4 Reasons Why We Like Pentaho:
1. All of the core engines are open and standalone projects with their own community and development roadmap
- The leads for all the core engines are Pentaho employees (they were hired by Pentaho to integrate the components)
- This goes from the ETL through to the analysis view and data mining
2. The entire stack is Pentaho
- For example, the ETL engine is an integral part of how Pentaho accelerates the time to value
- The components of the platform were developed by Pentaho – they are not a coalition of other people's products
3. The balance between Commercial realities and Open Source is well thought out and permeates the culture
- The Beekeeper Model of Commercial Open Source makes sense – everybody wins when many contribute rather than pay, and some pay rather than contribute
- See James Dixon (CTO) at Pentaho blogs on Honey Bees and farmers, and a response to other COSBI vendors not wanting people to use the open versions
4. Data is the driving element of a successful Analytics project and Pentaho is aggressively innovating in the data management space
- See point two
- Hadoop extensions and integration (one of the first)
- A very 'pluggable' data management layer means that you get a very good toolset that has far broader applicability beyond just the base product
The Pillars of Pentaho:
Reports | Analysis | Dashboards | Data Integration | Data Mining
