The 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2 version of the Pentaho BI Suite Community Edition (CE) is available for download.

New in 3.0:

* Platform Plug in architecture - easier to created plugins and extend the platform framework

* CDF (Community Dashboard Framework) is now a standard part of the platform
- contribution thanks to Pedro Alves (Webdetails.pt), Ingo Klose (SHS VIVEON AG), Tom Barber and others... ... read more

Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) Version 3.2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download.

New in 3.2:

* Visualization improvements: hop color scheme augmented with mini-icons over hops, tooltips (more intuitive)

* New steps and job entries

* Imported Formula step using libformula

* Imported Reservoir Sampling step

* Improvements in existing steps

* Huge pile of bug fixes

* Performance improvements ... read more

A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services. Ranked #1 in open source BI.

Pentaho Report Designer - Citrus Milestone 1 is now available for download.

NOTE: The Citrus release name means we don't know what the release number will be yet. It
will likely be after 2.1... read more

Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) Version 3.2.0 Milestone 1 is now available for download.

New in 3.2:

* Visualization improvements: hop color scheme augmented with mini-icons over hops, tooltips (more intuitive)

* New steps and job entries

* Imported Formula step using libformula

* Imported Reservoir Sampling step

* Improvements in existing steps

* Huge pile of bug fixes

* Performance improvements... read more

The 2.0.0 version of the Pentaho BI Suite Community Edition (CE) is stable and available for download.

New in 2.0:
* New User Interface - The Pentaho User Console offer centralized access to all reports, analysis and dashboards.
Users can interact with, share, or even create new BI content with a few simple clicks. A customizable and embeddable AJAX-based thin client UI easily integrates with third-party portals.... read more

A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services. Ranked #1 in open source BI.

Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announces delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides general availability of major new enhancements including an enterprise BI metadata layer that streamlines use of BI data as well as a thin-client reporting interface enabling business users to create their own ad hoc queries and reports.... read more

Community Connection: New Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Reporting Releases Available
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Pentaho Data Integration 2.4 Released
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We are proud to announce the release of Pentaho Data Integration 2.4. This exciting new release features significant improvements in performance, scalability and ease-of-use.... read more

Welcome to http://forums.pentaho.org ! Pentaho, Mondrian, Kettle, JFreeReport and WEKA now share the same forum home - a full-featured, super fast, personalizable forum home! Many thanks to our community beta testers who have been trying out the new forum software and providing feedback throughout the testing period.

In the interest of making this the best possible resource for our community, we have migrated the threads from all prior forums into the new forums. If you are already a member of these projects, visit the Migration FAQ at http://community.pentaho.org/faq/forum_migration_faq.php to learn how to use your existing account or merge your multiple accounts. If you are new to the community, register for a new account and welcome to the Pentaho projects. ... read more

Pentaho Community Connection
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We are pleased to announce that on December 10, 2006, we will be moving the Pentaho project forums to a new, faster, more full-featured forum site. This move includes the forums for the Pentaho project, the Mondrian project, the Kettle project and the JFreeReport project.

The objective for moving the project forums is simple and sincere - we wish to provide the very best community environment for all of our communities to work, play and develop in. All of the project forums have room to grow toward this objective. Each project (ie., Mondrian, Kettle, Pentaho) will have it's own portal into the forums for those community members who wish to remain focused on the individual project. We also now have the added benefit of providing integrated resources for the community that is using multiple Pentaho projects or the entire BI suite. ... read more

Pentaho Community Connection

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Pentaho Releases First Milestone Build of Pentaho Metadata
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Pentaho has released the first milestone release of Pentaho Metadata(PMD)
including the new Metadata Editor(PME)!

Released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), Pentaho's new open source
metadata capabilities enable administrators to define a layer of abstraction
to shield the common business user from the complexities of underlying
databases. Administrators leverage their deep understanding of source
systems to convert complex tables, relationships, indexes, and other
concepts foreign to a business user, into a user-friendly model reflecting
how they think of their business - in terms like customers, products and
markets. These "business views" can be further enriched by defining security
parameters that limit data access to authorized users, default formatting
for data fields, column suppression, and additional translations for
business views used in multi-lingual deployments. ... read more