Lucid Imagination featured in ArnoldIT: Lucid Rivets a Search Deal
A promising merger in the open source enterprise search world could have serious reverberations for computer users. A Yahoo! News article, “Rivet Logic and Lucid Imagination Partner to Deliver Innovative Enterprise and Search Solutions,� broke the story that Rivet Logic, a leader in open source content management, and enterprise search powerhouse Lucid Imagination, plan to fuse both operations together.
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Pentaho featured in Intelligent Enterprise: Enterprise-Grade Hadoop for Petabyte Analytics
Hadoop is riding the hype wave right now. You’ll find many IT professionals who know just enough about Hadoop to be dangerous in a cocktail party setting, but not enough for their own comfort to respond to grilling from the chief technology officer or the geekier business executives.
If you’re slightly bewildered by all the buzz over this new technology with the funny-sounding moniker, you’re not alone. The official story is that Hadoop was the name of the inventor’s kid’s stuffed elephant. However, for most IT professionals, it could easily be an acronym for “Heck, Another Darn Obscure Open-source Project.” The fact that Hadoop, managed by Apache, includes subprojects with similarly opaque names–such as Pig, Hive, Chukwa, and ZooKeeper—contributes to the queasy feeling that this is an untamed menagerie of squealing beasties.
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Pentaho featured in SD Times: Lower the cost of Business Intelligence with Open Source
Many of the top reasons given for the use of open source business intelligence software are “lower costs.” The question is whether commercial open source actually matters when it comes to lowering license and support costs. How real are cost savings? How much does BI software and ongoing support actually cost? A new analyst report, Lowering the Cost of Business Intelligence with Open Source, by Mark Madsen of Third Nature research and consulting firm, compares the software and support costs of traditional BI vendors with commercial open source BI from Pentaho.
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Pentaho featured in Formtek Blog: Open Source: Advocate to Government
Two years ago a group was founded with the charter of lobbying for the expanded use of Open Source software within the government.  The group is called Open Source for America (OSFA), and it has more than 70 members that include companies like Acquia, Alfresco Software, Advanced Micro Devices, Black Duck Software, CollabNet, Debian, Electronic Frontier Foundation, EnterpriseDB, Google, Ingres, Jaspersoft, Mitch Kapor, KnowledgeTree, The Linux Foundation, Lucid Imagination, Mozilla,  Novell,  Oracle, O’Reilly Publishing, Pentaho, Red Hat, SpikeSource, SugarCRM, and Zimbra.
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Pentaho featured in SYS-CON Media: Announcing Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop Version 3
On Tuesday Cloudera announced the third version of Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH). Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop version 3 is the most comprehensive Hadoop-based data management platform on the market.
Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop v3 consists of core Apache Hadoop and 8 additional open source projects, all tested and integrated into a platform that is easy to install and use. Cloudera’s Distribution lowers the bar for Hadoop adoption and usage in the enterprise.
By Elizabeth White
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Pentaho featured in eWeek: Cloudera Launches New Hadoop Distribution
Cloudera, a leading provider of Hadoop-based data management software and services, has announced the third version of its Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH).
Cloudera announced the new version at the Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., on June 29. Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop version 3 is the most comprehensive Hadoop-based data management platform on the market.
By Darryl Taft
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Pentaho featured in PCWorld: Cloudera Preps Hadoop for the Enterprise
Cloudera has unveiled a new set of Hadoop management tools, called Cloudera Enterprise, that the company will offer for an annual subscription fee, it announced on Tuesday. It has also updated its open-source distribution package of Hadoop.
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Pentaho featured in Enterprise Storage Forum: Hadoop Makes Sense of Lots of Data
Mike Karp, an analyst with Ptak, Noel & Associates, cautions that any kind of open-source software is by its very nature a double-edged sword: Cheap to implement, but often hard to find adequate support, especially in the early stages of adoption.
 ”Most of where the support would come from, after all, is a group of volunteers; as a result, companies are often nervous about doing open source code with business-critical applications,” said Karp. “The good news, of course, is that these volunteers frequently are often inspired to write great code, and there’s plenty of evidence in the past that open-source projects have achieved great success.”
By Drew Robb
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Pentaho featured in ComputerWorld: Cloudera preps Hadoop for the enterprise
Cloudera has unveiled a new set of Hadoop management tools, called Cloudera Enterprise, that the company will offer for an annual subscription fee, it announced on Tuesday. It has also updated its open-source distribution package of Hadoop.
By Joab Jackson
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Pentaho featured in Financial Tech Spotlight: Accession Media Uses Pentaho Data Integration to Drastically Reduce Reporting Time
According to an announcement made by Pentaho Corporation, Pentaho Data Integration has been successfully deployed by Accession Media. With this deployment, on-demand reporting and analysis will be provided by Accession Media to its clients. Using the automated, codeless data integration tools, within Pentaho Data Integration along with the Google (News – Alert) Analytics plug-in, the reports that once took hours to create by cutting and pasting data are now created in seconds. The increased operational efficiency and reduced costs can be passed by Accession Media to their customers.
By Calvin Azuri
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Pentaho featured in Dotnet: Pentaho Open Source BI Goes On-Demand
Pentaho has taken its open source business intelligence (BI) widgetry and, through the wonders of VMware virtualization, made it into an on-demand subscription service that it fancies will remove critical barriers to BI adoption by giving customers control over how the solution is deployed and managed – by Pentaho, by the customer, or by both.
By Maureen O’Gara
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Pentaho featured in IT Business Edge: The Bifurcation of Business Intelligence
There’s growing tension among proponents of business intelligence solutions as new offerings based on open source software and software-as-a-service solutions gain traction.
A recent worldwide survey of 457 executives conducted by Dresner Advisory Services finds that end users are starting to embrace these offerings, largely because they are simpler to use and can be paid within a department’s budget, but sometimes in spite of the BI standards driven largely by the IT department.
By Michael Vizard
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Pentaho featured in Computer Weekly: Pentaho offers free trial of cloud-based BI suite
Open source business intelligence (BI) company Pentaho has introduced an on-demand subscription service for the Pentaho BI Suite.
Pentaho’s On-Demand BI Subscription is deployed via a virtual image, which Pentaho said eliminates any portability issues should the customer decide to move their BI suite to their on-premises infrastructure.
 By Cliff Saran
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Pentaho featured in Goodman on BI: SaaS or On Site? Who cares with Pentaho On Demand
Pentaho launched their On Demand initiative today: Press Release.
While the launch is new, I know that Pentaho has already onboarded some customers in a quiet soft launch and the response has been very positive. Why wouldn’t it be? This offering is the best of both worlds, and makes purchasing a business department driven BI project easy.
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Pentaho featured in Database Trends and Applications: Data Center Trends – The 12 Top Ways Data Management Will Evolve in the 2010s
In only a few years’ time, the world of data management has been altered dramatically, and this is a change that is still running its course. No longer are databases run in back rooms by administrators worrying about rows and columns. Now, actionable information is sought by decision makers at all levels of the enterprise, and the custodians of this data need to work closely with the business.
That’s because, in the wake of the recent financial crisis and economic downturn, there’s a push from both high-level corporate management and regulators to achieve greater understanding and greater transparency across the enterprise, Jeanne Harris, executive research fellow and a senior executive at the Accenture Institute for High Performance, and co-author, along with Tom Davenport, of Competing on Analytics and Analytics at Work, tells DBTA. “In many ways, I think the ultimate result of the financial crisis is that executives realized they cannot delegate analytics to subordinates; they can’t view it as technology or math that doesn’t really affect them.”
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Pentaho featured in Information Week: Pentaho Takes Open Source BI On Demand
Hoping to win over companies suffering from business intelligence fear factor, open-source vendor Pentaho on Tuesday will announce an On-Demand BI Subscription offering. The service promises quickly deployed, low-cost BI implementations starting at $3,500 per month.
Pentaho’s On-Demand BI Subscription starts with dedicated data storage, network bandwidth and data-processing capacity served up from a secure data center with managed backup capabilities. The service also includes access to Pentaho’s entire Enterprise Edition BI Suite, with modules for everything from metadata modeling and extract-transform-load data integration to data analysis and reporting. The vendor is also offering optional services ranging from application development and integration to ongoing systems administration.
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Pentaho featured in Information Management: Open Source Makes a Difference
The obvious reason to use open source software is cost savings, says Mark Madsen, president of market research firm Third Nature. But, whether you actually save when it comes to license and support costs is the question among many.
Using public sources and vendor information, Madsen created a Pentaho-sponsored cost comparison report (“Lowering the Cost of Business Intelligence With Open Source�), comparing BI software and support costs from Pentaho, IBM (Cognos), MicroStrategy, Oracle and SAP (Business Objects).
Open source does matter, Madsen was quoted to say. “At the entry level with a small number of users, open source can be a little to a lot less expensive. As the environment scales up the difference becomes much more noticeable.�
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Pentaho featured in The Var Guy: Pentaho, Backed by Channel, Delivers Record 1Q Results
Pentaho, the open source business intelligence company, generated record results in 1Q 2010, according to VP of Marketing Joe McGonnell. Pentaho attributes much of its performance to a growing channel partner program. Here’s a closer look at Pentaho’s momentum.
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Pentaho featured in InformationWeek: Pentaho Release Blends Data Integration, BI
Pentaho News: Most people think of Pentaho as an open-source business intelligence vendor. In fact, the company’s most popular product is ETL software. Pentaho now hopes to trade on that popularity with an integrated development environment (IDE) that blends data integration and business intelligence.
By: Doug Henshcen
Date of Article: April 2, 2010
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BeyeNETWORK Announces Release of Research on Open Source Adoption
Pentaho News: BeyeNETWORK announces the publication of a new research report and webinar, Open Source Solutions: Managing, Analyzing and Delivering Business Information, researched by Mark Madsen, industry expert and president of Third Nature. This report describes the evolution of open source technology from a small user community to commercially produced solutions for the business intelligence and data warehouse market.
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