Singapore's Premier Regional Search Engine Deploys Pentaho Business Intelligence to Harness Online Business Information

ORLANDO, FL, Dec 17 (MARKET WIRE) --
Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for Business
Intelligence (BI), today announced that SPH Search has deployed Pentaho
Data Integration Enterprise, Pentaho Reporting Enterprise, and Pentaho
Dashboards Enterprise to provide greater visibility into its online
business. Pentaho's commercial open source BI products were chosen for
their standards-based scalable architecture, lower cost of ownership, and
proven global deployability after SPH evaluated alternatives from Cognos,
Oracle, and SAS Institute. Pentaho Certified Partner iZeno managed the
implementation.

A joint venture of media giants Singapore Press Holdings Group ("SPH") and
Schibsted Group, SPH Search is the company behind rednano.sg, the premier
online destination for users looking for information about Singapore, its
people, and its businesses. To manage and evolve a rapidly-growing online
business, users at SPH Search needed access to timely search metrics to
better understand customer needs and interests. Because of the nature of
its business pace, users could not rely on time-consuming cycles with the
IT department to provide key metrics, and needed a system that business
users could continuously adjust to their needs in a self-service model.

Pentaho Data Integration Enterprise allows SPH Search to incorporate data
from multiple different sources for an integrated business view, while
Pentaho's dashboard and reporting capabilities deliver interactive,
personalized information to business users. The Pentaho BI deployment has
provided numerous business benefits including:

-- The ability to understand user trends, keyword popularity, and
competition

-- Rapid adoption among business users and self-service access to
dashboards and reports

-- Greater visibility into product performance to drive strategic
decisions and product development

SPH Search's Pentaho applications are deployed on an HP ProLiant Server
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with the JBoss Application Server and
Oracle 11g database. Pentaho Certified Partner iZeno was chosen because of
the experience of the iZeno staff, a strong understanding of the Pentaho
architecture, and their ability to effectively transfer knowledge to the
SPH Search internal team to ensure long-term success.

"Pentaho and iZeno have the right combination of BI expertise, technology
know-how and strong services to meet all of our BI needs," said Patrick
Ng, CTO at SPH Search. "They understood our needs and rapidly delivered an
effective solution. Now, we have a standards-based BI platform that can
evolve as rapidly as our company does, backed by the experts at iZeno and
Pentaho."

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for
Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 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 production deployments at companies ranging from
small organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit
www.pentaho.com.

About iZeno

Established in 2003, iZeno is a premier solution provider of best-of-breed
open source business applications (ERP, CRM, BI and ECM) in the Asia
Pacific Region, China and Australia. iZeno's professional services include
open source business application consulting, system integration and
training. Our experienced team leverages extensive industry and domain
experience (Education, Hotel & Resorts, Technology, Telecommunications)
and flexible tools and methodologies to successfully deliver seamless
solutions. For more information, visit www.izeno.com.sg.

Pentaho Media Contact:
Samantha Hallock
Eastwick Communications
(650) 480-4071
Email Contact

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