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Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world’s leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho’s commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho’s inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho’s products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000.
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Pentaho Reporting allows organizations to easily access, format, and distribute information to employees, customers, and partners.

* Flexible deployment from standalone desktop reporting, to interactive web-based reporting to enterprise business intelligence
* Broad data source support including relational, OLAP, or XML-based data sources
* Flexible output options including Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text
* Wizard-driven report design for fast, easy report creation
* Web-based ad hoc query and reporting for business users
* Full-featured graphical Report Designer for report developers
* Enterprise Edition provides enhanced software functionality, comprehensive professional technical support, product expertise, certified software and software maintenance, and more
(Link: Discover why Pentaho Reporting Enterprise Edition is considered a core Business Intelligence (BI) need.)

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