Pentaho Announces General Availability of Pentaho Spreadsheet Services; Extends the Power of World's Most Popular Open Source OLAP Project to Excel Users.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced General Availability of Pentaho Spreadsheet Services, a joint project with Simba Technologies Simba Technologies is a supplier of standards-based data access solutions located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Simba Technologies specializes in connectivity for ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) and XML for Analysis (XMLA). Inc. that brings the benefits of Pentaho's open source OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. capabilities to Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. users around the world. Under the terms of the agreement, Pentaho is the exclusive distributor of this technology. A Pervasive Business User Application With hundreds of millions of active users, Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. has established itself as one of the favorite applications of business users. People have taken advantage of Excel for years for its easy ability to create basic reports and analytical views of information. Excel has also added features like Excel PivotTables that make it the interactive, analytical tool of choice for many business users. Pentaho Spreadsheet Services allows business users to access OLAP data using Microsoft Excel's PivotTable capabilities. PivotTables provide an easy, interactive way for business users to analyze critical business information, by exploring the data to quickly uncover trends or anomalies. For example, a user looking at sales information for last year could easily "drill down" from the yearly summary to break out sales by quarter, compare sales across product lines, or analyze specific sales performance in different geographic regions. Deployment Flexibility Pentaho Spreadsheet Services supports a range of deployment models. It works with both the Professional and Open Source versions of the Pentaho BI Suite. It also supports standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. deployment with Pentaho's popular Mondrian OLAP project. This allows existing Mondrian users to easily add Excel access for end users without making changes to their existing Mondrian applications. Pentaho's Mondrian OLAP project has been widely adopted by customers, partners and other open source projects including Compiere, JPivot, Jasper, OpenI, and more. Pricing and Availability Pentaho Spreadsheet Services is available for purchase today. Pricing starts at $90 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. (in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ) and EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 90 (outside of the United States) for an annual subscription, with a minimum requirement of 5 named users. Interested users should visit http://www.pentaho.org for additional information and to speak with a sales professional. About Pentaho 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 is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including Mondrian, JFreeReport, and Kettle, and 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. For more information: Pentaho's web site is located at http://www.pentaho.org. |
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