The open source platform thrives on participation and cooperation. There are several communication channels available where you can get in contact with the community including blogs, forums, IRC and the Pentaho Community Mailing List.
With Pentaho Marketplace you can easily download and install plugins developed by the Pentaho Community, extending the capabilities of your Pentaho platform.
See the instructions on Github for the Marketplace-metadata project. As a side note, the Marketplace itself is a plugin, and the code is available at Github.
Pentaho's modern, simplified, and interactive approach empowers business users to access, discover and blend any data types regardless of their size. With a full spectrum of increasingly advanced analytics tools, from basic reports to predictive modeling, users can help themselves to analyze and visualize data across multiple measures and dimensions without being dependent on IT.
Pentaho’s Data Integration, also known as Kettle, delivers powerful extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) capabilities. You can use this stand-alone application to visually design transforms and jobs that extract your existingdata and make it available for easy reporting and analysis.
The Report Designer is a graphical tool that generates reports from data streamed through the Data Integration engine without the need for any intermediate staging tables. You can output your reports in several formats, includingPDF, Excel, HTML, rich-text-file, XML. and CSV.
Pentaho Marketplace allows users to explore and test the plugins that are most relevant for them. Download and install plugins developed by the Pentaho Community, extending the capabilities of your Pentaho platform.
The Aggregation Designer provides a simple interface that allows you to create and deploy aggregate tables to improve the performance of your Pentaho Analysis (Mondrian) OLAP cubes.
The Schema Workbench is a visual design interface that allows you to create and test Mondrian OLAP cube schemas. You can present your data multi-dimensionally and let users select which dimensions and measures to explore, interactively drilling into cross-tabulating data.
Metadata Editor is a tool that simplifies your experience when creating reports, and allows you to build metadata domains and relational data models.
Pentaho uses an abstraction layer to facilitate supporting a broad set of Hadoop distributions and version updates. The plugins which enable compatibility with a specific distribution are called /shims/. Use the link below to get a list of the currently support distributions and versions.
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