CityTone - Business Intelligence (BI) is base on - Pentaho Business Analytics. It is a tightly coupled data integration and business analytics platform that brings together IT and business users for easy access, integration, visualization and exploration of any data. Pentaho includes data discovery, data integration and predictive analytics. With Pentaho, business users are empowered to make information-driven decisions that positively impact their organization’s performance. IT can rapidly deliver a secure, scalable, flexible, and easy to manage business analytics platform for the broadest set of users.
Point and Click Access to Any Data
Pentaho provides a web-based interface for business users to access any data, including big data, for dashboards, interactive reporting, visualization, analysis and predictive analytics. With an easy to use wizard-based approach, business users can turn their data into insight and make information-driven decisions in minutes.
- Web-based data access wizard for business users
- Powerful data integration and federation for IT and developers
- Access to diverse data types from Excel to Hadoop
Reporting
Pentaho reporting capabilities span the entire continuum from self-service interactive reporting, to high-volume, highly-formatted enterprise reporting.
- Intuitive web-based interactive reporting for business users
- Rich graphical enterprise report designer for power users
- Output in popular formats: HTML, Excel, CSV, PDF and RTF
- In-memory caching for fast results
Interactive Dashboards
By delivering key performance indicators in a highly graphical, interactive visual interface, Pentaho dashboards give business users the critical information they need to understand and improve organizational performance.
- Rich graphical visualizations with navigation, drilling and a rich library of filter controls
- Web-based drag and drop dashboard designer for business users
- Portal and mash-up integration to seamlessly integrate business analytics with other applications, including Google Maps
Data Discovery, Analysis and Visualization
Pentaho Business Analytics puts powerful analytics in the hands of business users. With an intuitive, interactive web user interface, users can freely explore and visualize their business data by multiple dimensions such as product, geography and customer.
- Interactive visual analysis allows decision makers to drill into data for greater insight
- Visual lasso filtering and zooming narrows down the context of data to understand or exclude outliers
- Attribute highlighting provides better visualization contrast among data displays
- A rich library of interactive visualizations to find patterns and anomalies, including geo-mapping, heat grids and scatter/bubble charts
- Drill-down functionality into supporting reports and dashboards provides deeper analysis
- Extreme scale in-memory data caching for speed-of-thought analysis with large data volumes
Pentaho Mobile
Pentaho gives business users on the go a true mobile experience with complete data discovery, interactive analysis and visualization on the iPad. Mobile users instantly become more productive by accessing, analyzing and sharing business information from anywhere. Watch the mobile video.
- True iPad-optimized mobile experience with native gestures, such as touch filtering, drill-through and touch-enabled drag and drop functionality
- Creation of analytic reports from the iPad with access to all interactive dashboards, analysis and reports
- Personalization capabilities like favorites and customizing start-up location
- Web-based and open architecture ideal for ISV and SaaS companies to embed analytics into their mobile applications
Data Integration
Pentaho Data Integration delivers powerful data preparation capabilities including extract, transform and load (ETL). An intuitive and rich graphical design environment minimizes complexity and time invested in specialized scripts and coding to prepare data.
- Broad connectivity to both traditional and diverse and large volumes of data from Excel to NoSQL databases and all Apache based Hadoop distributions
- Data profiling and data quality, including name, address, phone and email cleansing
- High performance multi-threaded processing and MPP clustering
- Integrated semantic dimensional modeling and visualization enabling iterative agile data integration and business analytics
Predictive Analytics
Beyond interactive visualization and exploration of data, Pentaho provides powerful, state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and data processing tools. Data scientists and analysts can uncover meaningful patterns and correlations otherwise hidden with standard analysis and reporting. Sophisticated, advanced analytics such as time series forecasting help plan for future outcomes based on a better understanding of prior business performance.
- Supports the whole process of predictive analytics
- Preparation of input data
- Statistical evaluation of learning schemes
- Visualization of input data and the result of learning
- Includes powerful algorithms such as classification, regression, clustering and association
- Allows import of third-party models using Predictive Modeling Markup Language (PMML)
- Allows storing and versioning of models using the Pentaho repository
- Uses Pentaho Data Integration to operationalize models inside or outside of a Hadoop cluster
- Incorporates algorithms into Pentaho’s visual interface
Centralized Management
Pentaho Business Analytics includes all of the management tools needed to easily and efficiently develop, deploy and manage a business analytics platform. IT is able to deploy self-service interactive reporting, dashboards and data analysis and visualization to the broadest set of end users.
- Analytic content permissions, versioning, locking and expiration
- Backup and recovery
- Performance monitoring and usage auditing