PENTAHO

OVERVIEW
• Intro to Pentaho.
• Pentaho BI suite enterprise edition.
• Query and Reporting.
• OLAP Analysis.
• Data integration.
• Dashboard.
• Data mining.

INTRO TO 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.
• 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.

PENTAHO BI SUITE ENTERPRISE EDITION
PROVIDES:
• Query and Reporting.
• OLAP Analysis.
• Dashboard.
• Data mining.
• Workflow.
• ETL capabilities for business intelligence needs.

PENTAHO ENTERPRISE EDITION
FEATURES:
• Professional Support.
• Software Maintenance.
• Enhanced Functionality.
• Certified Software.
• Product Expertise.
• Software Assurance.

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

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.

SAMPLE OF PENTAHO REPORT

PENTAHO ANALYSIS
• Pentaho analysis makes it easy for users to explore information interactively by
dynamically drilling down into greater detail.
• Data can be viewed multidimensional.
• Uses technology optimized for rapid interactive response.
• It becomes easy to analyze and explore data through pentaho analysis

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.

SAMPLE OF PENTAHO ANALYSIS

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.

SOME OF PENTAHO DATA INTEGRATION
FEATURES:
• Its full featured enterprise class ETL solution includes:
– rich transformation library
– Advanced data warehousing support
– Enterprise class performance and scalability
– Data plug-ins and ERP connectors.
• Data integration enterprise console.
• Modern, standard based architecture.

SAMPLE OF PENTAHO DATA
INTEGRATION

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

SOME OF PENTAHO DASHBOARDS
FEATURES:
• Flexible deployment options.
• Easy information access by subjects or roles.
• Security compliance.
• Rich graphical displays.
• Pentaho user console.
• Pentaho dashboard designer.

SAMPLE OF PENTAHO DASHBOARD

PENTAHO DATAMINING
• Data mining 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.

SOME OF PENTAHO DATA MINING
FEATURES:
• 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.

SAMPLE OF PENTAHO DATA MINING

DATA MINING 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.

ADVANTAGES OF PENTAHO:
• Its easy to deploy, easy to maintain and easy to use.
• Very intuitive tool, with some basic concepts can make it works. Conceptually very
simple and powerful.
• 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

DISADVANTAGES OF PENTAHO:
• The design of the interface can be a bit poor and there is no unified interface for all
components, being sometimes confusing.
• Much slower tool evolution and uncertain because Pentaho tends to leave the Open
Source focus.
• Limited availability of components.
• JavaScript code written in the step components can not be reused in other
components. Fairly limited to adding new functionality or modify existing ones.