Orlando, FL, December 18, 2009 -- Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), announced today the availability of the Gartner report predicting production deployments of open source business intelligence tools will grow five-fold by 2012. The report will be made available for three months on Pentaho’s website at www.pentaho.com/five_fold_growth.

This Gartner report entitled, “Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools Production Deployments Will Grow Five-Fold through 2012” by Andreas Bitterer, presents key findings and recommendations based on analysis of current market traction and adoption trends. It shows open source BI tools are becoming a mainstream deployment option for all kinds of BI usage and predicts solid growth over the next several years.

“As the pioneer and leader in open source BI, it is rewarding to see how many organizations and community members have successfully implemented our solutions,” said Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho Corporation. “We see Gartner's prediction as strong validation of the success organizations are achieving with Pentaho and we look forward to further disrupting the proprietary BI market of old.”

“Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools Production Deployments Will Grow Five-Fold through 2012” is available in its entirety at www.pentaho.com/five_fold_growth, compliments of Pentaho.

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 / ETL, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world’s leading and most widely deployed commercial open source BI suite. Pentaho provides support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription that can lower total cost of ownership by 90% compared to traditional, proprietary BI offerings. Since its 2004 founding as the pioneer in open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than five million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.