Bugzilla, an open source project managed by the Mountain View, California-based Mozilla Foundation, is a software defect tracking and resolution tools aimed at developers.
The software is included in various open source projects like Apache, Novell, Open Office, and Red Hat and is starting to gain momentum in commercial organizations like AT&T, Citigroup, GlaxoSmithKline, and France Telecom.
The new Pentaho open source project, called Software Quality Reports for Bugzilla, will tap into the analysis and reporting capabilities included as part of the Pentaho BI Suite, allowing developers to glean deeper insights into software quality issues.
A new Sourceforge project has been created to distribute the Software Quality Reports application and source code, both of which are available under the Mozilla Public License. It requires Pentaho 1.2 RC2 or later.
This is the first analytic application project that Orlando, Florida-based Pentaho has engaged in that builds on other popular open source projects. The company is seeking out similar development opportunities in other application areas.
Pentaho develops a modular BI suite that brings together OLAP (Mondrian), reporting (JFreeReport), ETL (Kettle), data mining, and workflow open source projects.
Pentaho has effectively productized these projects as an integrated BI platform.
Pentaho is starting gain momentum in what is still a nascent open source BI market. The company claims a total of 55,000 downloads for its BI project code in June.
