Pentaho Named a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor for its Agile BI Software Innovation

Pentaho Open Source BI Undercuts Industry Giants

Orlando, Fla. – June 24, 2010 – Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. CRN’s Emerging Technology Vendor list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.

The Pentaho BI Suite provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration and data mining a BI platform that has made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Pentaho’s Agile BI approach 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.

“Solution providers are always looking for new and innovative technology to solve business problems for their customers. As this industry has shown, today’s emerging vendor can be tomorrow’s Cisco, Google or Facebook and getting ahead of technology can help a VAR grow their business and differentiate their offerings,” said Kelley Damore, Vice President, Editorial Director, Everything Channel.

The vendors who make the CRN Emerging Technology Vendor list were founded in 2001 or later, have revenue under $1 billion and have an active U.S. channel strategy. Final selection to the Emerging Technology Vendor list was made by the CRN editorial team after a review of submitted information.

“The CRN Emerging Tech list provides resellers with important information they need to help increase sales with the latest in innovative solutions,” said Richard Daley, founder and CEO of Pentaho. “We are proud to be called out as one of this year’s top emerging technology companies. Customers have clearly recognized that the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition helps them achieve BI success by saving time, resources and money. In these times, partners need to bring more meaningful value to their customers and we help them do so.”

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About Everything Channel

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

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Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

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