Things keep moving in the data integration world. Pentaho announced release 3.0 of their data integration suite. It features several performance improvements, but also an integrated debugger to improve ETL developers productivity, integration with the Apache Virtual File System and a new statistical transformation plug-in.

Pentaho has released version 2.4 of Mondrian, an open source OLAP project. Mondrian is proposed by Pentaho as its Analysis Service. This is the second major release of the project this year.