Pentaho Announces 2006 Pentaho Partner Awards

Orlando FL. - Feb 6, 2007 - Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced the winners of the 2006 Pentaho Partner Awards. The Pentaho Partner Awards recognize organizations that have worked closely with Pentaho throughout the year to deliver customer success, commercial results, and to accelerate the adoption of Pentaho's best-in-class open source BI capabilities on a global basis. The awards were presented last week at Pentaho's Worldwide Partner Summit in Orlando, Florida.

Since the inception of the Pentaho Partner Program, Pentaho has added dozens of Certified Partners around the globe to extend the reach of Pentaho's professional open source business model and expand Pentaho's presence in the BI market. Pentaho Certified Partners provide the technology expertise, industry expertise, and BI implementation skills to deliver success for Pentaho clients, spanning a wide range of BI deployments from embedded reporting and analytics to large-scale data warehouses, dashboards, and data mining.

The 2006 Pentaho Partner Award winners are:

BPM Conseil - BPM Conseil was recognized for their leadership role in driving market development in Western Europe. BPM Conseil has helped to attract new members to the Pentaho community, recruit and deploy significant European customers, and has developed numerous open source extensions to Pentaho's BI projects.

OpenBI - OpenBI was recognized for their investments and successes in delivering on joint sales opportunities. OpenBI has consistently applied their years of experience in business intelligence to help prospects understand how to achieve BI success, and how to fully realize the technology and value advantages of the Pentaho Open BI Suite.

Two Heads srl - Two Heads was recognized for delivering and showcasing a significant and compelling customer deployment. As announced last November, Two Heads worked with Italian financial firm Unionfidi S.C. to deploy a data warehouse and balanced scorecard application with integrated reporting and analysis. Two Heads worked with Pentaho and Unionfidi to announce the deployment, and to create a case study describing the deployment. The case study is available for download at www.pentaho.com/products/demos/.

"On behalf of Pentaho, I want to thank and congratulate our 2006 Pentaho Partner Award winners," said Dave Henry, Vice President at Pentaho. "Without a doubt, the Pentaho Certified Partners have done a lot to grow their Pentaho-related business, developing new markets and new technologies, while helping customers realize the benefits of open source BI."

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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, and Kettle, 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.