SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Strata -- Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced that it has entered into an OEM licensing agreement with Intel. Through the agreement Intel will integrate the entire range of software applications in the Pentaho Business Analytics platform into the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software (Intel® Distribution), being announced today.

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The Intel Distribution features Pentaho's complete range of analytics software, which includes data mining, interactive reporting, analysis, data discovery/visualizations, dashboards, predictive analytics, data integration and of course full support for big data.

Why Pentaho?

Pentaho Business Analytics offers big data integration and analysis capabilities and customer-proven embeddable architecture that is modern, open and scalable. These capabilities will enable customers using the Intel Distribution to create high performing big data analytics solutions tailored to their specific business needs.

Richard Daley, chief strategy officer, Pentaho commented, "Intel embedding Pentaho into its big data analytics solution means that customers can more easily integrate Hadoop within their enterprise data environments while also providing exceptional analytics capabilities to a wider set of business users. We are very proud to be Intel's technology partner and expect it will bring valuable new opportunities for customers looking to leverage the disruptive power of big."

Girish Juneja, General Manager, Big Data Software, Intel Corporation commented, "As big data analytics continues to move into mainstream adoption in the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software with integrated analytics software from Pentaho will give enterprises the ability to store, process and analyse massive volumes of relational and non-relational data, enabling them to explore new business models."

• Download Pentaho Business Analytics for big data and get started today with the instant and interactive capabilities.
• Visit with Pentaho booth at the O'Reilly Strata Conference, Feb. 26-28, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA.
• Hear David Henry, senior vice president of enterprise solutions at Pentaho, and Benjamin Lloyd, senior software development manager at NetApp, co-present "Dotting the I's with Hadoop on Eseries" at 2:20 p.m. on Feb. 28, 2013, at Strata.
• Join the conversation – follow @Pentaho, join our LinkedIn and Facebook groups.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho is delivering the future of big data 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. Pentaho is the only vendor that provides a full big data analytics solution that supports the entire big data analytics process, from data integration through interactive data visualization, exploration and predictive analytics. Pentaho natively supports Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB as well as high performance analytic databases like Greenplum and Vertica, among other big data sources.  Learn more and download for free at pentahobigdata.com/download

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SOURCE Pentaho Corporation