods, cluster analysis, and visualization. Based on the discovered patterns, users can predict future trends.

wekadataminingA comprehensive set of tools for machine learning and data mining to enhance organizational insights through predictive analytics.

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Pentaho’s data integration prepares and blends data to create a complete picture for organization that will drive actionable insights. The complete data integration platform delivers accurate, “analytics ready” data to end users from any source. With visual tools to eliminate coding and complexity, Pentaho puts big data and all data sources at the fingertips of business and IT users alike.

Pentaho’s Data Integration (PDI) – is a desktop application (Kettle) that consists of of core data integration (ETL) engine, and GUI applications that allow the user to define data integration jobs and transformations. It supports deployment on single node computers as well as on a cloud, or cluster.

Migrating data between applications or databasesExporting data from databases to flat filesLoading data massively into databasesData cleansingIntegrating applications

PDI can be used as a standalone application, or it can be used as part of the larger Pentaho Suite. As an ETL tool, it is the most popular open source tool available. PDI supports a vast array of input and output formats, including text files, data sheets, and commercial and free database engines. Moreover, the transformation capabilities of PDI allow you to manipulate data with very few limitations.

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Pentaho 5.0 provides an open, unified platform to access, integrate and blend any data, in any environment, across a full spectrum of analytics. A new, modern interface simplifies the analytics experience for all users turning data into a competitive advantage.

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INSIGHTCREATION

“…the ability to develop new insights and use them in the short term or long term, to make better decisions.”

Pentaho for Big Data is a data integration tool based on Pentaho Data Integration.[6] It allows executing ETL jobs in and out of big data environments such as Apache Hadoop or Hadoop distributions such as Amazon, Cloudera, EMC Greenplum, MapR, and Hortonworks.[7] It also supports NoSQL data sources such as MongoDB and HBase.[8]

bigdataanalytics

Within a single platform the Pentaho solution provides visual big data analytics tools to extract, prepare and blend, data plus the visualizations and analytics. Regardless of the data source, analytic requirement or deployment environment, Pentaho allows businesses to turn big data into big insights.

One of the biggest advantages of Pentaho is that it integrates with multiple data sources seamlessly.Pentaho Data Integration 4.4 Community Edition (referred as CE hereafter) supports 44 open source and proprietary databases, flat files, spreadsheets, and more out of box third-party software. Pentaho introduced Adaptive Big Data Layer as part of the Pentaho Data Integration engine to support the evolution of the Big Data stores. This layer accelerates access and integration to the latest version and capabilities of the Big Data stores.

It natively supports third-party Hadoop distributions from MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks, as well as popular NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB. These new Pentaho Big Data initiatives bring greater adaptability, abstraction from change, and increased competitive advantage to companies facing the never-ceasing evolution of the Big Data ecosystem. Pentaho also supports analytic databases such as Greenplum and Vertica (packtpub.com).

Pentaho’s flexible cloud-ready platform is purpose-built for embedding into and integrating with your applications. Its powerful embedded analytics combined with flexible licensing and a strong partner program ensures that its users can get to market quickly, drive new revenue streams, and delight its customers.

PentahoEmbeddedAnalytics

Embedded analytics – is the usage of reporting and analytic capabilities in business applications. These capabilities can be outside the application, but must be easily accessible from inside the application, without forcing users to switch between systems. The integration of a Business Intelligence (BI) platform with the application architecture will enable users to choose where in the business process the analytics should be embedded.

MobileBI

Pentaho Mobile offers a complete business analytics platform, including interactive analysis, rich visualizations, executive dashboards, and enterprise reporting on the iPad. With Pentaho, you receieve a consistent business intelligence and analytics experience across your desktop, laptop and iPad.

Pentaho Mobile is a new addition since 4.5-GA suite that is a user interface adapted for use with the Apple iPad. It exposes all of the major functionality of OLAP analysis and running of reports and dashboards that allow greater interaction on a small, touch screen. Mobile also adds features for bookmarking favorite content for easy access and the concept of opening several pieces of content in tabs. etlapps.com

PentahobusinessanalyticsPentaho's modern, simplified and interactive approach empowers business users to access, discover and blend all types and sizes of data. With a spectrum of increasingly advanced analytics, from basic reports to predictive modeling, users can analyze and visualize data across multiple dimensions, all while minimizing dependence on IT. At the same time, a true designed-for-mobile experience ensures users are productive no matter where they are (pentaho.com).

ORGANIZATIONALMEMORY

“The storage of information and knowledge (especially explicit knowledge) in such a form that they can be later accessed and used...”

Pentaho’s in-memory caching capability enables ad hoc analysis of millions of rows of data in seconds. Pentaho’s pluggable, in-memory architecture is integrated with popular open source caching platforms such as Infinispan and Memcached and is used by many of the world’s most popular social, ecommerce and multi-media websites. In addition, Pentaho allows in-memory aggregation of data – where granular data can be rolled-up to higher-level summaries entirely in-memory, reducing the need to send new queries to the database. This will result in even faster performance for more complex analytic queries.

PRESENTATIONCREATION

“Capability provides inputs to presentation capability, the ability to use appropriate reporting and balanced scorecards tools, and thereby make BI more valuable to its users...”

PentahoDashboardDesigner (PDD)

Pentaho Dashboard Designer (PDD) is a commercial plug-in provided to enterprise edition (EE) subscribers. It allows users to create dashboards, which are collections of other content components displayed together with the goal of providing a centralized view of key performance indicators (KPI)s and other business data movements, letting users monitor them and make decisions. Content components are usually individual Information graphics, tables, OLAP views or reports. The plug-in simplifies dashboard creation through the use of layout templates, drag-and-drop interaction and a GUI for providing parameters and inputs to dashboard components.

Dashboard Designer has dynamic filter controls, which enable dashboard viewers to change a dashboard's details by choosing different values from a drop-down list, and to control the content in one dashboard panel by changing the options in another. This is known as content linking. Dashboard Designer includes the following content types:

Charts: simple bar, line, area, pie, and dial charts created with Chart DesignerData Tables: tabular dataURLs: Web sites that users want to display in a dashboard panel

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conclusion

Pentaho is a young, dynamic organization that offers modern, integrated, embeddable business analytics and a data integration platform built for the future of analytics (g2crowd.com).

Users rave that the client tools are intuitive and easy to use, making it popular in Gartner and Forrester reports.

Pentaho ranked second highest in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for its data access and integration.

According to Butler Analytics Pentaho is broad enough to meet most needs, and is best summarized as a ‘good all-rounder’ – something that will be attractive to business managers who simply want to get a job done.

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