Pentaho Announces Record Year in 2013 with 83% Growth in Big Data and Embedded Analytics

Product innovation drives unprecedented enterprise customer growth

March 12, 2014, — Delivering the future of analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced that 2013 was another record year with 83 percent bookings growth from big data and embedded analytics customers over 2012. These two high growth segments now account for 50 percent of Pentaho's total revenue. The rapid growth is a result of growing enterprise customer adoption of next-generation big data and embedded analytics.

The introduction of Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 and the launch of Pentaho Labs were two key drivers of the strong enterprise adoption in 2013. Pentaho 5.0 is a completely re-architected platform that greatly simplifies the entire analytics experience for all users and delivers the industry's first just in time big data blending 'at the source.' The research and joint customer prototyping inside Pentaho Labs is driving innovation in big data integration and analytics through advanced technology incubation projects.

Ability to execute and completeness of vision were recognized in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, resulting in Pentaho's improved placement. Gartner predicted in its report, "By 2015, enterprise buyers of BI platforms will predominantly purchase platforms that support both strong and broad business-user-accessible data discovery capabilities and IT-driven enterprise features for data reuse, governance, security and scalability."

"Big data technologies are advancing at speeds like never before. To succeed in a market that has been valued at upwards of $19 billion, you need to be nimble with the mindset of relentless innovation," said Quentin Gallivan, Chairman and CEO of Pentaho. "Pentaho's trajectory with enterprise implementations validates our platform is a modern approach to 'future-proofing' customer deployments and keeping pace with this rapidly evolving big data environment. We're looking forward to seeing this continue in 2014."

Learn more about Pentaho's position on the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence & Analytics Platforms. Download the full report.

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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.