Ingres and Pentaho Announce Strategic Technology Partnership to Address Growing Demand for Open Source Business Intelligence Solutions
Open Source Leaders Partner to Ensure Ongoing Integration of Key Product Lines
Slough, United Kingdom, 5th February 2008 - Ingres Corporation, a leading open source information management software and services company, and Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced a technology partnership to address the growing demand for open source business intelligence solutions. Through the partnership, the companies will work together to ensure ongoing integration of key product lines, as well as support the technology integration with joint sales and marketing activities aimed at the business intelligence market.
"Pentaho has made numerous investments over the last couple of years to certify our core open source BI modules on the Ingres database," said Erik Hoogerhuis, vice president of business development of Pentaho Corporation. "The large installed base of the Ingres database validates the technology strengths of the Ingres platform, and we look forward to partnering with Ingres to continue to drive production-ready open source BI integration in the future."
"Business intelligence is our fastest-growing application area driven in large part by the customer's need to extract more business value out of information locked away in ERP applications," said Fred Gallagher, vice president of business development, Ingres Corporation. "The breadth of Pentaho's offering is very attractive to our customers and prospects, and users will know through this partnership that we are committed to their ongoing success with open source BI."
Pentaho's BI capabilities, coupled with the Ingres database, can be used by organisations to address many different business challenges. For example, organisations can use Pentaho's operational reporting capabilities running directly against Ingres-based operational systems for real-time operational reporting. Other organisations that need an integrated view of the business spanning multiple systems can use Pentaho's extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities to integrate data from multiple ERP and operational systems into a data warehouse running the Ingres database. Business users can take advantage of Pentaho Dashboards and Pentaho Analysis to turn information from their Ingres databases into rich, interactive dashboards and sophisticated analytic views.
About Pentaho
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 3 million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organisations to The Global 2000.
About Ingres
Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company's partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centres throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally. For more information, visit www.ingres.com.
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