Pentaho Corp has joined the JBoss certified partner program

The certification will make it easier for Pentaho’s pure J2EE-based Open BI Suite makes to work more smoothly with JBoss’ Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) and allow developers to quickly reporting, analysis, and dashboarding capabilities.

Additionally Pentaho’s BI will also tap into other JEMS technologies such as JBoss Portal, JBoss Security, and Hibernate. An integrated JEMS solution can be downloaded today – Pentaho is providing a pre-configured installation scheme that also includes the JBoss Application Server. In the next quarter, Pentaho plans to add support for more JEMS components like JBoss Clustering and JBoss jBPM.

JBoss recently beefed up JEMS with two new open source projects – JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web Server to target the middleware at the high-end market. But Pentaho didn’t comment on if and when it would support these projects.

Orlando, Florida-based Pentaho is really riding a wave of interest on open source BI, which also includes projects like the Actuate Corp sponsored BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools), JasperSoft Inc’s JasperReports and Greenplum Inc’s DeepGreen data warehousing system to name but a few.

Pentaho however has a much broader focus and is stewarding the development of open source reporting, OLAP, data mining, and workflow projects which can be rapidly configured into a comprehensive integrated BI stack – much like LAMP which is an integrated framework of open source Linux, Apache Web server, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/ Python software components tested to work together.

Other open source BI vendors are also cottoning on to the idea of integrated BI stacks. Greenplum, JasperSoft, and Kinetic Networks Inc are also proposing an integrated BI architecture through the Bizgres community project. The stack consists of the open source ETL, reporting and data warehousing platform. It will be interesting to see whether BI developers catch this open source wave or simply watch it crash on the shore.