Pentaho Expands Distribution Channels through Open Source Channel Alliance to Meet Growing Demand

Orlando, FL – Apr 14, 2009 – Pentaho Corp., a commercial open source alternative for business intelligence, today announced a significant expansion in its global distribution capabilities through the Open Source Channel Alliance, led by Red Hat and SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), offering Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition along with other leading open source products.

Led by Red Hat, the Open Source Channel Alliance is a consortium of open source Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The Open Source Channel Alliance is aimed at delivering the value of open source technologies to a large base of value added resellers (VARs) and system integrators through expanded distribution agreements with SYNNEX. Pentaho is one of nine founding ISV members in the Open Source Channel Alliance.

Pentaho is one of the only commercial open source BI providers that delivers an entire end-to-end BI suite, with leadership and sponsorship of all of its open source BI projects. As part of the partnership, SYNNEX VARs can now distribute Pentaho's entire product portfolio, including:

• Pentaho Reporting Enterprise Edition — accessing data from a wide range of sources and delivering it to business users in richly formatted reports via HTML, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe PDF
• Pentaho Analysis Enterprise Edition — providing speed-of-thought interactive analysis of multidimensional business data to allow power users and analysts to explore and analyze large volumes of data
• Pentaho Dashboards Enterprise Edition — displaying key organizational metrics and KPIs along with reports and analytic data to give business users immediate visibility into company performance
• Pentaho Data Integration Enterprise Edition — integrating information from disparate applications and databases into data marts and data warehouses
• Pentaho Data Mining Enterprise Edition — applying sophisticated analytic techniques to uncover hidden patterns and correlations in data
• Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition — Pentaho's entire, integrated portfolio of business intelligence products that have made it a commercial open source alternative to traditional, proprietary BI suites

"Our channel partners and their customers will benefit tremendously from the Open Source Channel Alliance because, together with the founding members, we can offer multiple end-to-end solutions in open source," said Bob Stegner, Senior Vice President, Marketing, North America at SYNNEX Corporation. "The Pentaho open source product suite empowers value added resellers, system integrators and end customers with the freedom of choice without the fear of vendor lock-in." SYNNEX is investing in open source because of the technical advantages and cost savings opportunities that open source offers to the marketplace. The alliance will drive open source adoption in the mid-market, and enable SYNNEX to deliver complete open source solution packages, which are increasingly attractive to organizations that are facing IT budget constraints due to the current economic environment.

"We're pleased to be working with SYNNEX, Red Hat, and other industry leaders to address the ever-expanding market for lower-cost, enterprise class BI solutions," said Lars Nordwall, senior vice president of business development at Pentaho. "Pentaho is a natural fit for any organization looking for proven, integrated open source products to address key business challenges while carefully managing IT costs."

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