THE APPLICATION RESEARCH OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM
ABSTRACT
Business intelligence (BI) has a very good prospect in China, but the competition will become fiercer and fiercer. The problem how to understand further business information and transfer them into the knowledge, so as convenient and rapid to provide managers with better accurate and high quality information to support valuable business decision, has become a very urgent project which the business decision of enterprises are facing. Pentaho is a integrated BI platform in Open Source Business Intelligence. The Pentaho BI Project provides enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities that help organizations operate more efficiently and effectively.
This paper based on the pentaho BI platform for research, analyzes the competition environment and characteristics of the retail industry, and then puts forward complete BI solutions. The main characteristic of pentaho BI solution is to provide the perfect functions of Query、RePorting、Analyze、Dashboard、Data Integration and Data mining for the integration of business intelligence solutions.