Despite the BPEL capability, Josh Greenbaum, principal analyst with Enterprise Applications Consulting, was not impressed.

"To say, ‘We integrate with BPEL,' which very few companies use or know how to use, is like saying I have a car that can leave Earth orbit," said Greenbaum, adding, "Now you have to ask, 'Why would you want to do that?'"

According to Greenbaum, being BPEL savvy is a good idea, but not in 2006.

"If I really need it, Oracle or anyone else can give me the workflow integration that I need without building BPEL into my BI infrastructure," said Greenbaum, calling it a great [news] hook, but not what is going to sell the product.

Pentaho also expanded on the reporting functions found in its original offering and now includes analysis and dashboards, plus the ability to work in a clustered architecture.