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MySQL 5.0 - Ready for Prime Time Business Intelligence with Pentaho

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Business intelligence is the key to fact-based decision making in the intelligent enterprise. Techniques and tools are designed to unlock knowledge from data. They will help you:

Understand past performance
Monitor current activities and respond quickly to changing conditions
Optimize business processes and performance
Manage risk
Forecast future prospects and plan accordingly

Evaluators should look for software options offering a full range of BI capabilities. Many organizations will want to start simple with basic desktop reporting functions. Others will prefer to immediately implement a full analytics program with enterprise reporting, dashboards, OLAP, and data mining. Workflow facilities, offering the abilities both to manage BI components and to allow external orchestration of BI processes, are another important component of modern BI systems.

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