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Pentaho Report Designer Release 1.1.7 Available
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We are happy to announce our next stable build release of the Pentaho Report Designer, milestone release 1.1.7. The Pentaho Report Designer simplifies and streamlines the report creation process, making it easy for report authors to quickly create sophisticated, visually rich reports based upon the Pentaho Reporting project, JFreeReport. ... read more

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Pentaho Announces SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Certification
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It's official - we've completed certification of the Pentaho Open BI Suite on both the server and desktop editions of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 from Novell. Together, Pentaho and SUSE Linux Enterprise provide a compelling solution leveraging open source software to provide superior functionality and value compared to proprietary alternatives.... read more

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Pentaho Analysis Training Offered in Orlando, FL USA
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Responding to great demand from our partners and community, Pentaho is pleased to offer "Building Analytic Solutions with Pentaho " training course in Orlando, Florida, September 18th through the 21st, 2006.... read more

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Pentaho and JBoss: Best Practices for Large Scale Information Delivery
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James (Pentaho's Chief Geek) is back from JBoss World in Vegas, and the folks at JBoss have been kind enough to publish the slides from his standing-room-only presentation, "Scaling Up: Using JBoss Clustering for Large Scale Information Delivery".... read more

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Pentaho Open BI Suite Release Candidate Ready For Download
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We are happy to announce the first release candidate build of the Pentaho Open BI Suite. This release is the first in a series over the coming weeks that will drive us closer to our next GA release, Pentaho Open BI Suite version 1.2. The progress made since our first official GA release in December has been incredible. We've improved the quality and the look and feel of the BI platform, matured and stabilized our solution definitions and the tools used to create solutions, kept abreast of over a dozen different integrated open source projects and moved to their latest versions as they released, the list goes on! ... read more

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June Sets Records For Pentaho - A Big Thank You Goes Out to the Community
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The Pentaho team wants to thank every member of the Pentaho Nation for making June a record month for us. Our project stats went completely off the charts, topping over 54,000 downloads ... in one month!! ... read more

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Pentaho Release Stable Milestone 1.1.7 Now Available
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Stable Milestone Release 1.1.7 of the Pentaho Open BI Suite is now available for download.

This release includes a new look and feel for the Pentaho demo that you must see! Among the many other improvements made in the release, here is a list of the highlights: ... read more

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Business Intelligence With MySQL and Pentaho
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Join MySQL and Pentaho on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 for a Web Seminar showcasing the best approach to delivering reporting and BI solutions.

This webinar has a packed agenda that includes demoing MySQL and Pentaho's complete open source BI solution, presenting case studies, and different approaches to using Pentaho. ... read more

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Pentaho Source Code Available From Public Subversion Repository
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To our community development team: We bring you Subversion!

No more laborious late-night merges or other tedious tasks associated with MIA source control (for which we apologize). You now have direct read access to the Pentaho open source code in our public Subversion repository!... read more

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Pentaho Customer Wins JBoss Innovation Award; Will Present At JBoss World
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Planning to attend JBoss World Las Vegas? Be sure to catch the Galileo, a Cendant Company presentation on their award winning application, built using Pentaho BI Suite Professional Edition!... read more

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Announcing the Pentaho Report Designer
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It's full-featured, easy to use, produces reports lightning fast, completely Open Source, and it's HERE!

We are very excited to give you the Pentaho Report Designer, a new addition to the Pentaho Open Source Project based on the acquisition of the product from gridvision engineering GmbH, who had built the designer specifically for use with Pentaho Reporting. The Pentaho Report Designer simplifies and streamlines the report creation process, making it easy for report authors to quickly create sophisticated, visually rich reports in a drag-and-drop authoring environment. ... read more

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Platform Stable Build Release 1.1.6 Available
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We are happy to announce another stable build release of the Pentaho BI Suite, the Pentaho Design Studio, and the Pentaho Report Design Wizard. This release is a continuation in our effort to streamline the component API, build in performance enhancements, and fix bugs in all of the projects.... read more

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Participate in the OLAP Survey 2006
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Is Mondrian the star of your project? Want to tell the world why you think Open Source OLAP ROCKS? Consider filling out the OLAP Survey 6, the largest independent survey of business intelligence users worldwide.... read more

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Get Milestone Release 1.1.5 Today
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Take this opportunity to upgrade to Milestone release 1.1.5 today! We are releasing early and often, and we would love to get your feedback on our latest milestone build.

The Pentaho Open BI Suite release contains improved chart support (web service access and refactoring), several Pentaho Data Integration (KETTLE) component fixes and addition of an ETL sample, fixes for concurrency issues and many other bug fixes and architectural enhancements. The Design Studio has a number of look and feel changes as well as overall improved stability. The Report Design Wizard release contains many functional enhancements, including greater support for image layout in reports.... read more

Pentaho News May 05, 2006

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Platform Milestone Release 1.1.5 Available
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We are happy to announce another milestone release of the Pentaho BI Suite, the Pentaho Design Studio, and the Pentaho Report Design Wizard.

The BI Platform release contains improved chart support (web service access and refactoring), several Pentaho Data Integration (KETTLE) component fixes and addition of a PDI sample, fixes for concurrency issues and many other bug fixes and architectural enhancements.... read more

Pentaho Joins MySQL Partner Program as a Gold Partner
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Pentaho is excited to announce that we have joined the MySQL Partner Program as a Gold Partner! This partnership formalizes the relationship between MySQL and Pentaho, combining the fastest-growing open source BI offering to the leading open source database platform. Read more about what Pentaho and MySQL are doing together at http://www.pentaho.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=238.... read more

Meet Pentaho CEO, Mondrian Founder at MySQL User Conference 2006

MySQL has invited Pentaho's CEO, Richard Daley, and Mondrian Founder, Julian Hyde, to speak at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara, April 24th through the 27th, 2006.

Julian and Richard will both be representing Pentaho, with Julian leading a presentation on Building OLAP Applications with Mondrian and MySQL (http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8248), and Richard providing an overview of Pentaho's Open BI Suite (http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_spkr/2724). If you are in attendance, stop by their sessions and say hello! ... read more

New Pentaho Milestone Builds Available!

Continuing our dedication to solution-based, easy-to-use Business Intelligence, we gladly announce the availability of new stable milestone builds of the Pentaho BI Suite, the Pentaho Design Studio, and the Pentaho Report Design Wizard. These builds resolve minor usability and functionality issues and include some refactoring to ensure ease of extension and customization. They are another step towards the release of the next generation of the Pentaho suite of applications planned for this quarter. Download the builds today at http://www.pentaho.org/download/latest.html.... read more

Fastest-Growing Open Source BI Project Strengthens Portfolio with Best-in-Class Data Integration:

Linuxworld, Boston, MA – April 4, 2006 - Today, Pentaho Corp., the world’s leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) software, announced the acquisition of the Kettle project. Kettle is the leading open source data integration project, and this combination adds powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities and Enterprise Information Integration (EII) capabilities to Pentaho’s comprehensive, open source BI suite. ... read more

Data Warehousing Veteran Nicholas Goodman Joins Fastest-Growing Open Source BI Project

Orlando, FL – March 21, 2006 - Today, Pentaho Corp., the world’s leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) software, announced that Nicholas Goodman has joined Pentaho as Director of BI Solutions. The addition of Mr. Goodman adds additional data warehousing and open source expertise to the Pentaho team, and positions Pentaho for accelerated growth.... read more

Orlando, FL - February 7, 2006 - Pentaho, the leading provider of open source
business intelligence, announces the availability of new milestone builds of
its BI Workbench and Platform. The improvements in the products underscore
Pentaho's commitment to easy to use, solution-based business intelligence.

Pentaho Platform 1.1 Milestone 1

This stable build of the platform contains new features, new samples, bug
fixes, documentation updates, and library upgrades. Moreover, the build
provides a preview of the features of the upcoming Reporting Server. These
features include... read more

Orlando, FL – January 27, 2006 - The second milestone build (0.9.2) of the Pentaho Report Design Wizard is now available! It was created to facilitate report authoring for JFreeReport. While the Report Design Wizard is flexible in its report generation, it is not possible to solve some specific requirements. The Report Design Wizard bridges the gap between manual editing of XML and having a complete report designer. First-time users will enjoy the ease of use and power of the Report Design Wizard. Meanwhile, expert users will appreciate the time savings the Report Design Wizard provides.... read more

The first milestone build of the Pentaho Report Design Wizard is now available! It was created to facilitate report authoring for JFreeReport. While the Report Design Wizard is flexible in its report generation, it is not possible to solve some specific requirements. The Report Design Wizard bridges the gap between manual editing of XML and having a complete report designer. First-time users will enjoy the ease of use and power of the Report Design Wizard. Meanwhile, expert users will appreciate the time savings the Report Design Wizard provides.... read more

Orlando, FL – December 20, 2005 - Today, Pentaho Corp., the world’s leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) software, announced General Availability of its Business Intelligence (BI) Suite. Delivering on the promise it made when the company was announced in May 2005, Pentaho’s release marks the industry’s first comprehensive and integrated BI suite delivered via a commercial open source model.... read more

We are pleased announce a major new release of the Mondrian OLAP Server, the OLAP Server component of the Pentaho open-source BI Platform.

Mondrian release 2.0.1 (production) adds many new features for building scalable, powerful and flexible Business Intelligence applications on top of Open Source and Commercial databases. This release builds upon the Mondrian 1.1 release, popular for its small footprint, flexible deployment model, and implementation of the industry-standard MDX language. ... read more