Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator for Pentaho Released

CINCINNATI, OH – June 30, 2006 – Balanced Insight today announced the release of the Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator for Pentaho. The already-robust stature of the Balanced Insight Consensus® platform has made significant inroads with Balanced Insight’s customers who are looking to bring a common language between their IT and business users. The launch of the Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator for Pentaho will make organizations even more empowered to bring semblance, understanding and agreement upon data and business definitions.

“We continue to evolve the Balanced Insight Consensus® product line with a set of integrators to enable the simulation and generation of BI Solutions on popular BI Platforms,” notes Tom Hammergren, president and CEO of Balanced Insight. “With this release of our Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator, users can, at the press of a button, generate working Pentaho BI Solutions.”

With this release of Balanced Insight Consensus®, the labor-intensive process of defining, architecting, and developing Pentaho OLAP and Reporting solutions — becomes highly automated, making the resulting information more trusted, more usable, and more valued. Balanced Insight Consensus® becomes the assistant to the business intelligence developer by taking the requirements captured by the business intelligence analyst and automatically generating a working Pentaho BI Solution. The Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator generates the expected relational database structures, a semantic layer for deployment in either the BI layer or the database layer for relational query & reporting, and the Pentaho-Mondrian OLAP model.

This additional functionality adds to that already found within the Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator module. Currently support exists for industry standard relational database DDL (data definition language) enabling interfacing to IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Sybase Adaptive Server, Teradata, as well as others; Common Warehouse Model (CWM) and XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format to support various modeling, business intelligence, ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tools supporting this industry standard.

About Balanced Insight
Balanced Insight, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, helps companies double the return on their business intelligence (BI) and performance management investments. Its signature Balanced Insight Consensus® software is a company-wide platform that brings business focus to the BI development process and automates the arduous task of giving all data a consistent business meaning — what Gartner calls semantic reconciliation. This process leads to more trusted and widely-adopted BI investments with lower ongoing support costs.
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