Power Your AI Journey with Pentaho’s Most Advanced Release Yet

In today’s AI-driven workplace, every team is under pressure to deliver trusted data. Data professionals need platforms that simplify complexity, reduce risk and cost, and allow them to move quickly without waiting on IT. The latest release of Pentaho Data Integration and Business Analytics is up to task. It represents a significant evolution that strengthens the foundation needed for AI initiatives helping organizations get data-fit, accelerate innovation, and operate with confidence.  

In PDI & Analytics Release 11 we’re delivering enhancements across the board—more intuitive usability, faster pipeline development to drive AI and agentic workloads, smoother collaboration, and stronger security. These aren’t just upgrades; they will make a real difference in how businesses operate. 

 Smarter, Faster Pipeline Development with Pentaho Data Integration Updates 

Pentaho Data Integration is evolving into a more intuitive, collaborative, and scalable experience for today’s data teams. The biggest shift comes from the new browser-based Pipeline Designer. It removes installation hurdles and gives developers a streamlined place to build jobs and transformations, all within a modern interface that’s easier to learn and faster to use.  

Pentaho is also introducing a new way to organize pipeline development. Project Profile is a structured way for ETL developers and DevOps teams to organize their pipeline work. It creates logical containers that keep related jobs, transformations, and configuration files together, helping teams to eliminate deployment headaches, improve collaboration, and cut down on rework and errors. 

Advancing the Pentaho Business Analytics Experience 

Pentaho Business Analytics is moving forward with updates that make modeling, governance, and day-to-day usability stronger. A standout addition is the new Semantic Model Editor, now fully web based and delivered as a Business Analytics plugin. It replaces Schema Workbench and the Data Source Wizard with a cleaner modeling workflow that supports existing Mondrian models while making it easier for teams to build new ones. It’s a major step toward simplifying data modeling for both technical and business users. 

Security and access control are also getting important improvements. Pentaho now offers OIDC/OAuth authentication enabling single sign-on integration with identity providers like Google, Okta, and Azure, which many organizations require for security and compliance. It also simplifies administration and reduces costs. 

In addition, Version 11 includes redesigned permissions that give administrators finer-grained control across the platform. This helps teams tighten governance, simplify audits, and ensure users see exactly what they should and nothing more.  

Platform-Wide Modernized Enhancements for How Data Teams Work Today 

The platform updates are designed for how modern data teams operate; flexible, fast, and constantly evolving. One of the most impactful updates is the new plugin manager, which simplifies how organizations extend Pentaho’s capabilities. It makes it easy to discover, install, and update plugins, keeps environments current and consistent. It enables users to receive new functionality faster like new connectors, transformation steps, or job entries. 

Another important improvement focuses on reducing costs. With support for Java 21 across both Pentaho Data Integration and Business Analytics, organizations using Oracle Java can avoid Java-related licensing costs associated with older versions.  

A Platform Evolving to Meet Tomorrow’s Data Demands 

Pentaho Release 11 gives teams a stronger, more flexible foundation for the road ahead. It brings together a modern UX, tighter governance, upgraded performance, and smarter development workflows so data professionals can move faster with less risk. As AI initiatives accelerate and data ecosystems grow more complex, these advancements help cut through the chaos and create a clearer, faster path to value. This release ensures Pentaho remains a dependable platform that evolves right alongside your business. 

Watch the webinar with VP Product Management Sandeep Prakash to learn more.