OpenOffice.org and business intelligence software maker Pentaho on April 20 announced a deal to include the latter’s open source reporting engine in OpenOffice.org’s next feature release. “Report Designer” will serve as an extension to the free office suite’s database application, “Base.”

Report Designer aims to give business users the ability to create sophisticated business intelligence reports from various sources — including OLAP and XML — and save them using the OASIS OpenDocument format (ODF), the ISO-approved open standard for file format, among other formats.

Report Designer also outputs files in Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text, a Pentaho spokesperson said.

Source: desktop linux

~LC