London, 29 November 2010 — Pentaho Corporation, the Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration leader, today announced that on-site targeting and dynamic ads pioneer, Cognitive Match, has fired up Pentaho Open Source BI as they expand their product and service offerings. With Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition, customer-facing teams can blast out detailed analysis of vast amounts of online behavioral data, helping clients increase the relevance of advertising messages to buyers.
Cognitive Match, headquartered in London, is a content targeting solution. Their technology uses complex algorithms to monitor visitor behaviour over time and then target specific content to each visitor in real time. Cognitive Match delivers commercial results which have already attracted clients such as the Financial Times, Virgin Trains and Yahoo!.
When Cognitive Match extended its core technology to analyse on-site behaviour across both web-sites and online display advertising, they experienced significant increases in the size of data sets which needed to be analysed regularly and reported to their customers. This was a burden on their development team who was responsible for creating a wealth of ad hoc reports for both internal and external use. They looked for an Agile BI solution that facilitated iterative BI application development, was quick to build and had rapid return on investment. To meet their requirements, an independent consultant recommended Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition.
The IT team now uses Pentaho Analyzer to generate pre-built OLAP reports containing billions of decisions via a web interface for easy consumption by Cognitive Match's sales teams who share these reports with clients. In addition to this web-based interface for non-technical users, the technical team's power-users build their more complex ad-hoc OLTP reports using the highly flexible Agile BI capabilities of Pentaho Reporting. To speed up the development process still further, they opted for technical training from the burgeoning Pentaho Training arm.
Alex Kelleher, CEO of Cognitive Match, noted: "We are a fast-moving technology company with a relentless focus on providing a service which clients cannot replicate internally. Our demanding online customers need proof points to back their hunches with facts, adding real-time insight into their campaign planning and they also want to know how 'the magic' is done. We want to answer critical business questions clearly, no matter how complex they are, so we needed a reliable and scalable BI solution to display the results. This is why we chose Pentaho."
Kelleher sees the value in focusing his team on what makes most difference to his customers: "We know our value-added work is in analysis and insight, but also that report generation is not where our highly qualified team adds strategic value. Also, as our business evolves, our data analysis needs are ramping up. A very large site might generate a few million users per month, but analysing dynamic advertising options creates reports which can dwarf this volume. Using Pentaho allowed us to push BI reporting in the business users' hands to help them make better decisions, freeing up our time to concentrate on providing optimal customer service and a world-class product."
Vinay Joosery, VP of sales, EMEA at Pentaho said: "Cognitive Match is an innovative company and part of a new generation of Agile BI enthusiasts who appreciate the speed Pentaho brings to their business growth. Their use of Pentaho services is a case study example of how enterprise consulting and support can focus a team from the start towards a successful project."
Cognitive Match uses a mix of technologies to maximise online conversion by presenting more relevant online adverting and on-site content. The online channel is increasingly about real-time data and about making content, products and offers easier to find and more relevant to each individual. Cognitive Match has created light but highly effective software to enable this shift – and is working with leading companies including Yahoo, FT.com, Net-A-Porter, Hotels.com and Just Giving to leverage the predictive power of online visitor data.
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