Pendular is an acronym for Pentaho End-user Layer. It offers a simple, light weight web front-end for Pentaho business intelligence end-users (as opposed to power users and administrators).

In comparison to Pentaho's standard front-end (mantle), Pendular offers a more simplified user interface that requires less screen real-estate. Some specific pendular features include:

• repository search with autocomplete
• dynamic, personalized tag cloud
• favorites - simple bookmark management (not yet implemented)
• what's new list
• minimal consumption of screen real-estate - Ideal for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets

To see Pendular in acttion, check out this (short) video kindly created and posted on YouTube by Matt Casters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18cWoKCKEg&feature=player_embedded#at=65

Pendular is implemented as an AJAX thin client based on the YAHOO User Interface framework (YUI).

Pendular is packaged as a pentaho server plugin. This makes it very easy to install: simply drop the pendular directory (and its subdirectories) inside pentaho-solutions/system and restart the bi server. The plugin is picked up automatically by Pentaho and can be accessed at: http://_server_:_port_/pentaho/content/pendular/www/index.html The plugin also installs a Pendular menu item in the mantle Tools menu. You can access Pendular from there as well.