ORLANDO, FL--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 7, 2008 -- Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced that Lars Nordwall has joined the company in the role of Senior Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Nordwall's organization is responsible for working with strategic ISVs that embed Pentaho's commercial open source technology within their application offerings, developing strategic technology partnerships, working with resellers, and further enabling Pentaho's growing global network of Pentaho Certified Systems Integrators.

Mr. Nordwall brings over 15 years of technology sales and executive management experience to Pentaho. Previously, Mr. Nordwall was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales for SugarCRM where he helped transform an early stage start-up in 2005 into a global firm with thousands of customers. Prior to joining SugarCRM, he spent four years in senior sales leadership positions at Novell focused on the company's open source and solution strategy. Mr Nordwall joined Novell as a result of an acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners where he spent six years in various sales and consulting leadership positions, including Senior Director of the Global Business Intelligence Practice.

Since Pentaho's founding in 2004 as the first commercial open source BI company, the third-party ecosystem around Pentaho has grown tremendously. Partners have turned to Pentaho for its technology and expertise in embedded reporting, analysis, dashboards, data integration, and data mining, as well as the company's ability to provide a complete BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open source BI products are now distributed by global leaders like Red Hat, Savvion, and Sun Microsystems. Leading open source companies and projects like Compiere, Openbravo, OpenMRS, and others have collaborated with Pentaho to expand their business intelligence capabilities. And major systems integrators like Satyam Computer Services and Unisys have teamed up with Pentaho to address global demand among end user organizations for Pentaho products and services.

"Pentaho's channel program is extremely valuable to partners who want to capitalize on the growing demand for highly scalable open source solutions," said Lars Nordwall, senior vice president of business development for Pentaho. "As the leading commercial open source alternative for business intelligence, Pentaho's commitment to customer success is evident and that success has created a phenomenal market opportunity for our partners. I'm pleased to lead the evolution of Pentaho's partner strategy as we continue to watch the transformative power of commercial open source change the dynamics of the business intelligence market."

"Our partners and their customers have received great benefits from working with Pentaho over the last 4 years," said Richard Daley, CEO for Pentaho. "Lars has the vision, experience and passion to lead the strategy and to deliver for Pentaho's global ecosystem, and we're very excited to have him on board."

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.

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