Can we compare saiku with Pentaho Analyzer?
business-intelligence, pentaho, saiku
Solution
Yes of course. Both the tools use the same underlying OLAP engine - Mondrian. Saiku is essentially the same as analyzer providing many of the same features - however it has a different architecture which additionally makes it very embeddable and pluggable. Plus Saiku can be used standalone too if you want to.
Check out the demo at dev.analytical-labs.com to see what it can do.
Also for help you wont find many tools with such a great community - hook up with them on Freenode IRC at either ##Pentaho or ##Saiku depending on your questions!
Pentaho is the right choice for OS BI too - Presume you looked at Jaspersoft as well? Worth a look but you'll no doubt realise the features are better in Pentaho.
Problem
I'm currently in an internship and i have to create a whole BI application. I think i'll use pentaho, and I have to use just open source component. I know that Pentaho Analyzer is not free My question is: Is saiku an equivalent of analyzer? If yes, can I use it with pentaho instead of analyzer? thks