Pentaho

Markets and Channels

Pentaho is a global player, which has evolved from a typical Open Source solution, i.e. one with the capability and functionality as an affordable price that initially attracted people in the mid to lower tier of the market. Today it has the capability, in terms of management and security, and the capability to scale to meet the demands of Enterprise customers and offer a viable alternative to the likes of SAP, Oracle, IBM, Informatica and Microsoft.

Users 

Customers that feature in their website include such names as ABN-Ambro, Nasdaq, EMC, Sears, Brussels airport, Moody's and Staples, which illustrates the breadth of capability and appeal that the solution has.

Technology

Through their in-house capability, and the efforts of their open source community Pentaho has developed a breadth of capability that is amongst the leaders in the industry. Their focus on bringing the worlds of traditional data warehousing and big data together have also positioned them amongst the leaders in the industry, which made their acquisition by Hitachi a logical step for both parties. Pentaho has significant partnerships with Amazon web services, Cloudera, HP Vertica and MongoDB.

Services

As part of Hitachi Pentaho is a component of one of the markets larger technology companies, and offers the full range of services from training and accreditation, to consulting, and technical support.

Pentaho have a global presence with an emphasis on North America and Europe, Its customers are broadly based and includes a number of well known brands such as Lufthansa, ABN Ambro, Nasdaq, Westfield and Telefonica. They have partnerships with major SI players such as Cognizant and Accenture.

Pentaho is used by a broadly based customer profile which shows a global reach and no over emphasise in any one sector, but a solid coverage across markets and with increasing numbers of household names alongside a solid mid tier base.

Pentaho have significant partnerships with Mongo DB, Cloudera, Vertical and Bnova. They are players in both the traditional BI markets including data warehousing and also the Big data market. They have offerings in all of the significant areas such as visualisation, embedded applications, data blending, advanced analytics etc to show that they are innovators and not just followers.

They offer the full range of install, exploit and support services, including training and certification.