ORLANDO, Fla., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced the general availability of Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5. With this release, Pentaho provides new user-driven, interactive visualization and data...

Visual analysis is getting widespread recognition as one of the key new software tools that are enabling business people to do data exploration and discovery on their own, without relying on outside experts to query databases or to perform complex analysis. The idea behind visual analysis is to present business data in interactive visualization charts that make it very easy for businesspeople to see trends, patterns, and outliers in their data. In addition to seeing these factors, the visualizations are interactive, meaning that the business manager or analyst can simply click on or select (using a computer mouse) items of ...

Visual analysis tools enable business people to explore data in an unfettered and truly ad-hoc manner where they can examine what they see and are able to understand the stories hidden within the data. Then, as insight and understanding comes, they can quickly move from high-level portfolio views to low-level detail and take action. Learn More or see a Demonstration