Pentaho to Host First Worldwide Users’ Conference

Inaugural PentahoWorld Event Brings Together Users, Advocates and Partners to Help Shape the Future of Analytics and Big Data Innovation

May 29, 2014, — Delivering the future of analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced its inaugural global user conference, PentahoWorld, October 8-10, 2014 at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando, Florida. Under the theme "Bring Your Data to Life," PentahoWorld brings together users, advocates, partners and industry experts from around the globe to share best practices, use cases, project experiences, and valuable insights in key areas such as business and advanced analytics, embedded analytics, data integration and big data.

PentahoWorld is designed for IT professionals, BI and data integration developers, data architects, analysts and business users to share experiences and insights with their peers. Attendees will gain significant value from three days of highly interactive in-depth training sessions, best practice workshops, partner solutions and product roadmap presentations. Exclusive access to Pentaho leadership and experts will provide unique opportunities to learn more about the company's product road map and strategic investments.

"With the industry on the cusp of massive innovation and value driven by big data and advanced analytics, PentahoWorld is an opportunity to bring together the best and brightest to share expertise and best practices to help shape the future of analytics," said Quentin Gallivan, chairman and chief executive officer at Pentaho. "We are incredibly proud to welcome users, advocates and partners to Orlando from around the world to be part of our first worldwide conference."

Conference highlights include:

• Keynotes highlighting today's big data and analytics market trends and Pentaho's vision with demos and use cases
• Breakout session deep-dives of Pentaho roadmap plans, solution use cases, implementation best practices, how-to's and partner innovations
• Meet the Experts 1-1 meetings and whiteboard sessions with Pentaho product innovators, experts and partners
• Product training and in-depth education to deepen practical knowledge of Pentaho
• SolutionExpo showcasing Pentaho's rich ecosystem of partners and the latest product capabilities, innovations and use cases
• Networking with industry experts, customers, and partners on the cutting edge of strategy and implementation of big data, embedded analytics, and advanced analytics projects

Resources and Link for PentahoWorld 2014

• Learn more about PentahoWorld
• Register for PentahoWorld
• Become a sponsor
• Follow PentahoWorld on Twitter using #PWorld14

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.