Before introducing PDI, let's talk about Pentaho BI Suite. The Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite is a collection of software applications intended to create and deliver solutions for decision making. The main functional areas covered by the suite are:
- Analysis: The analysis engine serves multidimensional analysis. It's provided by the Mondrian OLAP server.
- Reporting: The reporting engine allows designing, creating, and distributing reports in various known formats (HTML, PDF, and so on), from different kinds of sources. In the Enterprise Edition of Pentaho, you can also generate interactive reports.
- Data mining: Data mining is used for running data through algorithms in order to understand ...
