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Pentaho Announces Pentaho Report Designer; Donates Source Code to Open Source Community to Deliver Market-Leading Ease of Use for Reporting
[June 01, 2006]

Pentaho Announces Pentaho Report Designer; Donates Source Code to Open Source Community to Deliver Market-Leading Ease of Use for Reporting


ORLANDO, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- June 1, 2006 -- Pentaho Corp., the world's leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) software, announces Pentaho Report Designer, based on the acquisition of the product from gridvision engineering GmbH, who had built the designer specifically for use with Pentaho Reporting.



Addressing Market Needs

Pentaho has become the fastest-growing open source BI project by listening to the needs of the Pentaho community. Pentaho Reporting users had asked for a graphical report designer that would simplify and accelerate report development, and make report creation accessible to a wider audience of users.


A recent survey on open source BI by Ventana Research, downloadable from http://www.pentaho.org, also highlighted a "graphical report design environment" as one of the most valuable features of an open source BI project, second only to "a complete BI suite," which Pentaho also provides in open source. "Our research shows that users want robust report development options in their open source BI tools," said Dan Everett, Research Director at Ventana Research. "Based on the survey data, users place a high value on graphical report design environments, and this move should provide great value to Pentaho's community."

Accelerating Report Creation

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. Supporting a tree display of the report showing all report objects, an interactive property editor, multi-selection and editing of objects, subtotals, conditional formatting and more, Pentaho Report Designer provides a high degree of authoring control in an extremely easy-to-use, intuitive interface. Interested users are invited to download, try, and use Pentaho Report Designer, which is available at http://www.pentaho.org/download/.

"We're very pleased with the capabilities of Pentaho Report Designer," said Bryan Senseman, CTO, of OpenBI. "The addition of Pentaho's Report Designer greatly simplifies report design and development tasks and makes Pentaho's market-leading open source BI platform even more accessible to mainstream BI implementers and users."

Immediate Integration with an Open Source BI Platform

Pentaho has already delivered integration between Pentaho Report Designer and the Pentaho BI Platform. This integration makes it easy for report authors to publish reports to the Pentaho BI platform for scheduling, bursting, security, and integration with Pentaho's analysis and dashboarding capabilities. While there are alternative open source reporting offerings, Pentaho is unique in providing reporting, analysis, dashboard, platform, and data integration capabilities all via open source licensing, instead of requiring an upgrade to an expensive, proprietary BI platform.

Contributing to Open Source

Originally built as a proprietary software offering, Pentaho has donated all source code from the acquisition to the open source community as part of the Pentaho project. This reflects Pentaho's continuing commitment to providing the richest set of open source BI capabilities, and to leveraging the open source development model to increase adoption and accelerate innovation at a faster pace than proprietary offerings. Interested contributors are invited to download the source code for Pentaho Report Designer at http://www.pentaho.org/download/.

"We chose Pentaho Reporting because of its superior functionality and scalability," said Stefan Marty, Managing Director at gridvision engineering GmbH. "We're pleased that Pentaho will accelerate the adoption and enhancement of the product by contributing it to the open source community."

"Pentaho Report Designer sets a new standard for an intuitive and productive report authoring environment," said Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho. "Our customers and partners were extremely impressed with the product, and we immediately knew that it should be a part of the open source community. We're happy to be able to put such rich authoring capabilities into the hands of our users."

About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho's mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.

For more information: Pentaho's web site is located at http://www.pentaho.org.

For more information on gridvision engineering GmbH, please see http://www.gridvision.ch.

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