Pentaho Business Analytics Platform

Ingest, Prepare, Blend and Analyze

DATA SHEET

Figure 1. Pentaho Business Analytics Platform

Power to the

User – Any User

Business and IT

Collaboration

Enterprise Governance

and Scalability

Easily Embeddable

Into Enterprise

Applications

Insight Into All Data

(Big and Diverse Data)

Public/Private Clouds

Operational Data

Big Data Data Stream

100% Java Open Web-Based APIs Pluggable Architecture

Data Integration

• Access

• Transformation

• Enrichment

• Blending

• Orchestration

Business Analytics

• Visualizations

• Ad Hoc Analysis

• Reporting

• Dashboards

By tightly coupling data integration with business analytics, the Pentaho platform from

Hitachi Vantara brings together IT and business users to ingest, prepare, blend and

analyze all data that impacts business results. Pentaho’s open source heritage drives

continued innovation in a modern, uniﬁed, ﬂexible analytics platform that helps organi-

zations accelerate their analytics data pipelines.

Pentaho’s open, embeddable platform (see Figure 1) supports

ﬂexible analytics that both leverage existing data infrastructure

and future-proof deployments against tomorrow’s inevitable

changes. Intuitive data integration and preparation capabilities

drastically reduce the hand coding required to bring data together

for insight. At the same time, Pentaho Business Analytics pro-

vides a spectrum of analytics for all user roles, from visual data

analysis for business analysts to tailored dashboards for execu-

tives. Pentaho is fast to deploy, easy to use, and purpose-built for

the future of analytics.

Data Integration

Organizations face an increasing challenge to manage and extract

value from a growing variety and volume of data across their

edge-to-cloud infrastructure. With Pentaho Data Integration (PDI),

organizations can access data from complex and heterogeneous

sources and blend it with existing relational data to produce

high-quality, ready-to-analyze information — all without writing a

line of code. A rich graphical user interface paired with a powerful

multithreaded transformation engine offers high-performance ETL

(extract, transform and load) capabilities that cover all data integra-

tion needs, including big data ingestion and processing.

Pentaho Data Integration Features

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Intuitive drag-and-drop interface to simplify the creation of analytic

data pipelines (see Figure 2).

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Broad connectivity to virtually any data source, either on premises

or in the cloud, including ﬂat ﬁles, relational database management

systems (RDBMS), APIs and more

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Integration with transactional databases, including Oracle, IBM

DB2

, PostgreSQL, MySQL and others.

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Access to data in enterprise applications, including SAP,

Salesforce.com, Google Analytics and more.

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Rich library of prebuilt components to access, prepare, blend and

cleanse data.

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Direct access to complete analytics, including charts, visualiza-

tions and reporting from any step of PDI.

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Robust orchestration capabilities to coordinate complex work-

ﬂows, including scheduling and alerts.

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Integration of advanced analytic models from R, Python, Scala and

Weka that incorporate libraries, such as scikit-learn, Spark MLlib,

Tensorﬂow and Keras, into the data ﬂow.

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Enterprise-grade administration, scalability, load balancing, container-

ization* and security capabilities.

Big Data

The Pentaho platform enables companies to realize business value

from large volumes of diverse data by dramatically reducing the

time and complexity required to design, develop and deploy big

data analytics. Pentaho covers the entire big data life cycle, from

data extraction and preparation of diverse data, to scalable pro-

cessing on Spark and Hadoop, leading to end-to-end analytics

solutions.

Pentaho Is the Leading Solution for Big Data Integration and

Analytics

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Visual design environment for blending multiple big data sources

(see Figure 3) and processing data at scale.

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Integration with leading Hadoop distributions, object stores,

NoSQL stores and analytic databases, as well as log ﬁle data and

JSON/XML formats.

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Code-free data transformation design that empowers 15 times

faster productivity versus hand coding and executes Spark or

Hadoop jobs in clusters for high performance.

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Operationalize with Spark stream and batch job execution, SQL

on Spark connectivity, Kafka access and more.

Figure 2. Drag-and-Drop Data Transformation in Pentaho Data Integration

Figure 3. Variety of Big Data Sources Supported by Pentaho

“Using Pentaho, we are now helping clients blend a 360-

degree view of all equipment data sources to enable early

prediction of potential machinery failure.”

– Caterpillar Marine Asset Intelligence

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Seamlessly switch between execution engines such as Spark and

Pentaho’s native engine to ﬁt data volume, velocity and transfor-

mation complexity.

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Template-based approach to rapidly onboard data sources into

Hadoop via metadata injection feature set.

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Adaptive big data layer that enables smooth portability of transfor-

mations across different Hadoop and Spark distributions.

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Seamlessly scale data transformations with containerized

architecture.

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Pragmatic solutions to deliver on-demand data marts in a big data

environment.

Multicloud Support

Extend the beneﬁts of the open, extensible Pentaho platform to

address a wide range of needs in multi, hybrid and private cloud

deployments. Pentaho’s modern data architecture simpliﬁes man-

agement of your increasingly distributed data architecture with a

single data management tool.

End-to-End Data Platform

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Connectivity to cloud storage and computing in AWS, Google

Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

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Support for popular cloud data warehouses, including Amazon

Redshift, Snowﬂake and Google BigQuery.

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Big data processing in Amazon EMR and HDInsight environments.

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Filtering and contextual analysis of streaming data in AWS Kinesis

and Kafka.

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Bulk loading for popular cloud data warehouses, including

Amazon Redshift and Snowkﬂake.

Business Analytics

Pentaho Business Analytics provides a modern, highly interactive,

and intuitive web-based interface for business users to discover

and

explore virtually any data. With a full spectrum of analytics tools,

users can create reports and dashboards as well as visualize and

analyze data across multiple dimensions without dependence on IT

or developers. Meanwhile, IT beneﬁts from secure, scalable and gov-

erned analytics for the whole enterprise. Pentaho can be deployed

on premises or in the cloud and can be seamlessly embedded into

other software applications. Pentaho Business Analytics provides:

Ad Hoc Analysis and Visualization

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A rich library of interactive visualizations such as geographic maps,

heat grids, bubble charts and more (see Figure 4).

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Extreme scale of in-memory data caching for speed-of-thought

analysis on large data volumes using a drag-and-drop paradigm.

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Visual lasso ﬁltering and zooming to understand or exclude

outliers.

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Attribute highlighting for better visual contrast among data

displays.

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The ability to drill down into supporting reports for detailed data.

Flexible Dashboards

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Web-based drag-and-drop dashboard designer for business

users.

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Portal and mashup integration to seamlessly integrate business

analytics with other web applications.

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Rich visualizations with navigation, drill-down capabilities and a

library of ﬁlter controls.

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Advanced dashboard framework for 100% tailored user

experiences.

User-Driven Reporting

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Full support for operational reports, parameterized reports, and

interactive self-service reporting against transactional databases.

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Intuitive web-based interactive reporting for business users.

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Rich graphical pixel-perfect report designer for power users.

Mobile Business Analytics

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Ability to access data discovery, interactive analysis and visualiza-

tion on mobile devices.

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Optimized mobile experience with native gestures, such as touch ﬁlter-

ing, drill through and touch-enabled drag and drop.

Figure 4. Heat Grid Analysis in Pentaho Business Analytics

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Embedded Analytics

Pentaho’s ﬂexible cloud-ready platform is purpose-built for

embedding into and integrating with your applications, portals

and processes. Our powerful analytics and extensible architecture

ensure that you can get to market quickly and delight your custom-

ers. Our embedded analytics solution offers:

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The ability to seamlessly embed real-time visualizations reports

and dashboards into existing applications. (See Figures 5 and 6.)

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Highly customizable web-based user interface and robust web

APIs that offer maximum control over the look, feel and user

experience.

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Flexible capabilities for multitenant deployment as well as rich

single sign-on and security integration.

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Tailored training and access to architect-level staff who have

made hundreds of organizations successful.

Any Analytics, Any Data, Simpliﬁed

Pentaho addresses the barriers that block organizations from get-

ting value from all of their data. Our platform simpliﬁes the process

of preparing and blending any data and includes a spectrum of

tools to easily analyze, visualize, explore, report and predict. Open,

embeddable and extensible, Pentaho is architected to ensure that

each member of your team — from developers to business users

— can easily translate data into value.

Figure 5. Intuitive Dashboard in Pentaho Business Analytics

Figure 6. Pentaho Analytics Capability Embedded Into a Web Application

“After reviewing ve different proprietary and open source platforms, Pentaho emerged as

the best. I believe it is a future-proof solution that will help us to ensure data governance,

‘one version of the truth,’ and a great user experience.”

– CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research

* 9.0 Beta Feature