Pentaho Roadmap 2007

The Pentaho Roadmap for 2007 is HERE! The major investment themes of 2007 for Pentaho include ease of use, maintenance and administration, and platform extensions.

Check out the roadmap at http://community.pentaho.org/roadmap/ . Let us know what you think! Email your comments, questions or concerns to roadmap@pentaho.com.

Satyam and Pentaho Strike Strategic Alliance

Pentaho and Satyam are pleased to announce a strategic alliance to deliver technology and implementation expertise to address the full spectrum of business intelligence market needs across all verticals and geographies.

With a large pool of Satyam employees providing consulting and business development expertise around Pentaho’s Open BI Suite, this alliance represents the largest consulting partnership in the open source BI market.

Click here to read the full press release.

Case Study: Unionfidi S.C. Deploys Balanced Scorecard Application Powered by Pentaho

 Unionfidi S.C. has deployed Pentaho’s Open BI Suite to deliver a balanced scorecard, reporting, and analysis application that provides vital information and decision support to multiple departments. Two Heads I.T., a Pentaho Certified Partner, led the implementation and drove the project from initial requirements to deployment in only eight weeks.

Check out the case study with additional details on Unionfidi S.C.’s implementation of Pentaho, available at http://www.pentaho.com/products/demos.

"OLAP for MySQL using Mondrian" Webinar Replay Available

Pentaho and MySQL provide a great combination to deliver world-class OLAP applications on an open source foundation using Pentaho’s Mondrian OLAP project and MySQL 5.

In this Web Seminar you will get a look at:

  • Pentaho’s Mondrian OLAP project, which provides high-performance, interactive OLAP on top of MySQL
  • OLAP technologies including dimensional data models, query languages, and OLAP schemas
  • Case Studies
  • Why Pentaho-MySQL is the best way to deliver OLAP and analytical solutions

Visit http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/on-demand-webinars/pentaho-20061024.php to play this webinar at your convenience, on-demand!

Latest Releases

Mondrian and JFreeReport rolled out new releases early this month. Download Mondrian 2.2.2 or JFreeReport 0.8.7-10 today.

Upcoming Training Events

Two courses being offered for the months of November and December:

Building Analytic Solutions
with Pentaho
Operational Reporting using the Pentaho BI Platform
Internationalization Updates

We have new Simplified Chinese additions to our translated documentation. Click the links below to download:

New Tech Tips

Trend Lines in Mondrian
Take a look at forecasting with trend lines in Mondrian.

MDX Calculations: Previous Period Growth
Learn how to implement some common MDX calculations using the SteelWheelsSales sample cube.

MDX Calculations:Percentage Shares and Allocations
The second article in the series on common MDX calculations.

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