Pentaho Announces Software Quality Reports for JIRA.Updated Open Source Project Delivers Best-in-class Reporting and Analysis for Atlassian JIRA JIRA Japan Industries Association of Radiological Systems (trade organization) JIRA Japan Investor Relations Association ORLANDO, Fla. -- Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced another significant contribution to the open source project marrying the benefits of BI to the world's most popular defect tracking In engineering, defect tracking is the process of finding defects in a product, (by inspection, testing, or recording feedback from customers), and making new versions of the product that fix the defects. systems. Specifically, Pentaho has developed and contributed a new application built on the Pentaho Open BI Suite to provide enhanced reporting and analysis of data from Atlassian JIRA. The new solution gives software development professionals dramatically better insight to improve their quality management processes, and showcases the breadth and power of Pentaho's open source BI capabilities. "JIRA users will find that this new solution helps them deliver even more value from their JIRA deployments," said Nicholas Goodman Goodman was a polite term of address, used where Mister (Mr.) would be used today. Compare Goodwife. Goodman refers to:
Developed and distributed by Atlassian, JIRA is a software defect and project management solution. JIRA has achieved widespread global adoption with a customer list that includes companies like Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Cisco, Red Hat, SAP, GE, McDonalds, Citigroup, Fidelity, and more. JIRA's popularity is driven by its rich feature set that includes issue tracking, full text search, customizable workflows, cross-platform support, easy customization, comprehensive alerting and more. This new application, part of the "Software Quality Reports for JIRA/Bugz" project on SourceForge.net, extends and enhances JIRA's reporting and analysis capabilities. Implemented using the Pentaho Open BI Suite, it provides an end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for delivering valuable software quality information to product managers, project managers, development managers, and software engineers. The new solution includes: * Pre-defined ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. mappings to make it easy to extract the relevant information from JIRA * A packaged data model for reporting and analysis that includes staging tables as well as summary tables for fast performance and easy report writing * 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. schema definitions to support high-performance, interactive analysis * Operational reports providing critical day-to-day operational information * Analytic an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics. 2. Expert in or using analysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner. 3. Psychoanalytic. reports that show trends over time including feature burndown, bug closure, and productivity "It's great to see an open source community providing these kinds of extensions to JIRA," said Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Atlassian. "We're pleased to partner with a leader like Pentaho to expand the community and available solutions around JIRA. Our clients will really appreciate these new capabilities." Software Quality Reports is available today and interested users and contributors can access the project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qareports , or link to it from www.pentaho.org/download/latest . The application, as well as the source code are available under the Mozilla Public License Mozilla Public License - open source license and require the Pentaho 1.2 RC3 or later. 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 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 an open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including Mondrian, JFreeReport, and 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. , 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 on Pentaho: Pentaho's web site is located at www.pentaho.org. For more information on Atlassian JIRA, please visit www.atlassian.com. |
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