Cloud Computing and Open Source Luminaries Headline Pentaho Partner Summit 2009

ORLANDO, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 03/10/09 -- Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence, today announced the keynote speakers and nominees for "Partner of the Year" awards for its upcoming Partner Summit, BI Acceleration, happening in Menlo Park, California on April 2nd and 3rd.

Bernard Golden, CEO of Hyperstratus, author of "Virtualization for Dummies," and Cloud Computing expert will discuss "The Era of Cloud Computing: Implications for Technology and Service Providers." Zack Urlocker, vice president of products, database group at Sun Microsystems, will present on "Open Source's Next Inflection Point." Larry Augustin, angel investor and former chairman of VA Linux will discuss "The Future of Software: Why Open Source is a Safe Bet." Bryan Senseman, partner, co-founder and CTO at OpenBI, a leading open source business intelligence services firm, will share his firm's real-world experience implementing cloud-based business intelligence using the Pentaho BI Suite.

Since its inception in 2005, Pentaho's partner program has attracted a diverse group of leading firms across multiple segments. OEMs and ISVs have worked with Pentaho to allow them to embed business intelligence features in their applications at a fraction of the cost of traditional proprietary BI software. Resellers and Systems Integrators have worked with Pentaho so that they can deliver robust BI solutions to end-customers without the customers' budget being consumed by expensive BI software license fees. Pentaho's growing partner community now includes more than 100 companies around the globe.

"We've developed a partner ecosystem that dwarfs any other in open source BI, and we're still only beginning to address the total market for our ecosystem as we transform the BI market together," said Lars Nordwall, senior vice president of Business Development at Pentaho Corporation. "We look forward to recognizing the success of our top partners, and connecting with new organizations that recognize the opportunity that Pentaho provides for their organization."

The following are this year's award categories and nominees for Pentaho's "Partner of the Year" Awards.

Reseller of the Year, by Geography:

      -- North America
         - Unisys
         - Carahsoft Technology Corp.
         - Red Hat

      -- Europe, Middle East and Africa
         - Linalis
         - SHS Viveon
         - Smile

      -- Asia-Pacific
         - Bizcubed
         - BrainChild
         - Gray Matter Software

      -- Latin America
         - Matrix CPM
         - Vinkos
         - Cognus

Partner Community Contributor of the Year:

      -- Chris Lavigne, Breadboard BI
      -- Ingo Klose, SHS Viveon
      -- Nicholas Goodman, Bayon Technologies
      -- Paul Stöllberger, Aschauer EDV

Embedded Business Intelligence Partner of the Year:
      -- BE-Centric
      -- Sircon Corporation
      -- Spidex Software
      -- Sun Microsystems

System Integrator Partner of the Year:
      -- Accenture
      -- Aeturnum
      -- Saama Technologies
      -- Satyam Computer

Technology Partner of the Year:
      -- HP
      -- Oracle
      -- Red Hat
      -- Sun Microsystems

High-Performance Data Warehousing Partner of the Year:
      -- Infobright
      -- Netezza
      -- Teradata
      -- Vertica

Most Valuable Partner of the Year:
      -- Bayon Technologies
      -- GrayMatter Software
      -- Red Hat
      -- Sun Microsystems

For a complete agenda and registration information, please see: http://www.pentaho.com/summit09/

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world's leading and most widely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.