MySQL AB Using Pentaho for Operational Expense Analysis

Orlando FL. - Nov. 20, 2006 - Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, announced today that open source database provider MySQL AB has selected Pentaho's BI Suite Professional Edition among other leading third-party BI software for internal business analytics and reporting.

MySQL develops and markets the world's most popular open source database software, with over 10 million active installations. Over its eleven-year history, MySQL has grown to become a global leader in professional open source, with employees and operations distributed around the globe.

"We selected Pentaho for its ease-of-use," said Steve Corey, Senior Director of IT for MySQL AB. "Pentaho addressed many of our requirements -- from reporting and analysis to dashboards, OLAP and ETL, and offered our business users the Excel-based access that they wanted."

"We've invested a lot to provide a product suite that can address sophisticated BI challenges comprehensively, from integrating the data to delivering it via dashboards and Excel," said Lance Walter, VP of Marketing for Pentaho. "And our innovations in ease-of-use are helping to bring more and more business users to professional open source BI."

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About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho's mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by a professional open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including JFreeReport, Kettle, Mondrian, and Weka. Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.