Introduction to Pentaho Analysis
Components
Pentaho Analysis consists of the BI Server and the following client tools and add-ons:
Pentaho Administration Console for Community Edition users, and Pentaho Enterprise Console for Enterprise Edition users.
The Mondrian ROLAP engine
Aggregation Designer
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
Pentaho Analysis offers the following functionality:
The Pentaho User Console Web interface, which enables easy management of reports and analysis views.
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 analysis views to execute at given intervals.
The ability to email a published analysis view to other users.
The ability to create complex analysis schemas.
The ability to improve ROLAP cube performance with Aggregation Designer.
What's new in 3.0.4
Support for Teradata 12.0 (including Grouping Sets)
Improvements to calculated member solve order
Drill through support for calculated members
Bug fixes