Pentaho Announces Pentaho Report Designer; Donates Source Code to Open Source Community to Deliver Market-Leading Ease of Use for Reporting.ORLANDO Orlando, city, United States Orlando (ôrlăn`dō), city (1990 pop. 164,693), seat of Orange co., central Fla., in a lake region; inc. 1875. In a citrus fruit and farm area, it is one of the world's most visited vacation spots. , Fla. -- Pentaho The Pentaho BI Project is Open Source application software for enterprise reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities for Business Intelligence (BI) needs. It was awarded Project of the Month on October 2006 at SourceForge. Corp., the world's leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) software, announces Pentaho Report Designer, based on the acquisition of the product from gridvision engineering GmbH GmbH Gesellschaft mit Beschränkter Haftung (German: limited liability company; business entity) , who had built the designer specifically for use with Pentaho Reporting. Addressing Market Needs Pentaho has become the fastest-growing open source BI project by listening to the needs of the Pentaho community. Pentaho Reporting users had asked for a graphical report designer that would simplify and accelerate report development, and make report creation accessible to a wider audience of users. A recent survey on open source BI by Ventana Ventana Medical Ventana Medical is one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of medical diagnostic instrument and reagent systems providing leading-edge automation technology for use in slide-based diagnosis of cancer and infectious disease. Research, downloadable from http://www.pentaho.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. , also highlighted a "graphical report design environment" as one of the most valuable features of an open source BI project, second only to "a complete BI suite," which Pentaho also provides in open source. "Our research shows that users want robust report development options in their open source BI tools," said Dan Everett, Research Director at Ventana Research. "Based on the survey data, users place a high value on graphical report design environments, and this move should provide great value to Pentaho's community." Accelerating Report Creation The Pentaho Report Designer simplifies and streamlines the report creation process, making it easy for report authors to quickly create sophisticated, visually rich reports in a drag-and-drop authoring environment. Supporting a tree display of the report showing all report objects, an interactive property editor, multi-selection and editing of objects, subtotals, conditional formatting and more, Pentaho Report Designer provides a high degree of authoring control in an extremely easy-to-use, intuitive interface. Interested users are invited to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. , try, and use Pentaho Report Designer, which is available at http://www.pentaho.org/download/. "We're very pleased with the capabilities of Pentaho Report Designer," said Bryan Senseman, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , of OpenBI. "The addition of Pentaho's Report Designer greatly simplifies report design and development tasks and makes Pentaho's market-leading open source BI platform even more accessible to mainstream BI implementers and users." Immediate Integration with an Open Source BI Platform Pentaho has already delivered integration between Pentaho Report Designer and the Pentaho BI Platform. This integration makes it easy for report authors to publish reports to the Pentaho BI platform for scheduling, bursting, security, and integration with Pentaho's analysis and dashboarding capabilities. While there are alternative open source reporting offerings, Pentaho is unique in providing reporting, analysis, dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard. (2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard. , platform, and data integration capabilities all via open source licensing, instead of requiring an upgrade to an expensive, proprietary BI platform. Contributing to Open Source Originally built as a proprietary software offering, Pentaho has donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. all source code from the acquisition to the open source community as part of the Pentaho project. This reflects Pentaho's continuing commitment to providing the richest set of open source BI capabilities, and to leveraging the open source development model to increase adoption and accelerate innovation at a faster pace than proprietary offerings. Interested contributors are invited to download the source code for Pentaho Report Designer at http://www.pentaho.org/download/. "We chose Pentaho Reporting because of its superior functionality and scalability," said Stefan Marty, Managing Director at gridvision engineering GmbH. "We're pleased that Pentaho will accelerate the adoption and enhancement of the product by contributing it to the open source community." "Pentaho Report Designer sets a new standard for an intuitive and productive report authoring environment," said Richard Daley Richard Daley may refer to:
tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: with the product, and we immediately knew that it should be a part of the open source community. We're happy to be able to put such rich authoring capabilities into the hands of our users." 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'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. For more information on gridvision engineering GmbH, please see http://www.gridvision.ch. |
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