Happy Holidays -- Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.2 is Generally Available!

We’ve reached the finish line! Pentaho 1.2 is now generally available. Together,

• we’ve gone through three release candidates,
• found 925 issues and enhancements,
• and resolved 650 (over 70%) of the reported issues and enhancements.

Although we are moving on to the next version, we will continue to improve the 1.2 release with better documentation and updates for critical improvements and issues. The Release Candidate forum will be locked for new posts; however, the content will be searchable and available. Additionally, we have improved our documentation (see the Introducing... the Documentation Wiki in this newsletter).

Download the 1.2 release now!

We thank you for your support and help through this year of intense development and growth. Stay tuned for announcements concerning more ways for you to get involved with the project!  

In conjunction with the release of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.2 GA, the Pentaho team has moved all of the project documentation to a new wiki format. We are excited to have all documentation in a format that encourages community collaboration, feedback and contributions.

Check out the new documentation at http://wiki.pentaho.org . Feel free to comment and give us feedback on the new wiki in our documentation forum.

Pentaho is a business intelligence platform in the extreme. Its many standards-based interfaces provide almost unlimited flexibility and the ability to integrate BI into a variety of enterprise architectures, both up and down the stack.

The Advanced Imlpementation Workshop is an intensive hands-on workshop, guided by the Pentaho development and product management teams, giving participants insight into the design philosophy and deployment scenarios intended for Pentaho and supported by Pentaho Management Services.  Emphasis is placed on points of integration with 3rd-party security APIs, application servers, portals and source code control systems.

This is a 3 day workshop, offered January 30, 2007 to February 1, 2007. Cost is $995 USD per attendee; attendance is limited. Take advantage of this unique opportunity and register today.

Google Code (http://code.google.com) is featuring Pentaho's AJAX-based integration with the Google Maps API. Pentaho's example was selected as a compelling and innovative example of the flexibility and power of the Google Maps API.

To see the Google Maps integration in action, download the Pentaho Open BI Suite Pre-Configured Installation (PCI) demo. In the samples that ship with the PCI, navigate to Solutions, Samples, Steel Wheels, Dashboards, Google Maps. There you will find an interactive sample that demonstrates mapping with Pentaho Dashboards and Pentaho sample data.

Download the Pentaho demo and test drive Google Maps integration today at http://www.pentaho.org/download/latest.html.

• Extract Transform and Load (ETL) Mappings  
• ETL Jobs  
• Reporting Data Models (ie, Dimensional Models, staging tables, summary tables, aggregates)  
• OLAP Schema Definitions  
• Operational Reports  
• Analytic Reports