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July 29th, 2008

ebiz: Mozilla Deploys Vertica and Pentaho for Large-Scale BI

On July 28, ebiz announced that Mozilla Corporation has deployed Pentaho Open BI Suite and Vertica Analytic Database to integrate and analyze large volumes of log file information in a data warehouse and business intelligence system.

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July 28th, 2008

XOS: Mozilla Deploys Vertica and Pentaho for Large-Scale Analytics

On July 28, XOS staff announced that Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), and high-performance analytic database providers Vertica Systems, had deployed Pentaho Open BI Suite and Vertica Analytic Database to integrate and analyze large volumes of log file information in a data warehouse and business intelligence system.

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July 28th, 2008

Network World: SAP, Oracle price hikes open door for license optimization

Network World posted an article written by Chris Kanaracus on July 28 about Acresso, mentioning its recent announcement of a product tuned for SAP Business Suite. He believes that the product’s operational returns are well worth the cost.

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July 25th, 2008

ZDNet: PaaS embraces client access licensing

On July 23rd, Phil Wainewright of ZDNet wrote about PaaS vendor Coghead’s new subscription offer available for less frequent users. The article includes an interview with Coghead CEO Paul McNamara and he discusses their pricing approach.

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July 25th, 2008

VoIP News: According to Nemertes, Shoretel is best VoIP provider

On July 24, Alan Harten of VoIP News reviewed winners of the Nemertes PilotHouse Awards for Unified Communications & Collaboration. For the fifth year in a row, ShoreTel has been named Best Overall VOIP Provider.


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July 23rd, 2008

Enterprise Systems: Business Objects Reloads Mid-Market Product Line

On July 23, Enterprise Systems‘ Stephen Swoyer wrote an article about Business Objects — now an SAP AG company — and its hopes to build on its success in the small to mid-size company market. Business Objects has released many new products, but is closely followed by companies such as Pentaho.

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July 23rd, 2008

TMCnet: PaaS Provider Coghead Intros Builder and API Tools at Flat Rate

On July 22nd, David Sims of TMCnet wrote about Coghead’s new pricing options, as well as Coghead’s new API tools and Coglet Builder.

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July 23rd, 2008

SDTimes: Coghead offers a “slice” of applications

On July 22nd, Robert Mullins of SDTimes wrote about Coghead’s new pricing structure, Coglet Builder. Coghead CEO Paul McNamara explains in the article how the pricing and application slicing works.

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July 20th, 2008

Intelligent Enterprise: Sypherlink Upgrades Metadata Discovery, Mapping Tool

Antone Golsaves of Intelligent Enterprise wrote on July 20 that Sypherlink has upgraded its metadata discovery and mapping tool Harverster. Golsaves was happy to report that new design screens finally allow for the definition of ETL instructions and enable the automatic export and usage within data management tools, such as Pentaho.

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July 17th, 2008

ZDnet: Transitive’s magic – Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V

On July 16, Dan Kusnetzky of ZDnet wrote about how Transitive’s Solaris/SPARC applications can now be run by Microsoft’s Hyper V.

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July 17th, 2008

Internet News: SAP Raises Support Fees

On July 17, Richard Adhikari of Internet News wrote an article about SAP’s move to a more comprehensive and expensive support offering, SAP Enterprise Support. Acresso is mentioned as a company that has recently added SAP license management to its portfolio, allowing enterprises to centrally monitor and analyze their SAP license usage and hold down costs.

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July 13th, 2008

Intelligent Enterprise: Pentaho releases iPhone BI application

On July 13 Antone Gonsalves of Intelligent Enterprise wrote, Pentaho has introduced an iPhone application that can navigate content in the company’s business intelligence software over the Web.

In releasing the iPhone BI extension, Pentaho joins Oracle, Salesforce and other vendors in betting that the 3G iPhone, which Apple made available on Friday, will eventually be supported on corporate networks. Apple is offering an iPhone development kit for building applications that can run directly on the device’s operating system.

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July 12th, 2008

SupplyChainBrain: Defense Supplier Uses TradeBeam GTM Technology

On July 10, SupplyBrainChain reported TradeBeam’s deal with Vision Systems International (VSI) to provide global trade management software to the aircraft supplier.

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July 11th, 2008

TMCnet.com: CRM Veteran Allen Named to Manpower Board

On July 7, David Sims of TMCnet.com wrote about how Chordiant announced a new capability for insurance providers called Chordiant Insurance Self-Service. The product uses capabilities of the Chordiant Service Oriented Architecture platform, and enables policy shopping, quoting, and selection for insurance consumers.

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July 11th, 2008

Network world: 20 cool third-party iPhone apps

On July 11, Brad Reed of Network World wrote an article about iPhone applications.  Pentaho is mentioned as one of the top 20 app providers for the iPhone.

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July 11th, 2008

San Jose Mercury News: Female CEOs at Top Silicon Valley Tech Firms Down to Zero

On July 11, Brandon Bailey of the SJ Mercury News wrote an article critiquing the lack of women in high executive positions in Silicon Valley, especially after the recent removal and replacement of CEO Diane Greene. Many women are quoted, including Wendy Beecham, who runs Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives in Palo Alto.

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July 11th, 2008

NetworkWorld: 20 Cool Third-Party iPhone Apps

On July 11, Brad Reed of NetworkWorld created a slide show of the top 20 most interesting applications made for the iPhone. Pentaho’s BI application was featured as one of the top 20.

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July 11th, 2008

Information Week: Oracle Launches iPhone Apps For Business

On July 10, Mary Hayes Weier of Information Week wrote an article detailing the wide variety of applications made by tech companies specifically for the new iPhone. He highlighted the BI application created by Pentaho for iPhones.

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July 11th, 2008

Matt Casters on Data Integration: Pentaho and the iPhone

On July 9, Matt Casters posted on his blog Matt Casters on Data Integration about the Pentaho BI applications for the new iPhone.

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July 10th, 2008

Information Week: Oracle Launches iPhone Apps For Business

On July 10 Mary Hayes Weier of InformationWeek discussed how Oracle’s Business Indicators applications let users of several Oracle business intelligence applications get information sent to their iPhones. Finance, sales, and manufacturing managers can get alerts and updates based on predefined business metrics, such as if sales goals are met or shipment levels dip. Pentaho is mentioned as a application provider.

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