The Pentaho BI Platform is the underlying infrastructure which supports Pentaho's reporting, analysis, dashboard, data integration, and data mining capabilities. The Pentaho BI Platform provides the architecture and infrastructure required to build complete solutions to business problems, and is designed around these low level BI services. Authentication, logging, auditing, workflow, rules engines and a solution engine provide the foundation of the platform, while service-oriented components such as Pentaho Reporting, Pentaho Analysis, and Pentaho Dashboards provide the higher-level, business user functionality. This Service Oriented Architecture allows the components to be called by the solution engine autonomously. Solution documents are used to define the order and relationships between these calls allowing the platform to be programmable without changing code.
The platform includes an embedded workflow engine and can be easily integrated into business processes. The framework provides core services including authentication, logging, auditing, workflow, web services, and rules engines. The platform also includes a solution engine that integrates reporting, analysis, dashboards and data mining components to form a sophisticated and complete BI platform.
Anyone who needs to solve enterprise class business problems can use the platform to implement solutions. Because the total cost of ownership is dramatically lower, resources can be invested in developing the business logic, reports and workflows that implement the solution. This provides tremendous benefits to end-user organizations, consultants, ISVs and OEMs.
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