Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), recently announced Pentaho BI Suite Version 3, aimed at making it cost effective for businesses to deploy easy–to–use, robust BI capabilities to users throughout the organization.

New For Business Users: With Version 3, Pentaho has added an easy–to–use, web-based graphical dashboard designer requiring no training for business users, who can easily define personalized, interactive dashboards, including Adobe Flash–based visualizations, using theme–based templates. The dashboards can incorporate reports, analysis views and other Pentaho content, along with filter controls that synchronize dashboard content based on user selections for time periods, product lines, regions, and more. A demonstration of the new dashboard capabilities is available on the Pentaho site.

New For IT Users: Pentaho BI Suite Cloud Computing Edition is packaged for deployment in Cloud computing environments and will be delivered as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for deployment on Amazon EC2, so costs scale with usage, avoiding the onerous named–user, perpetual licensing structures of traditional BI packages. Cloud BI brings many of the benefits of software as a service (SaaS) to custom BI applications, including lower up–front costs and simplified infrastructure management. The new delivery model builds on the traction Pentaho has already established in Cloud business intelligence deployments with clients like Nutricia.

"The new dashboard design capabilities in Pentaho BI Suite Version 3 will provide immediate benefit by letting our business users pull together existing BI content and easily create a comprehensive view of the information they need most. Pentaho Version 3 delivers a solid foundation for intuitive, self–service dashboard creation, and we're excited about the rapid evolution that Pentaho's community–enabled model continues to deliver." – Peter Schmidt, Director of Business Intelligence at Centro.

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