1. Open Source BI – Pentaho BI Suite
Ramana Reddy G
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2. Contents
1. What is BI?
2. Available Tools - Magic Quadrant
3. Open Source - Advantages & Disadvantages
4. Pentaho BI Components
5. Demo
○ Pentaho Data Integration
○ Pentaho Report Designer
○ Business Intelligence Server
3. What is BI?
Business Intelligence is
1. Identifying and gathering disparate data sources
2. Transforming the raw data into information
3. Extracting insights from information
4. Magic Quadrant BI Tools
Source: Magic Quadrant for
Business Intelligence and Analytics
Platforms From Gartner.com 5 Feb
2013
- Leaders in BI are the commercial
softwares such as SAS, Oracle ,
Tableau etc..
5. Open Source - Advantages &
Disadvantages
Advantages:
- Free of cost (suitable for small & medium enterprises)
- Community support
- Can be customized
- Can be upgraded to commercial versions if required
Disadvantages:
- Not so easy to install and maintain
- Not fully documented
- Support not available
6. Pentaho BI - Components*
Main Pentaho Products
1.Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) enables organizations to extract data from complex and
heterogeneous sources and diverse data types to provide high quality, ready to analyze data for critical
business applications. With a rich graphical user interface and a parallel processing engine, Pentaho Data
Integration offers high performance ETL (extract, transform and load) that supports all data integration needs,
including big data
2.Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) is a desktop application that provides a visual design environment
to create report definitions
3. Pentaho BI Platform Community Edition (CE). The Pentaho BI Platform provides the
architecture and infrastructure required to build solutions to business intelligence (BI) problems. The
framework provides core services including authentication, logging, auditing, web services, and rules engines.
The platform also includes a solution engine that integrates reporting, analysis, dashboards and data mining
components
*There are other components Mondrian Cube designer which is not covered in this session
7. PDI - Demo
Demo PDI
- Import csv file
- Transform the data
- Load to MySQL
