Pentaho Releases Major Update to Open Source BI Suite

Information Management Online, March 24, 2009

Pentaho Corporation announced Pentaho BI Suite Version 3, which allows business users to create interactive dashboards - including Adobe Flash-based visualizations.

Aimed at making it simple and cost effective for businesses to deploy BI capabilities to users throughout the organization, the new BI suite increases the capabilities of a thriving and evolving Pentaho community. The new plug-in framework empowers the community, enabling rapid delivery of significant new features.

Version 3 includes: Web-based graphical dashboard designer, the Pentaho BI Suite Cloud Computing Edition (packaged for deployment on the Amazon EC2 Cloud) and a plug-in framework that allows drop-in extensions and other contributions.

"Pentaho BI Suite Version 3 marks a new step in community cooperation,” said Pedro Alves, director at Webdetails and Pentaho Community contributor “The Community Dashboard Framework team is very proud of its contribution to Pentaho Dashboards. From a technical and organizational perspective, Pentaho has been very supportive of our efforts and continues to make it easier and easier for us to enhance these great products."

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