EasyAsk, of Progress Software, is a tool of BI with the peculiaridad that for the application of reports, analysis or even pictures of control provides to the user an interface where formulates a question or a request of the information that precise, in lenguaje natural, and the tool translates it to SQL, MDX or what do fault to give back a report of what the user requests. It is as a searcher, but applied to our systems of information.
The new is in that seems that no only limit to locate reports, as already do the systems of research of other tools of BI, but that besides interprets the entered by the user in lenguaje natural like parameters to show him fair the information that has requested.
With this functionality remains well justified his classification like tool of Business Intelligence.

We have prepared virtual servers with a preconfigured installation of Pentaho, the well-known open source platform for Business Intelligence (BI Pentaho PCI).
You can freely download a virtual machine ready with the virtualization software VirtualBox 2.0 Sun, and another with VM 2.0 server software:
Pentaho Has prepared with the version 1.7.1 A new demo online with some reports of proof for the one who want to explore interactivamente some of the analytical possibilities and of reporting of the suite.
The reports are prepared on the data of proof of the fictitious company Steel Wheels, already used by Pentaho for others give.
They have created a folder for each type of report:
Pentaho Dashboards Contains a picture
of interactive control integrated with Google Maps
, and another with a top
have of clients ordered by territory and linea of product
.