Pentaho Launches New Interactive Visualization and Expanded Big Data Analytics

Today, business intelligence architecture is considered a tool to collect integrate, analyze, and present large volumes of data that in turn contribute to strategic decision-making in organizations.

To enable business users to complete data discovery and interactive analysis capabilities, Pentaho Corporation has introduced the general availability of Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5. The company offers new user-driven, interactive visualization and data exploration capabilities that access all data sources, including big data, as well as a pluggable and extensible interface for software and SaaS (News - Alert) companies to easily add third-party visualizations.

Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5 is equipped with unified data integration and business analytics platform. Both IT and line of business users can quickly and easily collaborate to achieve better analysis and make better business decisions.

“Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5 delivers interactive visualization and big data integration in a unified pluggable platform that speeds time to business insights for both IT and line of business,” said Jake Cornelius, senior vice president, products, Pentaho Corporation. 

According to a press release, Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5 includes location-based data visualization such as geo mapping, heat grids, scatter/bubble chart visualizations. It also enhances analytics capabilities for business users. Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5 features interactive visual analysis such as lasso filtering, zoom and attribute highlighting on all chart types.

“The new visualization features in Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5 such as heat grids and lasso filtering will greatly enhance our marketing analytics solutions and are sure to impress our end users,” said Michael Winner, vice President of Consulting Services at Numeric Analytics. “Because Pentaho has a unified environment for data integration and visualization tools, it is much easier and quicker to deliver useful business analytics solutions as compared to other analytics and big data tools I have worked with in the past.”

Pentaho Business Analytics has the ability to tailor the report viewing experience with scriptable data source logic and custom report parameter prompts.