Ventana Research’s new 2012 Data Integration Value Index has named Pentaho Business Analytics in the top category as a “Hot Vendor,” considering it a mature product with an excellent customer assurance.

This inclusion in the top category by the most comprehensive analyst and research coverage in the industry gives credibility to the product, and assures the buyers that the Pentaho Business Analytics platform delivers optimal value, product maturity and superior customer support, according to Ventana’s comprehensive evaluation of more than a dozen vendors.

Pentaho Business Analytics combines business analytics and data integration into one platform where it can be easily used by IT and business users. Users can access, assimilate, integrate, explore and visualize data they need from any data source, as the platform’s data integration capabilities support easy access, and integration with other data sources.

Its easy-to-use intuitive graphical tool helps deliver data to business applications.

Pentaho, the “Hot Vendor,” offers native support for the most popular big data sources like NoSQL, Hadoop database and analytic databases.

Ventana Research is a highly regarded research entity in the industry as it provides the most comprehensive analyst and research coverage. Ventana Research’s insights help advance the maturity of organizations' use of information and technology through its benchmark research. Businesses, Media, Association partners and IT professionals worldwide benefit from its research and advisory services.

Ventana Research Value Index for Data Integration 2012 enables buyers to evaluate data integration software offerings and choose the ones that suit their specific requirements and make better purchasing decisions.

Ventana analyzed Data integration software evaluated more than a dozen vendors before reaching its decision.

Rosanne Saccone, chief marketing officer at Pentaho, said that with continuous volumes and increased variety and velocity of data, organizations need fast and easy ways to integrate data as well as gain insight from it. She also indicated that the intersection of business analytics, data integration and big data is now more powerful than ever before.

The amount of in-depth research conducted for the 2012 Ventana Research Value Index for Data Integration makes it a valuable independent resource to help demystify and expedite the buying process.

Mark Smith, chief executive officer and chief research officer at Ventana Research, said the demand to integrate timely and consistent data is placing extreme pressure to automate supporting processes to be efficient in utilizing a full range of accurate data across the enterprise and Internet. He added that their comprehensive vendor and product research looked at over a dozen vendors, recognizing those that offer mature software and provide benefits planned for as part of an investment.

Pentaho should be congratulated for its rating as a Hot Vendor, the highest level, based on its reliability, adaptability and manageability of its technology, and for its commitment to TCO and ROI.

Pentaho Business Analytics platform was carefully evaluated for its ability to support full span of methodologies and processes used in data integration. 

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