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GroundWork Partners With Pentaho to Enhance IT and Network Monitoring Products with Business Intelligence IntegrationMenlo Park, CA, Pentaho Partner Summit – Apr 2, 2009 – GroundWork Open Source Inc., the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, and Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence, today announced a new partnership through which GroundWork will integrate Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition with GroundWork Monitor Professional and Enterprise. GroundWork continues to penetrate the enterprise IT monitoring market, with half of its transactions in 2008 coming from customers looking for alternatives to traditional systems management solutions like HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, and BMC. These large enterprises are accustomed to using sophisticated business intelligence suites as part of their IT management solutions. "GroundWork's enterprise customers demand powerful business intelligence tools to link specific application and infrastructure monitoring data with broader IT business goals like capacity planning and improved IT service delivery, all with the same flexibility, extensibility, scalability, and cost savings theyve come to enjoy with GroundWork Monitor," said Dave Lilly, COO and Co-Founder, GroundWork Open Source. "Pentaho users will be able to integrate with GroundWork Monitor, leveraging their existing investments in the BI Suite Enterprise Edition and avoiding reporting tool sprawl. Its a real win-win for everyone." Pentaho's broad BI suite will provide the ability to access and extract data from a wide range of enterprise sources and integrate it with monitoring data from GroundWork Monitor Professional and Enterprise. Pentaho Reporting will enable pre-built as well as custom operational and historical reporting, while Pentaho Dashboards and Pentaho Analysis will support immediate visual insight into key operational metrics with the ability to interactively explore and analyze the data. About GroundWork Open SourceSan Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. is the market leader in commercial open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class network, system and application management solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. GroundWork's best of breed approach gives customers the flexibility to use diverse open source and proprietary technologies together under a unified interface, allowing users to leverage the advantages of open source while simultaneously preserving existing investments in legacy management tools. GroundWork's solutions are in use at organizations like Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Crocs, National Australia Bank, Siemens, Travel Click and World Bank. About Pentaho CorporationPentaho Corporation is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of global organizations deploy Pentaho software to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive BI suite that includes capabilities for data integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards. The Pentaho BI suite supports the company’s Agile BI initiative, which enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors. Pentaho was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.Pentaho Media ContactUS & WorldwideEastwick Communications 650 480-4054 Pentaho@eastwick.com Europe Positive Marketing Paul Maher Office: +44 7900 600013 | Direct: +44 5600 9210120 contact@positivemarketing.org |
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