Oct 12, 2010 07:00 ET

Pentaho and Impetus Technologies Partner to Facilitate Large Data Analytics

Leading Technology and R&D Services Provider Incorporates Pentaho Agile BI and Pentaho

for Hadoop Into Its Large Data Analytics Practice

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 12, 2010) - Hadoop World - Pentaho Corporation, the open

source business intelligence (BI) and data integration leader, today announced a partnership with

Impetus Technologies, an award-winning software product engineering and professional services

company, serving customers ranging from aggressive startups to large technology companies, to

develop innovative software products and solutions. The partnership enables Impetus to be recognized

as a Pentaho Authorized Partner and encourages technical collaboration between the two companies as

Impetus incorporates both the Pentaho Agile BI initiative and Pentaho for Hadoop into its Large Data

Analytics practice.

The partnership coincides with the release of Pentaho for Hadoop, the first complete, end-to-end data

integration and BI Suite for Hadoop.

As part of its high performance computing practice (HPC) area, Impetus works on both large data

management and complex computing problems. The Impetus Large Data Analytics practice offers

expert consulting services and best practices support in Hadoop implementations and other commercial

massively parallel databases, including R&D, assessment, deployment (on private and public clouds)

and optimizations for enhanced static shared data implementations.

Impetus' HPC 360 degree approach offers strategies to solve complex computing and big data

challenges. Impetus creates proof of concepts (POCs) to assess HPC fitment and provides consultancy

services for HPC optimization, tuning and deployments on premise or in the Cloud.

Pentaho and Impetus will work closely together to expedite the adoption process of Hadoop and

Pentaho technologies, helping enterprises to move quickly from proof-of-concept and evaluation

projects to pilot and full-production deployments. The companies will also engage in joint marketing

activities to further drive awareness and adoption of Pentaho and Impetus technology and services

solutions.

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"Our partnership with Pentaho enables us to incorporate the Pentaho Data Integration and BI Suite for

Hadoop into the Big Data solutions stack," said Anand Venugopal, Business Head of the Big Data and

HPC practice at Impetus Technologies. "As we design and build Hadoop processing systems for our

clients, Pentaho ensures that these systems are scalable and easy to use and that they incorporate a

hybrid data model whereby end users can easily move their data between Hadoop and native

databases, data warehouses and other on-premise data stores. Furthermore, Pentaho's Reporting,

Dashboards and Analytics for Hadoop provide the required visualization tools for business users and

analysts to garner greater insight into their business requirements."

"As a leading technology and R&D services provider with a strong focus on High Performance

Computing, Impetus Technologies is an obvious partner for Pentaho," said Tom Leonard, EVP

Worldwide Business Development of Pentaho. "In opening up our technology to Impetus, we are

providing Impetus engineers with full access to the Pentaho Agile BI initiative as well as Pentaho for

Hadoop. In return, Impetus will become an active member of the Pentaho community and contribute

ongoing feedback on its deployment of Pentaho in enterprise-class Hadoop systems."

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Impetus.

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About Impetus

Impetus Technologies provides software product design, R&D and related services to leading global

technology companies. Impetus works on leading-edge technologies to develop a variety of next-

generation products for a range of vertical domains. From enterprise applications that optimize supply

chains and credit portfolios, to solutions for the emerging rich media and digital content verticals; and

from products for wireless networks and mobile handsets to software for network forensics and

communication monitoring, Impetus' emphasis on continuous innovation adds significant value to its

clients' technology initiatives. For more information, visit http://www.impetus.com or write to

bigdata@impetus.com.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the leader in open source business intelligence (BI), Data Integration (DI), and

Big Data Analytics. Thousands of global organizations deploy Pentaho software to make faster and

better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive

BI suite that includes capabilities for Hadoop, data integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis,

reporting and dashboards. The Pentaho BI suite supports the company's Agile BI initiative, which

enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily

and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors. Pentaho was founded in

2004 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.