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Pentaho Overview
Getting accurate, useful information into the hands of business people is one of the chronic challenges facing businesses that want to drive decisions using facts and data. Information stored in operational systems is optimized for recording transactions, not for reporting. Most organizations have multiple applications that are focused on the needs of the sales, manufacturing, accounting and customer service functions, making it difficult to answer business questions that require data spread across different databases. Application upgrades and data quality issues make it difficult to create reports that have lasting information value and result in a fluctuating environment that requires constant change to reports and spreadsheets – or risk rendering them obsolete.

• Document the customer’s information analysis requirements using the language and point of view of the business
• Develop a stable, subject-oriented information model that supports analysis of data from multiple applications
• Integrate and rationalize data from the customer’s transactional systems, consolidating it into a regularly-updated reporting repository that is optimized for trend analysis and historical reporting
• Deploy an easy-to-use, web-based analysis tool that allows business analysts to provide early feedback on the usefulness of the information model
• Create a foundation of reports, analysis views and dashboards and that can be used by executives, managers, analysts and operational users over the web and through e-mail
• Provide functional tool training to lead end-users and business analysts
• Provide operational training that allows the customer’s IT department to sustain and expand the BI deployment over time

Pentaho’s business intelligence pilot is a fixed-price, fixed duration engagement that includes a standard set of deliverables including a working BI application. Subscription-based product support is provided during the pilot and can be extended to support implementation and maintenance.

The Pentaho Open Source Advantage
Historically, license fees for traditional business intelligence and data integration tools have consumed the majority of customers’ project budgets. Pentaho offers enterprise-capable technology using a professional open-source model, and customers may leverage this model to spend a greater percentage of their budget on professional services. Allocating more budget to services allows BI consultants to spend more time with analysts in the critical business discovery and information modeling phases, resulting in a superior design that has a more lasting impact on the business. Pentaho’s professional open source approach also allows customers to expand deployment without concern for per-user or per-seat costs. Pentaho’s support subscriptions provide developer assistance, certified software builds, problem resolution and indemnification using an affordable “per-CPU” model.