Pentaho Extends the Benefits of Open Source BI to More Markets and Application Types

ORLANDO, FL, May 05 (MARKET WIRE) --
Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI),
today
announced the availability of Mondrian 3.0, the latest release of the
company's popular OLAP server, a key component of the Pentaho Open BI Suite.
With enhanced analytics and other features, including cell-level security and
aggregate role support, Pentaho now lets more companies in more markets take
advantage of the flexibility, agility and cost benefits of commercial open
source business intelligence.

The enhanced analytic functions can be used by organizations in a variety of
industries. For example, the new percentile calculation lets a sales manager
looking at high-volume customers immediately see the percentile that the
customer
falls into based on sales volume. The same function can be used by financial
services firms to better understand branch profitability and by governmental
organizations to measure local agency performance or aggregated citizen
demographics. Another new function, the Net Present Value calculation, lets
users weigh the long-term cost or value of certain investments based on the
investment period and expected rate of return.

"Companies around the world have experienced business benefits from using
commercial open source solutions in other areas, and Ventana's research
shows that organizations have been moving aggressively to obtain similar
benefits for business intelligence," said David Stodder, VP and research
director -
Information Management and IT Performance Management at Ventana Research.
"Pentaho Open BI Suite is a leading open source BI solution. With the breadth of
analytics capabilities and new security features delivered in the latest release
of
Mondrian, Pentaho has significantly broadened the types of OLAP applications
thatcan be supported. The new release should increase interest in commercial
open source
BI over the coming months."

Leading organizations use Mondrian to address a wide range of strategic
business
problems. For example, Frontier Airlines, a major North American airline, uses
Pentaho's open source OLAP technology to analyze more than four years of
ticket sales information stored at the individual ticket level. Finance and
operations staff at Loma Linda University Health Care, the management service
organization that supports the many programs and services provided by more
than 600 faculty physicians employed by Loma Linda University professional
corporations, use Mondrian to analyze service delivery and billing by a number
of
business "dimensions," including time periods, billing groups, providers, and
more.

Key New Features of Mondrian 3.0

For detailed information on these features and many other new features,
visit
www.pentaho.com.

-- Advanced analytics capabilities and support for a broader range of
OLAP applications

-- Cell-level security and aggregated role support for much greater
controlover who can access what information

-- Streamlined and simplified path from design to rollout of OLAP
applications

-- Support for the OLAP4J API, the first open standard for OLAP APIs
developed
by the open source community

-- Support for JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) -- for more
flexible
connectivity to data sources

-- Mondrian Schema Workbench -- a graphical designer now integrated with the
Pentaho platform and supported by Pentaho

-- Updated integration with the Pentaho Open BI Suite for seamless OLAP
integration with reporting, dashboards and the Pentaho BI Platform

"Our commercial success and the response of our customers demonstrates
thatPentaho is increasingly viewed as the superior alternative to inflexible
proprietary
BI solutions that can never respond to evolving market needs," said Richard
Daley, founder and CEO of Pentaho. "Our product is advancing with incredible
speed,
and our momentum in the market will be further fueled by current economic
conditions that make solid business intelligence more vital than ever before,
even as
companies have less money to spend on it. With our customer-friendly
business model, Pentaho is becoming the BI vendor of choice."

Availability

Mondrian 3.0, both standalone and integrated with the Pentaho Open BI Suite,
is available immediately at www.pentaho.com/download/.

Subscription services, including support, certified versions, and IP
indemnification for Mondrian 3.0, are available immediately. For more details,
see www.pentaho.com/subscriptions/.

Professional training for Mondrian 3.0 is available immediately. For
training
information, please see www.pentaho.com/services/training.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business
Intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP
analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have
made it the world's leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite.
Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license
fees,
providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual
subscription.
In the years since Pentaho's inception as the pioneer in commercial open source
BI,
Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with
productiondeployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The
Global 2000.
For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.

Media Contact:
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Eastwick Communications
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