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• #21: Pentaho provides a complete, enterprise BI suite from ETL and data integration, through OLAP as well as reporting, dashboards and ad hoc analysis. Our Enterprise Edition BI Suite is modular, enabling users to use the entire set of functionality or to start anywhere that may be a priority such as building and deploying a data warehouse or providing management dashboards. And because Pentaho’s BI Suite is modular, users can easily deploy additional functionality as their needs grow or change. Individually, Pentaho’s BI and data integration applications , Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Analysis, Pentaho Reporting, Pentaho Dashboards and Pentaho Analyzer are purpose built and best of breed, providing users with world class BI and data integration functionality to meet the needs of customers ranging from innovative new companies to Fortune 1000.At the most basic level, Pentaho helps you to turn your data, stored throughout your organization. into actionable business intelligence. This functionality can be divided into three core areas: Accessing data, Optimizing and analyzing data and then visualizing information via reports or dashboards.In terms of accessing data, we integrate with both structured data, such as data stored in a relational database or coming from a core business applications such as CRM or ERP , as well as unstructured complex data via our integration with Apache Hadoop. We offer a graphical interface that allows you to quickly connect and transform data sources simply by dragging and dropping them into the Pentaho development environment.Optimizing data means you can slice and dice data to find meaningful trends, uncover root causes or other business-relevant information. It allows you to “have a conversation with the data”, interactively exploring data as you see fit. Pentaho also provides data mining capabilities to discover hidden patterns in the data for purposes of identifying indicators for predicting future performance.Visualization consists of reports and dashboards. Reporting is often where organizations start with business intelligence, trying to get business information out of existing systems to make it available to business users in an attractive, easy-to-consume format. Pentaho reporting provides both operational reporting such as for invoices or bills of lading, as well as historical and analytical reports.Dashboards have become a very popular BI capability because it lets end users easily see their key performance indicators and business metrics in a very easy-to-consume format. Rather than combing through large volumes of reports, users can immediately see what metrics are on track and which ones require immediate attention.The underlying BI server integrates all of these end-user capabilities, providing developers a single view of data across the entire suite. No other BI vendor offers the unique combination of a comprehensive BI suite with the breadth of Pentaho combined with a single, intuitive development interface that greatly simplifies the creation of new BI applications.To meet the range of user needs, Pentaho can be deployed either as an on-premise or on-demand application. In either deployment scenario, you have the same exact product set and functionality. So it is very easy to migrate in either direction. So if you decide to deploy an initial project in the cloud via the on-demand offering in order to deliver business value more quickly, you can then move it back on-premise at a later date very easily.