Pentaho BI Suite CE 2.0.0 Available

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.

* Intuitive Navigation and Scheduling – The familiar Explorer-style navigation interface and graphical scheduling
let users leverage existing computing skills to get work done without product training.

* Easy Access to Data Sources – The Pentaho Data Source Catalog centralizes data source management, providing
access to multiple source systems while insulating users from the complexity of underlying application server
and database connections. Administrators can centrally define, maintain and secure all available connections.

* New Administration Console - Help set up and administer the BI Server.

* Faster Analytic Queries – The Pentaho Aggregation Designer analyzes database structures and OLAP schemas, automatically generating aggregate tables that improve performance when working with larger datasets. The Pentaho Aggregation Designer accelerates deployments, improves query performance, and lowers the skill set required for high-performance relational OLAP.

Links

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140317&package_id=160028&release_id=648414
Release Notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=648414&group_id=140317
Forum:
http://forums.pentaho.org/forumdisplay.php?f=73
Wiki Documentation:
http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/ServerDoc2x/BI+Server+2.0+Community+Documentation

For information about the 2.0.0 Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition:
http://www.pentaho.com/the_alternative/
http://www.pentaho.com/products/enterprise/

Client tools updated for 2.0:
* Design Studio:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140317&package_id=171242&release_id=653620
* Metadata Editor:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140317&package_id=212361&release_id=649632
* Report Designer:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140317&package_id=192362&release_id=649631
* Schema Workbench:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=35302&package_id=231604&release_id=652334
* Aggregation Designer:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=35302&package_id=303706&release_id=652199

NOTE:
A stable release of CE software means that it has been available as one or more Release Candidate (RC)
builds for a reasonable period of time and has been tested by the Pentaho community and unit tested by
Pentaho QA. Once a CE build is marked "stable", the testing phase is over and that will be the last
build for that version. While it has not gone through the kind of testing and quality assurance that
Pentaho employs for an Enterprise Edition GA release, it is considered a stable release and is suitable for
development and experimentation.