Components

Features

The BI Server offers the following functionality:

• The Pentaho User Console Web interface, which enables easy management of reports and analysis views.
• An ad hoc reporting interface, which offers a step-by-step wizard for designing simple reports. Output formats include PDF, RTF, HTML, and XLS.
• A real-time analysis view interface that allows you to drill down into properly prepared data.
• A complex scheduling subsystem that enables users to set reports to execute at given intervals.
• The ability to email a published report to other users.
• Connectivity with Pentaho Metadata Editor and Pentaho Report Designer, allowing content created with these tools to directly publish to the BI Server.

What's new in 2.0

Version 2.0 is the most dramatic update in the Pentaho BI Server's history. It encompasses many months of work to improve usability, ease of administration, performance, scalability, and extensibility:

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