Pentaho Partners 'Rise Above' at Pentaho Global Partner Summit 2011

The Premiere Event for Driving Revenue With Open Source Business Intelligence

Orlando, Fla. — December 9, 2010 — Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) and data integration leader, today announced the keynote speakers, agenda highlights and Partner Award categories for the Pentaho Global Partner Summit happening in San Francisco, California on January 19-20, 2011.

2010 has seen unprecedented growth for Pentaho.  From being the first BI vendor to provide support for Hadoop, to the introduction of the world’s first unified ETL, modeling and visualization development environment, Pentaho has broken away from the pack of independent BI vendors.  As a reflection of the company’s continued momentum in the space, the theme of this year’s Global Partner Summit is “Rising Above.”

The Pentaho Global Partner Summit will provide attendees with tools needed to take advantage of Pentaho’s forward-thinking innovation, cutting-edge technology and rapid development, to help companies take their business intelligence practice to the next level.

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The event’s two-day information-packed agenda is ideal for any system integrators, consultants, or software resellers interested in starting or expanding a partnership with Pentaho. Highlights include:

• Keynote: Jos van Dongen, Owner of Tholis Consulting and co-author of Pentaho Solutions and Kettle Solutions, will candidly discuss how Pentaho’s offerings compare to other leading BI solutions in his Keynote session, “World Domination with Pentaho EE?”
• Technical Track: will focus on product features such as extending Pentaho’s capabilities, what’s new in the Pentaho BI Suite 3.7, and more including session presenters such as Pentaho Chief Geek/CTO, James Dixon, Chief Architect of Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle), Matt Casters and Chief Architect of Analysis (OLAP), Julian Hyde.
• Business Track: will cover sales and marketing topics such as lead generation, increasing the average sales price, and competitive positioning, covering multiple partner success stories and best practices in market development.
• Embedded Track: includes sessions on embedding, integrating and extending software with Pentaho from both a technical and business point of view. Sessions include Branding & Reskinning Pentaho’s Interface, Multi-tenancy and Security Tips and Trick, and more.

“With the exceptional momentum at Pentaho there is no better time than now to connect, share and take advantage of best practices from our Pentaho team and partners from around the world,” said Richard Baldwin, vice president worldwide channels of Pentaho. "We look forward to showcasing the success of our Partner Award winners, and connecting with new organizations who are interested in breaking into this rapidly growing space."

The 2011 Partner Award Categories are:

• Reseller Partner of the Year
• SI Partner of the Year
• Best Market Development
• Channel Manager’s Pick

• OEM Partner of the Year  
• Most Innovative Embedded Product
• Fastest Time-to-Market
• Largest Embedded Deployment

• Strategic SI Partner of the Year
• Technology Partner of the Year

• Best Community Contributor

For a complete agenda and registration information, please see: http://www.pentaho.com/events/20110119_global_partner_summit/

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho is delivering the future of business analytics. Pentaho's open source heritage drives our continued innovation in a modern, integrated, embeddable platform built for the future of analytics, including diverse and big data requirements. Powerful business analytics are made easy with Pentaho's cost-effective suite for data access, visualization, integration, analysis and mining. For a free evaluation, download Pentaho Business Analytics at www.pentaho.com/get-started.

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