Business Intelligence Deployed for One of the World’s Largest Open-Source Software Development Projects

ORLANDO, FL and ANDOVER, MA–(EMWNews – July 28, 2008) – Pentaho, the commercial open

source alternative for business

intelligence (BI), and

high-performance analytic database providers Vertica Systems, today

announced that Mozilla Corporation 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.

Mozilla needed to integrate different log sources to better serve its

growing user base. As Mozilla outgrew their homegrown log analysis

scripts, the company was looking for a more scalable solution. To improve

performance and simplify maintenance, Mozilla deployed Pentaho Data

Integration for extract, transform, and load (ETL)

capabilities and the grid-based, column-oriented Vertica Analytic Database

for fast, complex data analysis across the enterprise. Pentaho Data

Integration provides an easy to use ETL front end for administrators to

define and maintain data integration jobs as well as a powerful

metadata-driven integration engine capable of addressing large integration

jobs. Using the Vertica database enables Mozilla to store more information

and have more people query it faster and in more ways.

Pentaho Open BI Suite is a commercial

open source project and has a thriving community of users and open

source developers. Mozilla has interacted with this community,

contributing improvements to the platform, and utilizing community-driven

initiatives such as the Community Dashboard Framework and the Community

Build Framework. This enabled Mozilla to quickly deploy a complex and

dynamic BI solution with advanced features and a cutting edge user

interface.

“Pentaho and Vertica offer a great mix of leading edge technologies and

commercial support,” said Justin Fitzhugh, senior director of engineering

operations for Mozilla. “This provides a solid platform for Mozilla’s business intelligence system.”

Pentaho was selected for its open technology framework, solution breadth,

integration with Vertica Analytic Database, and Pentaho’s proven ability to

scale to address large data and user volumes. The Vertica Analytic Database

was chosen because its shared-nothing, column-oriented architecture enables

companies to analyze many terabytes of data 50x-200x faster than other

solutions, while running on low-cost, highly scalable “green grids” of

industry-standard hardware. Using the Vertica Analytic Database gives more

people the freedom to analyze more data in more ways, faster, so they can

out-innovate the competition. Pentaho Open BI Suite and Vertica Analytic

Database are deployed on a Hewlett-Packard DL460 BladeSystem running Red

Hat Enterprise Linux and the Tomcat application server.

“Speed of complex data analysis and querying across a broad spectrum of

business users is paramount to global enterprises such as Mozilla,” said

Vertica CEO Ralph Breslauer. “The speed and simplicity of the Vertica

Analytic Database makes it the perfect fit for companies committed to

increasing data-driven decision making at all levels of the business.”

“There is no question that Pentaho is fast becoming the open source BI solution of choice for

large-scale deployments,” said Pentaho CEO Richard Daley. “Only Pentaho

melds the flexibility and cost benefits of commercial open source BI with

the scalability and breadth required to drive business decisions from these

large volumes of valuable information.”

About Vertica

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic

database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware.

Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has

developed grid-based, column-oriented analytic database technology that

lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of

magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica

Analytic Database’s unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease of

use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast, Level

3 Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in real

time. Vertica is headquartered in Andover, Mass. For more information,

visit the company’s Web site at http://www.vertica.com.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI).

Pentaho Open BI Suite 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.