How is the Pentaho BI Project different from other OSS BI or Analysis projects?
The Pentaho BI Project provides a comprehensive BI suite. This includes reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, and a BI platform necessary for true production deployment. Many other projects that exist address a specific function like reporting, but not the entire BI spectrum. Most also lack the necessary infrastructure like security, administration, auditing, fail-over, scalability features, portal, and other key framework functionality. Beyond that, some projects offer open source reporting, but require an upgrade to an expensive, closed-source offering for web-based deployment or other BI platform functionality. Customers can start with something simple like Reporting from Pentaho and know that they’ll be able to add things like Analysis and Dashboards to their solution if they need it in the future. They’ll know that everything will be integrated, supported, and continuously improving. The Pentaho BI Project gives users peace of mind via longevity, support, and continued inn
