open source platforming for pentaho based bi solutions
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Enhancing value of Pentaho based BI
deployments using InfoAxon’s ‘Open Source
Platforming’ approach
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Open Source Platforming for
Pentaho based BI solutions
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Overview
Organizations are under continuous pressure to improve their business performance, cut costs and do more with less. Also they are
expected to quickly launch new solutions and services to capitalize on changing business environment and capture greenfield
business opportunities.
Today‟s Knowledge Workers are also becoming more and more demanding and need business intelligence which aids their day-to-
day work and not just few standard business reports with pre-formatted data. And they need it in the way which makes sense to
them with full control of their data and how they want to analyze the data. Knowledge Worker Productivity Improvement is fast
becoming one of the key drivers for BI Solutions.
This is posing great challenge to IT teams in organizations today. They are expected to be innovative, deliver flexible business
intelligence solutions to manage fast changing requirements and reduce costs, all at the same time.
Why InfoAxon for your Pentaho based BI Solution
InfoAxon has over a decade experience of working with and contributing to open source eco-system. Our Open Source BI
Practice does not view Pentaho just as a piece of technology; rather we view it from creating innovative BI Solutions for our
customer needs. The BI practice ensures that the Pentaho based BI Solution is properly designed, architected, integrated and
deployed with right support and governance mechanisms. We have enhanced and customized Pentaho with new features,
innovative integration with other 3rd party framework & components and developed further add-ons „Solution Accelerators‟ to
standardize and fast-track BI Solutions implementations.
Pentaho customization
approach
(adopted by any other Open
source vendor)
Comments InfoAxon innovative pre-packaged
Pentaho Platform
approach
Comments
Open Source
Yes Pentaho is open source and
provides the usual benefits of using open source software
Yes We have many more open source
components well integrated other than Pentaho. These open source
components can be customized further to make the stack
"Business Ready" for Pentaho users
Cost
Yes Traditional benefits of adopting
open source. You can avail either free or commercial open
source versions of Pentaho
Affordable
implementation (much more value
for money)
Solutions that are good value for
money since they offer much more than what you get from a
basic Pentaho implementation; Pre-packaged suites lowers your
total cost of ownership and fast
track project implementations
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Open Source BI Practice
No Most of the vendors have just Pentaho specific skills. This
approach is just to implement Pentaho as a technology
product and not create & own
BI Solution.
Yes Dedicated Open Source BI Practice resulting into customized
and faster BI Solutions for specific verticals or specific business
problems
Rich Dashboards
No Not provided by Pentaho by default and for many projects
require significant customization
Rich Dashboards available for
implementation
Uses other integrated open source software to provide rich and
attractive dashboards
Test Suite
No When implementing projects no additional standard test cases
and test plan suites are available tuned for Pentaho
Typical Test cases and Test plan for
Pentaho project part of Platform
development
When implementing projects you get ready test cases and test
plans
Business Ready
No Pentaho out of the box still needs a lot of customization
and understanding to be put into production
Yes Integrated stack makes it easier to put into production and leads
to faster turnaround times
Making your development
faster and Agile
No Does not provide a development environment that
fast tracks your project development; Mostly this is
developed by project teams
Innovative and Agile development
environment
You get an innovative and agile development environment that
supports continuous integration on our Pentaho projects
High Performance
optimized Data Access
Layer
No The data access layer for production grade volumes is
often needed to be modified and optimized but takes time to
get right
Enhanced data access layer
compared to Pentaho
Pentaho layer is optimized for business use and cuts down the
"Problem Finding" and fixing loops; In summary saves you time
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Better Data Load
Behaviours
No Standard ETL capabilities (nothing special that will make
your ETL process data load behaviour faster)
Advanced Logging, audit and
compliance is built in the fusionBI tool kit
and the data load
behaviour while building your DW
will be more manageable and
transparent
For example missing data loading later;
To the end customers, we provide innovative & cost- effective BI Solutions that meet their needs as opposed to traditional BI
systems that come with rigid, large footprints and require big budgets to implement. Also, since we already have repository of pre-
built, pre-integrated and pre-tested BI solutions which caters to most of the common BI scenarios, considerably less effort is
required to implement and maintain BI solutions for the customers resulting into faster turnaround and lower TCO.
InfoAxon has a full blown open source BI practice which takes care of pentaho based BI integration in standardized manner. To
know more about please read our Pentaho BI Capability Paper.
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About InfoAxon Technologies
InfoAxon is a leading provider of enterprise services and business
solutions powered by open source. We design, architect and support
complete “Enterprise Solution Platforms” using Open Standards, Web 2.0
next generation technologies and Open Source Frameworks providing
end-to-end solutions to business problems.
India‟s First Global Open Source Integration Company
We are India's First Global Open Source Integration Company providing business solutions in areas of Content & Knowledge Management,
Web2.0 Collaboration and Business Intelligence powered by our
unique open source „Platforming‟ expertise.
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