New OEM agreement brings Pentaho Business Intelligence to Openbravo Enterprise Resource Planning software
Pamplona, Spain and Orlando, FL – 8th September, 2008 – Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) and Point of Sale (PoS) solutions for enterprises, and Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced
an OEM agreement that will allow Openbravo to embed and distribute Pentaho's open source business intelligence capabilities with Openbravo's flagship Openbravo ERP suite.
By embedding open source BI modules from Pentaho, Openbravo is enabling its worldwide customer base to get more strategic and analytical value from the information
that those customers capture and manage within their Openbravo ERP systems. The breadth and modularity of Pentaho's offering will enable everything from embedded
operational reporting on day-to-day operations, as well as extraction and integration of Openbravo ERP data with information from other systems for advanced data
warehousing and OLAP analysis. The integrated products are planned for delivery later this year.
"We chose Pentaho because of their extensive functionality and expertise in business intelligence, and because they've made it so easy to embed dashboards and
business intelligence within our product line," said Manel Sarasa, CEO of Openbravo. "We recognized strong demand for an integrated solution that brings our
popular technologies together in a way that creates significant additional customer value in a commercial open source delivery model."
"Openbravo has emerged as one of the most popular enterprise open source applications, and we're proud to have them as an OEM partner," said Richard Daley, CEO
of Pentaho Corporation. "More and more software and application providers are turning to Pentaho for embedded reporting and BI because we've made it easy from
both a technology and program perspective."
As part of the agreement, Pentaho and Openbravo will also collaborate to provide seamless support about integration to commercial clients of both companies.
About Openbravo
Openbravo is the leading developer of web-based open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point of Sale (PoS) solutions for enterprises.
The company has developed a fully integrated, web-based ERP system tailored to the needs of any company, regardless of size or industry sector. Openbravo
ERP helps companies manage daily operations, optimize business processes, enhance customer satisfaction and ultimately increase profitability. And because
it is open source, Openbravo ERP puts the customer in full control without license overheads. Openbravo has won several important international awards.
In October 2007, Openbravo acquired the leading open source POS solution. The newly renamed Openbravo POS is a point-of-sales application designed for touch
screens. Openbravo POS is integrated with Openbravo ERP and is also available as a standalone product.
Openbravo is venture backed and has received record funding in the Open Source ERP space from a consortium of leading global investment firms: Amadeus Capital
Partners, GIMV, Adara Venture Partners and Sodena.
www.openbravo.com
About Pentaho Corporation
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 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
commercial 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 three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The
Global 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.
Openbravo Media Contact
James Gerber, Mike Kane or Hazel Butters
Prompt Communications on behalf of Openbravo
openbravo@prompt-communications.com
US: +1 617 576 5763 / +1 617 291 9899
UK: +44 (0) 20 8996 1653 / +44 (0) 7780 687813
Pentaho Media Contact
Samantha Hallock
Eastwick Communications
650.480.4071
Samantha@eastwick.com
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