Italian Financial Firm Unionfidi Deploys Pentaho for Enterprise Business Intelligence.Pentaho and Two Heads I.T. Deliver Balanced Scorecard Balanced Scorecard A performance metric used in strategic management to identify and improve various internal functions and their resulting external outcomes. The balanced scorecard attempts to measure and provide feedback to organizations in order to assist in implementing Application Powered by World's Most Popular Open Source BI Suite ORLANDO, Fla. -- Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced today that Italian commercial finance firm Unionfidi has deployed Pentaho's Open BI Suite to deliver a balanced scorecard, reporting, and analysis application that provides vital information and decision support to multiple departments. Two Heads I.T., a Pentaho Certified See certification. Partner, led the implementation and drove the project from initial requirements to deployment in only eight weeks. Unionfidi is one of Italy's premier financial institutions, facilitating credit access to small- and medium-sized businesses. Established in 1975, Unionfidi is the most important Italian private collective guarantees consortium with over [euro]930,000,000 of guarantees, and over 9,100 commercial customers. The application built with the Pentaho Open BI Suite, called UFIntelligence, is deployed to Unionfidi employees in risk management, accounting, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , marketing, and other departments. The centerpiece of the deployment is a balanced scorecard that provides key metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. from multiple business perspectives including financial, customer, business process, and learning and growth. Users also have access to supporting reports and analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. views linked to the scorecard, and receive standard reports relevant to their roles via e-mail. Users in the Loans Department, for example, receive frequent, timely reports on customer loan deadlines. Pentaho technology drives the reporting, analysis, dashboards, and underlying services for report scheduling, customization, and JBoss Portal integration. In addition, Pentaho Data Integration is used to integrate information from disparate Unionfidi databases as well as the firm's ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. system. Prior to the Pentaho deployment, it was difficult for business users to get an integrated, reliable view of information distributed across multiple databases and applications. Two Heads I.T. took advantage of the openness and extensibility of Pentaho's modular, standards-based architecture to tailor A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor and extend the system to meet Unionfidi's specific requirements. Pentaho Support worked with Two Heads and Unionfidi throughout the deployment to ensure their success. "Pentaho provides a great solution for us," said Davide De Ruvo, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. at Unionfidi. "Pentaho addressed all of our technical and business requirements, was quick to deploy, and provided far better value than other alternatives." "This implementation uses a wide range of Pentaho's BI capabilities, including reporting, analysis, dashboards, and data integration to deploy a data warehouse. This is a classic example of the benefits of our broad functionality and flexible architecture," said Lance Walter, VP of Marketing at Pentaho. "It also demonstrates Pentaho's ability to support highly sophisticated applications for large and demanding organizations." A case study with additional details on Unionfidi's implementation of Pentaho is available at www.pentaho.org . About Two Heads Two Heads I.T., a Pentaho Certified Partner, led the implementation. Founded in January 2005 as a consultancy specializing in implementation of open source technologies, Two Heads has built a business on successful implementations of popular open source projects like the Asterisk PBX Open source PBX software that runs under Linux and other Unix variants on a variety of hardware, including x86, PowerPC, POWER and Xscale. Supporting traditional telephony (TDM) as well as voice over IP (VoIP), Asterisk is written in C and uses the Unix standard POSIX programming , Bacula This article is about computer backup software. For the penile bone found in some mammals, see baculum. Bacula is an open source, network based computer back-up program. network backup, and Pentaho business intelligence. About Pentaho Pentaho provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. 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 a professional open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including JFreeReport, Kettle kettle, oval depression found in glacial moraines, which are landforms made up of rock debris. When a glacier melts and draws away from an area, a block of ice may break off and be covered by earth and rock. , Mondrian, and Weka. Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI KPI Key Performance Indicator KPI Kuwait Petroleum International KPI Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine) KPI Kernel Programming Interface KPI King Pin Inclination (vehicle steering geometry angle) dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting. More information is available at www.pentaho.org. |
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