GroundWork Partners With Pentaho to Enhance IT and Network Monitoring Products with Business Intelligence Integration
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Pentaho Partner Summit, Menlo Park, CA - Apr 2, 2009 - GroundWork Open Source Inc., the leader in commercial open source systems and network management software, and Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence, today announced a new partnership through which GroundWork will integrate Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition with GroundWork Monitor Professional and Enterprise.
GroundWork continues to penetrate the enterprise IT monitoring market, with half of its transactions in 2008 coming from customers looking for alternatives to traditional systems management solutions like HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, and BMC. These large enterprises are accustomed to using sophisticated business intelligence suites as part of their IT management solutions.
"GroundWork's enterprise customers demand powerful business intelligence tools to link specific application and infrastructure monitoring data with broader IT business goals like capacity planning and improved IT service delivery, all with the same flexibility, extensibility, scalability, and cost savings they've come to enjoy with GroundWork Monitor," said Dave Lilly, COO and Co-Founder, GroundWork Open Source. "Pentaho users will be able integrate with GroundWork Monitor, leveraging their existing investments in the BI Suite Enterprise Edition and avoiding reporting tool sprawl. It’s a real win-win for everyone."
Pentaho's broad BI suite will provide the ability to access and extract data from a wide range of enterprise sources and integrate it with monitoring data from GroundWork Monitor Professional and Enterprise. Pentaho Reporting will enable pre-built as well as custom operational and historical reporting, while Pentaho Dashboards and Pentaho Analysis will support immediate visual insight into key operational metrics with the ability to interactively explore and analyze the data.
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.
About GroundWork Open Source
San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the market leader in commercial open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class network, system and application management solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.
GroundWork's best of breed approach gives customers the flexibility to use diverse open source and proprietary technologies together under a unified interface, allowing users to leverage the advantages of open source while simultaneously preserving existing investments in legacy management tools. GroundWork’s solutions are in use at organizations like Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Crocs, National Australia Bank, Siemens, Travel Click and World Bank.
