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Pentaho

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Business intelligence software

Pentaho is a business software company that provides data integration and business analytics software. Its primary products are Pentaho Data Integration, which provides data integration and ETL capabilities, and Pentaho Business Analytics, which provides business intelligence, reporting, and analytics capabilities. Pentaho supports data environments including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2004Founded1

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Pentaho is a business software company that provides data integration and business analytics software. Its primary products are Pentaho Data Integration, which provides data integration and ETL capabilities, and Pentaho Business Analytics, which provides business intelligence, reporting, and analytics capabilities. Pentaho supports data environments including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments. The company is owned by LEO Software, an operating group of Constellation Software.2

Products and brands

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Pentaho Data Optimizer (PDO)

Pentaho Data Optimizer allows organizations to manage, maintain and tier their data based on its business value, the cost of managing it, and regulatory requirements. It uses the auto-discovery features of the Pentaho Data Catalog to achieve this.

Pentaho Data Catalog (PDC)

In March 2020 and June 2021 Hitachi Vantara acquired Waterline Data and Io-Tahoe respectively, and amalgamated both into its Pentaho Data Catalog (PDC). PDC automatically finds, analyzes, and tags structured and unstructured data and contextualizes it with business glossary terms and governance policies.

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) & Pentaho Business Analytics (PBA).

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) and Pentaho Business Analytics (PBA) use a Java framework to create business intelligence solutions. Although most known for its Business Analysis Server (formerly known as Business Intelligence Server), the PDI/PBA software is indeed a couple of Java classes with specific functionality. On top of those Java classes one can build any business intelligence solution.

The only exception to this model is the ETL tool Pentaho Data Integration - PDI (formerly known as Kettle.) PDI is a set of software used to design data flows that can be run either in a server or standalone processes. PDI encompasses Kitchen, a job and transformation runner, and Spoon, a graphical user interface to design such jobs and transformations.

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Features such as reporting and OLAP are achieved by integrating sub-projects into the PDI/PBA framework, like Mondrian OLAP engine and jFree Report. For some time by now those projects have been brought into Pentaho's curating. Some of those subprojects even have standalone clients like Pentaho Report Designer, a front-end for jFree Reports, and Pentaho Schema Workbench, a GUI to write XMLs used by Mondrian to serve OLAP cubes.

Pentaho offers enterprise and community editions of those PDI software. The enterprise software is obtained through an annual subscription and contains extra features and support not found in the community edition. PDI & PBA's core offering is frequently enhanced by add-on products, usually in the form of plug-ins, from the company and the broader community of users.

Server applications

Pentaho Enterprise Edition (EE) and Pentaho Community Edition (CE).

Community driven, open-source Pentaho server plug-ins

All of these plug-ins function with Pentaho Enterprise Edition (EE) and the older Pentaho Community Edition (CE).

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Timeline

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