Pentaho Partners Bring Open Source BI Expertise to Local Audiences around the World

Orlando, FL – September 19, 2006 - Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced a partner-led seminar series that brings the expertise of Pentaho’s partners, as well as the world’s most popular open source BI suite to potential users around the world. The series demonstrates the global demand for Pentaho’s open source BI capabilities, and shows a strong commitment between Pentaho and its partners to drive market activity and real-world customer success in local geographies.

The breadth of Pentaho’s offering allows Pentaho users and customers to address a wide range of business challenges, from reporting and analysis to dashboards, data mining and data integration. Pentaho’s partners provide the benefits of their significant experience addressing BI challenges in different industries, geographies, and technology environments.

September Events

• Basis06 will showcase Pentaho’s BI capabilities at topsoft. Topsoft is Switzerland’s premier event for bringing business people to discuss critical business software solutions in areas like ERP, CRM, and business intelligence. The exhibition featuring basis06 and Pentaho will take place from September 20-21 in Zurich-Oerlikon. For more information on this event, please see www.topsoft.ch.
• Optaros and Pentaho will present “How Open Source Helps Business Intelligence”, an executive seminar in the early evening, to be held in both Zurich and Geneva on September 20-21. Noted BI and Performance Management expert John Moorhead will discuss important trends in business intelligence, followed by a review of the open source BI landscape, and a demonstration of Pentaho’s BI capabilities.

October Events

• OpenBI, LLC, and Pentaho will deliver a web seminar, moderated by BI thought leader Colin White, introducing open source business intelligence (OSBI). The October 17th webinar will discuss the growing OSBI market, and demonstrate how OpenBI and Pentaho can help organizations realize OSBI benefits today. For registration or more information, please visit the B-Eye-Network website at http://www.b-eye-network.com/events/details/1120 or OpenBI, LLC at www.openbi.biz.
• Ancud and ProRATIO will discuss the benefits of open source BI in leveraging valuable information from popular ERP systems like SAP. The event “Pentaho – Open Source Business Intelligence Overview and Practical Solutions” will take place on October 19th, 2006 at the IBM Forum in Frankfurt/Main-Sossenheim. During the free event, business users and the press get the opportunity to learn about practical solutions that can be delivered using Pentaho. For information and registration for this event, please see www.proratio.de/sites/events/2006/pentaho-infotag-okt/, and http://www.ancud.de/de/loesungen/business-intelligence/pentaho-roadshow/ .

November Events

• S & N and Pentaho will hold a German Financial Open Source Summit, bringing European financial executives together to discuss the information challenges of the European Financial Services industry, and how to leverage open source BI to improve information access for employees while lowering technology costs. This event will take place on November 14 in Frankfurt. For more information, please see www.s-und-n.de.

A Commitment to Partner Success

Since launching the Pentaho Partner Program earlier this year, Pentaho has added more than two dozen partners on 5 continents, and has shown a commitment to joint market development with partners including training, knowledge-sharing, and go-to-market support. “Global demand for open source BI continues to grow at a rapid pace,” said Dave Henry, Vice President of Alliances at Pentaho. “Our partners have stepped up to provide the skills and experience to help our global user base maximize the value they get from Pentaho, and we will continue to partner with them to create opportunity and awareness in global and local markets.”

For more information on Pentaho: Pentaho’s web site is located at www.pentaho.com

About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world’s most popular open source BI suite. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho’s mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including Mondrian, JFreeReport, Kettle, and Weka, Pentaho’s technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.