Components

The BI Platform consists of the BI Server and the following client tools and add-ons:

• Metadata Editor
• Design Studio
• Pentaho Administration Console for Community Edition users, and PentahoDoc:Pentaho Enterprise Console for Enterprise Edition users.

The BI Server can be built as a standalone WAR that can be deployed to an existing server, but it is typically bundled by Pentaho with the above-listed tools, plus the Apache Tomcat application server version 5.5, and the MySQL relational database version 5.0. This forms a self-contained, Web-based framework for managing and creating business intelligence solutions.

Features

The BI Server Platform offers the following functionality:

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

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