“Open source vendors Pentaho and JasperSoft have rolled out new
business intelligence products that look more and more like their
commercial-grade enterprise BI counterparts in terms of
functionality and licensing.“Pentaho has shipped a new version of its Data Integration tool
that is included as part of its Pentaho BI suite. Version 2.5 of
the software bumps up greater scalability through an improved bulk
loading interface for the MySQL database, better ETL job design and
error handling capabilities, and a new drag-and-drop user interface
that improves developer productivity…”