Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Platform: Technical White Paper

Overview

Organizations are all looking to increase revenue, lower expenses, and improve profitability by improving efficiency and effectiveness in their business processes and overall performance. Business Intelligence (BI) software vendors claim that they have the technology that can provide this improvement. Vendors concentrate on selling products or tools that can be used to build these solutions but rarely concentrate on the problem the customer is trying to solve. This white paper describes the Pentaho Business Intelligence Platform: a solution-oriented BI Platform that integrates Open Source components and open standards with a process-driven engine.