Created in 2004, Pentaho is an open source software developed in Java and owned by Hitachi Vantara. It has applications focused on data analysis and business intelligence strategies and two versions: Enterprise and Community (free). Due to open source , it is one of the most popular tools in its segment, capable of analyzing precisely a large volume of information with the necessary speed and assertiveness..

Due to its various components, Pentaho is able to be present in the entire analytical process. For example, it performs ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) and integration, migration and data cleaning activities with excellence via Pentaho Data Integration (PDI or Kettle). Pentaho also works in activities related to Big Data and even visualizations, such as dashboards.

The most important components of Pentaho are: PDI; Pentaho for Big Data; Pentaho Data Mining; Pentaho Interactive Reporting (PIR), for creating reports; Pentaho Analysis Services, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) tool; Pentaho Metadata Editor (PME), which is used to act in the metadata layer and Pentaho Mobile, which, as the name suggests, is aimed at mobile devices.

For companies looking to use Pentaho, there are no costs to implement, but there is clear gains when investing in professional training or hiring a consulting firm that dominates it. Thus, it is possible to explore the full potential of the tool, use it with other software, create applications aligned to the business in question and, consequently, make the entire analytical process faster and more effective.