Pentaho has revamped its commercial open source BI offering for 2011-2012
Now called Pentaho Business Analytics, the new packages are designed to balance product features and running costs for different scales of implementation. Pentaho's packages are now priced on features and users as well as the number of supported server cores.
The new features in the BI suite, Interactive Reporting and Interactive Analyzer, which are geared toward 'self-service reporting' are only available in the Professional and Enterprise Editions with unlimited users. Customers with smaller deployments can access this functionality on the new Limited Edition package but there is a limit of 20 concurrent users.
The annual subscription model with Level 1 and Level 2 support providing by certified local experts (like BizCubed) remains the same. As does the interoperability with other applications and the 'no lock-in' nature of the software that allows customers to continue to adopt the best tools for their operations.
