Pentaho's Mondrian OLAP Project Featured on MySQL Web Seminar Series.

Open Source Leaders Collaborate to Address Data Analysis Needs for MySQL Users

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that it will be presenting on Tuesday, October 24 at 10am pacific time as part of MySQL's popular ongoing educational web seminar series on www.mysql.com. The web seminar will focus on Pentaho's Mondrian OLAP project, showcasing the world's most popular open source OLAP project in tandem with the world's most popular open source database platform.

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) has become an extremely popular technology for users who need high-performance, interactive access to analytical information from their applications and databases. OLAP allows users to quickly navigate and explore their information, analyzing data across multiple business "dimensions" like product lines, time periods, organizations and geographies. Pentaho and MySQL provide a great combination to deliver world-class OLAP applications on an open source foundation using Pentaho's Mondrian OLAP project and MySQL 5.

Julian Hyde, Chief Architect at Pentaho and founder of the Mondrian project will lead the presentation, discussing some of the technical challenges associated with analyzing large volumes of data in relational databases. Julian will also describe how Mondrian and MySQL can address these challenges, and will cover architecture, functionality, as well as customer examples and competitive replacements of proprietary OLAP tools. The web seminar will also include a demonstration of Mondrian, widely acclaimed for its rich Multidimensional Expression (MDX) language support, embeddability, and performance.

"With more and more data warehouses deployed on MySQL every day, we are helping customers address a wide range of operational and analytical needs," said Edwin DeSouza, Senior Director of Product Marketing for MySQL. "Pentaho's Mondrian OLAP Project provides an excellent complement to the MySQL database by giving business users the high-performance, interactive analytical capabilities they need to get the most value out of their information."

For more details and registration information, please see http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/.

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About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho's mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including Mondrian, JFreeReport, and Kettle. Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.

For more information on Pentaho: Pentaho's web site is located at www.pentaho.org.