[odf-discuss] ODF support -- Pentaho business intelligence integration with OOo

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<http://www.pentaho.org/news/releases/20070419_pentaho_adds_reporting_solution_to_openoffice.php>.
Note that the ODF writing support is planned to be in OOo, not in
Pentaho itself, but this project sounds like it should deliver a major
increase in OpenDocument's utility within a business processes
framework. Note that Pentaho's business intelligence app apparently
does does not support ODF, writing reports only to PDF, HTML,
Microsoft Excel, RTF, or plain text.  The Pentaho product overview
page is here, <http://www.pentaho.com/products/g>.

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Orlando, FL - Apr. 19, 2007 - Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's
most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite , in
cooperation with Sun Microsystems, today announced plans to integrate
Pentaho's reporting engine into future releases of the OpenOffice.org
suite. The enhancement, planned to be available with OpenOffice.org
2.3, will equip OpenOffice.org users with key desktop applications,
reporting and database connectivity in a single platform. Sun
Microsystems, who in 2000 founded OpenOffice.org, an open-source
project, have worked with Pentaho to enhance the software suite and
will be working with the community to enable its integration.

With the integration of Pentaho's reporting engine and the new
OpenOffice.org Report Designer, developed by Sun, OpenOffice.org users
will be able to create reports with content from the OpenOffice.org
Base database as well as a wide range of proprietary and open source
relational databases, OLAP and XML sources. For example, users will be
able to generate customer invoices by creating a customer invoice
template and then pulling customer names, addresses, and current due
balances from an accounts receivable application or database. They can
then produce the invoices as OpenOffice.org Writer documents.

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