Pentaho is an open source / free software project whose goal is to create Business Intelligence solutions. Pentaho's license is the GNU GPL and its principal functionalities are as follows:
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Some important links for Pentaho are as follows:
Main site: www.pentaho.com
Official forum: http://forums.pentaho.com
Official community: community.pentaho.com
We can define Pentaho as a solutions-oriented and process-centered platform:
It is solutions oriented because when we talk about developing or implementing a project in Pentaho, we are talking about developing or implementing a solution. Physically creating a solution in Pentaho means creating a folder with a given path (we will discuss this more in depth soon) The resources and components that will attack this particular business problem are found in a structure in this folder.
It is process...