Pentaho Announces Embedded Analytics in Eight Weeks

Continues strong OEM sales momentum with 130 percent growth OEM sales

March 13, 2012, — Pentaho Corporation, delivering the future of business analytics, today announced a new program, “Powered by Pentaho,” which enables Pentaho OEM partners to deliver market-leading analytics capabilities in as little as eight weeks.  The new OEM program is a response to the rapid rise in Pentaho’s 2011 OEM sales bookings, which grew more than 130 percent over the same period in 2010. Pentaho’s highly embeddable business analytics platform, strong training and services, world-class technical support and flexible pricing have fueled this momentum.

To date, hundreds of ISVs and SaaS providers have become Pentaho OEM partners. “We’ve made it simple and profitable for OEM partners to be powered by Pentaho Analytics,” said Anthony DeShazor, Vice President, OEM Development Services, Pentaho. “The Powered by Pentaho program gives our OEM partners, whether ISVs or SaaS providers, a pragmatic approach for embedding visually compelling and sophisticated analysis, reporting and dashboards into their solution in as little as eight weeks.”

“We selected Pentaho because it gave us all the tools we needed – including data analysis, reporting and visualization – in one easy-to-embed business analytics platform,” said John Gibbon, VP of Product Management, Marketo. “Looking for both a modern, flexible technology and a true partner, Pentaho helped us meet our goal of rapid time to market and delivered a feature rich product to the market in just 8 weeks.”

Ideal for companies with information-centric software or packaged applications, the new program helps software providers go to market faster with attractive and sophisticated business intelligence and data visualization capabilities. To ensure OEM partner success, Pentaho has included several key Powered by Pentaho program components that accelerate solution implementation and market entry, such as:

• Embedding options that require little to no development and enable partners to change the look and feel of the analytics application to match their style and branding, with only basic HTML skills;
• Developer-centric enablement and on-going technical support throughout the software development life cycle to ensure fast go to market;
• Training and architectural workshop sessions tailored to partner-specific integration needs

This program, along with Pentaho’s flexible OEM licensing and pricing and award-winning technology, provides ISVs and SaaS providers with an easy yet highly valuable analytics solution that is both cost-effective and low risk.

Read testimonials from Pentaho OEM/ISV/SaaS Partners who have experienced rapid time to market, increased revenue and market leadership by embedding Pentaho into their own solutions including Cipal, ExactTarget, HTK, Intelligent Insites, Marketo, Shareable Ink and more: pentaho.com/customers.  

Visit the Pentaho OEM Partner resource page for more information including white papers, webinars and case studies: pentaho.com/explore/embedded-bi/. 

About Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company
Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, is a leading data integration and business analytics company with an enterprise-class, open source-based platform for diverse big data deployments. Pentaho’s unified data integration and analytics platform is comprehensive, completely embeddable and delivers governed data to power any analytics in any environment. Pentaho’s mission is to help organizations across multiple industries harness the value from all their data, including big data and IoT, enabling them to find new revenue streams, operate more efficiently, deliver outstanding service and minimize risk. Pentaho has over 15,000 product deployments and 1,500 commercial customers today including ABN-AMRO Clearing, BT, EMC, NASDAQ and Sears Holdings Corporation. For more information visit www.pentaho.com.