The Community Edition is a bit more challenging to set up as some of the configuration steps need to be carried out by hand. Check here for tips on installing the commercial version. The commercial (EE) version includes an installer program that automates installing and configuring all of the tools including a Postgres database server to host the BA Repository. Pentaho offers both a commercial (Enterprise Edition) version (with a 30-day free trial option) and a Community Edition (CE) version. A 64-bit Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required and instructions on installing an appropriate JRE are provided later in this tutorial. It may run on as little as 4GB of RAM but some editing needs to be done to the startup scripts (described later). To work with Pentaho BA Server you will require an Intel based PC running Windows, Linux or MacOSX that has at least 8GB of RAM and 4GB of free disk space. Plug-Ins including Instaview and AgileBI that allow the designer to interactively view and model source data and transformations.Kitchen, Pan and Carte: Scheduling and coordinating collections of ETL jobs.Spoon: User interface to create, schedule and execute ETL jobs.Data Integration Server used to create, schedule and execute Extract, Translation and Loading (ETL) jobs.Client-Based Design Tools: Aggregation Designer, Metadata Editor and Schema Workbench.Web-Based Design Tools and Plugins: Report Designer, Analyzer, Interactive Reporting, Dashboard Designer and Mobile designer.These tools are categorized into two main areas: BA Server and User Console used to create analytics content such as dashboards and reports.Pentaho is a market-leading vendor of business analytics tools which include:
PENTAHO DATA INTEGRATION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS 10
The following instructions cover the basics of installing and configuring the Pentaho Community Edition Business Analytics tools on a Windows 7, Windows 10 or Windows Server operating system.