May, 2009 : Infobright and Pentaho Deliver Virtual Machine

📅 May 28, 2009 - Combined offering integrates open source business intelligence; delivers business insight which reduces IT expenses.

Infobright, an open source data warehousing company and Pentaho Corporation, a commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced the availability of an integrated virtual machine that combines the company's open source analytic database engine for MySQL with Pentaho's full suite of open source business intelligence capabilities. The company avers that the integrated solution provides an alternative for organizations that are tasked to deliver better business insight while containing IT expenses.The company explains that it has collaborated with Pentaho to deliver an integrated virtual machine that combines Infobright Community Edition with Pentaho BI Suite Community Edition deployed into a virtual machine based on Ubuntu Linux with the Tomcat application server. Delivery via virtual machine makes this the fastest way for users to try out the software and to start prototyping their own applications without installing or configuring software.It articulates that the Infobright Community Edition is optimized for analytic applications and data warehousing deployments, and provides an open source column-store database that is scalable, simple to manage and delivers excellent query performance with no administrative effort. It further states that the Pentaho BI Suite Community Edition provides reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining, and data integration capabilities to address a wide range of business problems and address a full spectrum of end user BI needs.The company further says that the integrated download provides users with a pre-built analytic database, along with interactive dashboard examples, parameterized operational and analytic reports, and interactive OLAP analysis to demonstrate the power and functional breadth of capabilities available to business users."Open source enables users to get started immediately on new projects," said Susan Davis, vice president of Marketing at Infobright. "Pentaho and Infobright have taken this idea a step further by integrating an end-to-end BI solution that can be installed in minutes, eliminating the need for users to download multiple products and perform any integration effort.""Interest in open source BI and data warehousing is growing rapidly, driven by the need for low-cost alternatives to traditional, expensive, proprietary offerings," said Lance Walter, senior vice president of Marketing at Pentaho. "At the same time, commercial open source offerings like Infobright and Pentaho provide full-featured solutions, so users don't have to sacrifice functionality for cost savings."