Pentaho Business Analytics Certified on Cloudera 5 for Apache Hadoop in the Enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Delivering the future of analytics Pentaho Corporation today announced that Pentaho Business Analytics is certified on Cloudera 5, Cloudera's unified data platform for the enterprise data hub that was released today. The combination of Pentaho with Cloudera provides organizations with an easy-to-use visual interface for Cloudera data ingestion, manipulation, integration and task orchestration. As a result, organizations are getting a more comprehensive view of data across the enterprise.

Optimized for a Cloudera powered enterprise data hub, Pentaho's Big Data Integration and Analytics platform give data-driven enterprises a competitive edge. Pentaho and Cloudera collaborated early to address big data market requirements and early customer use cases. This early leadership and open platform approach enabled Pentaho to offer deep integration with Impala and YARN, optimizing performance and access to Cloudera 5. In addition, Pentaho provides Cloudera users a 15X improvement in productivity – achieved through Pentaho's visual drag and drop integration tools combined with the unique ability of Pentaho's data integration engine to run and scale directly in-cluster. 

"Pentaho has been a loyal partner for years, most recently working in concert with us to accelerate the value and vision of the enterprise data hub," said Tim Stevens, vice president, Corporate and Business Development, Cloudera. "With advanced integration points on Cloudera technologies such as Impala, Search and YARN, we are thrilled to have them in the Cloudera Connect program, certified on Cloudera 5."

"Cloudera is a long time strategic partner of Pentaho and through Cloudera's certification program we can provide support for Cloudera 5 on the day it is released to the enterprise," said Paul Vasquez, Senior Product Manager, Technology Partners at Pentaho. "Customers wanting to start a new big data project or scale an existing one should be at ease knowing that Pentaho has executed the rigorous tests that are required for certification on Cloudera's platform for big data. Pentaho is at the forefront of innovation to provide customers with the toolset and big data blueprints to maximize their big data success, today."

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About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho is delivering the future of business analytics. Pentaho's open source heritage drives our continued innovation in a modern, integrated, embeddable platform built for the future of analytics, including diverse and big data requirements. Powerful business analytics are made easy with Pentaho's cost-effective suite for data access, visualization, integration, analysis and mining. For a free evaluation, download Pentaho Business Analytics at www.pentaho.com/testdrive.

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