Welcome

This is the Community Home Page for Pentaho Product Management.  This will serve as the central location for tracking new features being developed as part of our sprinting process.

Public Roadmap

Here is a link to the latest public Pentaho Roadmap slides:

PublicRoadmap_2012.pptx

Currently Under Development

User Driven BI Initiative

Mondrian 3.3 - This release will focus on providing EE plugins for the latest Caching technologies allowing users to achieve performance comparable to in-memory solutions without the same inherent limitations on addressable memory and manageability.  This will be released in conjunction with BI Suite 4.1 which will address a few critical customer defects found in BI Suite 4.0.  Targeting release for early October.

BI Suite 4.5 - This will be a broad range of improvements aimed at putting compelling analysis capabilities in the hands of Business Users.  It will involve providing a simple path for Business Users to import/report/analyze their personal data sets, compelling new visualizations, and continued investment in Interactive Reporting for self-service reporting needs.

Big Data Initiative

Hadoop Integration This project involves proving tight integration between Hadoop (inc Hive, HDFS, etc.) with Pentaho Data Integration for ETL and the BI Suite for performing BI against data in Hadoop.

Currently researching Streaming Data use cases.

Cloud Enabled BI and DI Platform Initiative

BI Suite 5.0 (Sugar) - this release will include:

• Migrating the current solution and content repositories used as part of the BI Server to using the new Enterprise Edition repository released with PDI 4.0
• Adding simple administration/configuration for common multi-tenanted deployment scenarios along with laying down a generic foundation future improvements in multi-tenency

Cloud Technology Integration - this will be a series of spikes and releases to integration the Pentaho BI Suite with a variety of cloud platforms including OpenStack, OpenShift and Cloud Foundry

Pentaho Data Integration

PDI 4.3 - mostly 4.2 fix release (formerly 4.2.2) including switch from LGPL to Apache license, numerous improvements to existing integration points, other TBD

PDI 4.4 - this release fill focus on providing features for conducting Lifecycle Managment along with significant improvements to Administration and Monitoring capabilities.

Active Sprint Summary