Pentaho Soars with Second Straight Record Quarter

Successes Include 177 Percent Increase in Enterprise Edition Customers, Launch of Industry-changing Product, Explosion in New OEM Partners

Orlando, FL, April 21, 2010 – Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced its strongest quarter yet. Compared to Q1 2009, Pentaho had a 177 percent increase in new Enterprise Edition customers. Q1 2010, the second straight record quarter, also saw a record number of new OEM partners and the introduction of the revolutionary Pentaho Data Integration 4.0.

With a rapidly growing number of Enterprise Edition subscription customers and SaaS partners including newly announced Swissport, Fidelitone Logistics, SmartLead by AdTrack and High Touch, Inc., among others, Pentaho remains the premier provider of commercial open source BI and data integration solutions. But the company's recognition doesn't stop there. Pentaho received further endorsement this quarter, successfully going toe to toe with IBM and SAP in February's "Developing Your BI Tool Strategy and BI Bake-Off" at TDWI World Conference Las Vegas.

NEWS SUMMARY

• Auto-Wares
• Ericsson
• Experian
• NTT
• Postbank P.O.S. Transact GmbH
• Toyota Kreditbank GmbH

• In March, Pentaho announced Pentaho Data Integration 4.0, a major product milestone in the company’s Agile BI initiative. The industry’s first integrated design environment for BI collapses all the steps from data integration and data modeling through end user visualization, so developers and business users can work side by side to build and deploy BI applications in minutes or hours rather than weeks or months.
• Immediately following the launch of Pentaho Data Integration 4.0, Pentaho set internal records for most unique website visitors, most product downloads, most community forum traffic, and most attendees to a Pentaho webcast – demonstrating growing Pentaho brand recognition as well as increasing interest in the company’s products.

• Q1 saw a continuation of last year’s explosion in Pentaho cloud, SaaS and OEM partners, including MICROS Systems, Inc.
• The company now has 28 Gold Resellers worldwide, and several of these have shifted to focusing solely on Pentaho. Pentaho’s Gold Reseller program ensures that customers receive excellent customer service anywhere in the world.
• In response to rising user demand in Europe, South America and Asia, Pentaho expanded its international training program during Q1.

Deep Management Bench
Pentaho continues to add the industry’s best and brightest to its executive team and board of directors. In Q1, Rob Bearden was appointed executive chairman of the board. Bearden, a luminary in the commercial open source software industry, most recently served as the president and chief operating officer of SpringSource before it was acquired by VMware. 

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