Pentaho launches new version of BI Suite Enterprise Edition

Pentaho announced a couple of days ago, the latest release of its open source BI suite, called Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 2.

Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 2 provides comprehensive BI capabilities, including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, and data integration. The latest version focuses on making it simple for users to access the BI suite's rich features and for administrators to deploy and scale the solution.

The main features are:
About Simplicity
- Simple, Central End User Access
- Intuitive Navigation and Scheduling
- Easy Access to Data Sources

About Scalability
- Faster Analytic Queries
- ETL Management and Performance Monitoring
- Granular Metadata Security

You can see further information, including a live online demonstration, downloads, and customer examples, in the Pentaho website.

Infoworld presents the Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008

Infoworld presented today the InfoWorld's Annual BOSSIES - 2008 Best of Open Source Software Awards, that "recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done. The 2008 BOSSIE winners include 60 products in eight categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage."

I highlighted the category Best of open source enterprise applications, with mainly these winners:
- Business intelligence (BI) - Pentaho Open BI Suite
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Compiere
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - SugarCRM
- Business Process Management (BPM) - Intalio BPMS

You can see the full report to further details.

This is a good award to recognize the effort of open source community in develop good tools.