Pentaho Recognized in SearchDataManagement.com's Data Management Product of the Year Awards

Pentaho Wins Silver Medal for Business Intelligence and Analytics; Praised for Community, Features, Ease-of-Use and Pricing

Orlando, FL – Apr 15, 2009 – Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced it was awarded the silver medal in the BI and analytics category of this year's SearchDataManagement.com Data Management Product of the Year Awards. In discussing the award, SearchDataManagement.com cited the contribution of the open source community, Pentaho's comprehensive feature set, ease of use and management, and pricing model. The award write-up is available here.

"By awarding the silver medal, SearchDataManagement.com clearly recognized the value proposition we offer companies of all sizes," said Richard Daley, founder and CEO of Pentaho. "By making it easier and less costly to deploy a comprehensive BI solution that incorporates the contributions of a brilliant community, Pentaho enables companies to meet one of the great business challenges of our time: how to gain the insights, efficiencies and competitiveness that business intelligence can offer without suffering from the cost, time and risk of proprietary BI rollouts."

Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition makes it cost effective for businesses of any size and on any budget to deploy easy-to-use BI to users throughout the organization. Pentaho lets business users easily create their own dashboards — including Adobe Flash-based visualizations — without any training. Pentaho can also be deployed for cloud business intelligence, providing companies on a tight budget with another way to drive down the upfront cost of bringing BI into their organizations. The thriving and active Pentaho community enables the rapid delivery of new and rigorously tested product features, ensuring a dynamic and innovative but stable platform. To learn more about Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 3, please visit www.pentaho.com/the_alternative.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho 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.

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