Open Source Leaders Partner to Ensure Ongoing Integration of Key Product Lines
Redwood City, Calif. and Orlando, FL. - February 5, 2008 - Ingres Corporation, a leading Open Source Information Management
software and services company, and Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI),
today announced a technology partnership to address the growing demand for open source business intelligence solutions. Through
the partnership, the companies will work together to ensure ongoing integration of key product lines, as well as support the
technology integration with joint sales and marketing activities aimed at the business intelligence market.
"Pentaho has made numerous investments over the last couple of years to certify our core open source BI modules on the Ingres
database," said Erik Hoogerhuis, vice president of business development of Pentaho Corporation. "The large installed base of
the Ingres database validates the technology strengths of the Ingres platform, and we look forward to partnering with Ingres
to continue to drive production-ready open source BI integration in the future."
"Business intelligence is our fastest-growing application area driven in large part by the customer's need to extract more
business value out of information locked away in ERP applications," said Fred Gallagher, vice president of business development,
Ingres Corporation. "The breadth of Pentaho's offering is very attractive to our customers and prospects, and users will know
through this partnership that we are committed to their ongoing success with open source BI."
Pentaho's BI capabilities, coupled with the Ingres database, can be used by organizations to address many different business
challenges. For example, organizations can use Pentaho's operational reporting capabilities running directly against Ingres-based
operational systems for real-time operational reporting. Other organizations that need an integrated view of the business spanning
multiple systems can use Pentaho's extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities to integrate data from multiple ERP and
operational systems into a data warehouse running the Ingres database. Business users can take advantage of Pentaho Dashboards
and Pentaho Analysis to turn information from their Ingres databases into rich, interactive dashboards and sophisticated analytic
views.
About Pentaho
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides
comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world's
leading and most widely-deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software
license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's
inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than 3 million times, with
production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000.
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Built on over 25
years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven
reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company's partnerships with leading open source providers
further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to
deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Based in
Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands
of customers in the United States and internationally. For more information, visit www.ingres.com.
Ingres is a registered trademark of Ingres Corporation, and Project Icebreaker is a trademark of Ingres Corporation. All
other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
Pentaho Company Contact:
Wes Brown
Pentaho Corporation
407-812-OPEN (6736)
media@pentaho.com
Ingres Corporation Contact:
Sherry Lowe
Corporate Communications
650-587-5544
sherry.lowe@ingres.com or
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