Pentaho First to Bring Ad Hoc Analytics to Apple iPad
Business Intelligence Application Lets iPad Users Analyze and
Share Information Anywhere, Anytime
ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwire) - Pentaho Corporation, the open
source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced the
availability of a new Pentaho plug-in bringing interactive analytics to
Apple® iPad? business users. More than 1 million iPads have already been
sold in the U.S., and it is increasingly being adopted by demanding and
mobile professionals world-wide. Pentaho is the first vendor to provide
these users an easy and intuitive way to create new analytical reports
from scratch, as well as navigate and access existing business
intelligence information from the iPad. The Pentaho plug-in for the iPad
is available for download at www.pentaho.com/iPad.
NEWS SUMMARY
- Pentaho is the first to deliver ad hoc analytical
reporting for the Apple® iPad?. The plug-in extension to Pentaho's BI
platform lets iPad users create new analytical reports with Pentaho Analyzer
via iPad's touch-and-drag screen and Analyzer's zero-training user
interface.
- The Pentaho iPad extension allows users to access
information anywhere, anytime and find the answers they need by creating
new analytical reports on the fly. Pentaho Analyzer on the
iPad provides ad hoc query and data visualization capabilities with
rich interactivity and secure content distribution. New analytical
reports created on the iPad can be saved and shared enterprise-wide
through Pentaho's BI platform.
- The Pentaho iPad extension is another deliverable of the
Pentaho Agile BI initiative, aimed at simplifying the use of BI for a
much wider set of users across the enterprise, resulting in faster time
to value and increased ROI.
- Availability -- Pentaho's BI extension for iPad works
with Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 3.6 RC1. Download
and configuration instructions, as well as a short, recorded
video demonstration are available at www.pentaho.com/iPad.
QUOTES AND DETAILS
"We've always been believers in Mobile BI as evidenced
by being the first to support the iPhone
and now the first to support ad-hoc analysis for the iPad," said Richard Daley,
co-founder and CEO of Pentaho Corporation. "With technology like
Analyzer, any business user can create reports in a couple of minutes
with just the touch of a finger. It doesn't get much easier than this."
Download and configuration instructions, as well as a short,
recorded video demonstration are available at www.pentaho.com/iPad.
About Pentaho Corporation
Pentaho Corporation is the open source business
intelligence leader. Thousands of global organizations deploy Pentaho
software to make faster and better business decisions that positively
impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive BI suite
that includes capabilities for data
integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards. The
Pentaho BI suite supports the company's Agile BI initiative, which
enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to
business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90%
less cost than traditional BI vendors. Pentaho was founded in 2004 and
is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.
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