"Infobright and Pentaho have joint client deployments in North America aswell as Europe," said Miriam Tuerk, CEO at Infobright. "Those clients havesophisticated data integration requirements and large volumes of data. Thisnew optimized integration will accelerate demand for integrated solutionsfrom Infobright and Pentaho."

The new connector, available for Infobright Enterprise Edition, allowsorganizations to avoid interim data processing steps like flat-filecreation, instead streaming data directly from the Pentaho Data Integrationengine directly into the Infobright data loader.

"When we established our partnership with Infobright a year ago, it waswith a shared goal to drive adoption of our solutions, make joint clientssuccessful, and to enhance our product integration," said Richard Daley,CEO of Pentaho. "Infobright's connector to Pentaho Data Integration is thelatest step in delivering even greater value to our joint customers."

As part of the two companies' strong partnership and commitment to educatethe business intelligence and data warehousing market on proven, lower-costsolutions, Infobright and Pentaho will be offering a complementary webinaron December 9, 2008. The webinar will feature Claudia Imhoff, President andFounder of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. Dr. Imhoff will provide an overviewof challenges in today's BI and data warehousing projects, as well asopportunities and considerations for open source software for thesecritical deployments. Representatives from Infobright and Pentaho will alsoprovide brief solution overviews. Registration information will beavailable shortly at www.infobright.com and www.pentaho.com.

About Infobright

Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, has pioneered thedevelopment of self-managing data warehouse software. The critical need forbusiness intelligence, coupled with the dramatic growth of corporate data,has outpaced IT's resources and budget within many companies. Infobright'stechnology solves this problem by delivering a highly scalable analyticdata warehouse that reduces ongoing management by up to 90 percent andcosts significantly less than other data warehouse solutions. Infobright'ssolution is being used by companies in online marketing, financialservices, telecommunications and other industries to provide rapid accessto critical business data with unmatched operational simplicity. For moreinformation, please visit www.infobright.com.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for BusinessIntelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition providescomprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, datamining and a BI platform that have made it the world's leading and mostwidely deployed open source BI suite. Pentaho's commercial open sourcebusiness model eliminates software license fees, providing support,services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the yearssince Pentaho's inception as the pioneer in commercial open source BI,Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, withproduction deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to TheGlobal 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.

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