Pentaho, the Florida based open source business intelligence company, has just announced Pentaho Report Designer and donated the code to the open source community. Pentaho Report Designer is based on GmBH a proprietary product Pentaho has acquired from Gridvision Engineering a Swiss based company.
Pentaho will be a subject of future post but as a summary from their press release:
Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho’s mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho’s technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.
For more information: Pentaho’s web site is located at http://www.pentaho.org.
