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Pentaho Corp., creator of the popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, recently announced delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides general availability of major new enhancements including an enterprise BI metadata layer that streamlines use of BI data as well as a thin-client reporting interface enabling business users to create their own ad hoc queries and reports.
Business user self-service enables flexibility and agility for users who need to answer their own unique business questions while preserving centralized security, business definitions, and IT control. Pentaho is the first company to provide these capabilities in an open source BI suite, dramatically increasing the value of the Pentaho platform to end-user organizations.
Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6 brings the benefits of open source BI to more users than ever before,” said Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho Corporation. “Whether they’re looking for a departmental solution or an enterprise-class BI suite delivering full business user self-service, Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6 provides a standards-based, open source alternative for their full spectrum of BI needs.”
A centralized metadata layer allows IT professionals to create reusable business definitions for business-user reporting, while abstracting users from the underlying structure and complexity of corporate applications and databases. From a web technology perspective, Pentaho 1.6 improves on traditional approaches by using thin-client AJAX technology for maximum interactivity and enterprise-class scalability.