Pentaho Corporation announced a partnership with Impetus Technologies, an award-winning software product engineering and professional services company, serving customers ranging from aggressive startups to large technology companies, to develop innovative software products and solutions. The partnership enables Impetus to be recognized as a Pentaho Authorized Partner and encourages technical collaboration between the two companies as Impetus incorporates both the Pentaho Agile BI initiative and Pentaho for Hadoop into its Large Data Analytics practice.

The partnership coincides with the release of Pentaho for Hadoop, the first complete, end-to-end data integration and BI Suite for Hadoop.

As part of its high performance computing practice (HPC) area, Impetus works on both large data management and complex computing problems. The Impetus Large Data Analytics practice offers expert consulting services and best practices support in Hadoop implementations and other commercial massively parallel databases, including R&D, assessment, deployment (on private and public clouds) and optimizations for enhanced static shared data implementations.

Impetus' HPC 360 degree approach offers strategies to solve complex computing and big data challenges. Impetus creates proof of concepts (POCs) to assess HPC fitment and provides consultancy services for HPC optimization, tuning and deployments on premise or in the Cloud.

Pentaho and Impetus will work closely together to expedite the adoption process of Hadoop and Pentaho technologies, helping enterprises to move quickly from proof-of-concept and evaluation projects to pilot and full-production deployments. The companies will also engage in joint marketing activities to further drive awareness and adoption of Pentaho and Impetus technology and services solutions.

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"Our partnership with Pentaho enables us to incorporate the Pentaho Data Integration and BI Suite for Hadoop into the Big Data solutions stack," said Anand Venugopal, Business Head of the Big Data and HPC practice at Impetus Technologies. "As we design and build Hadoop processing systems for our clients, Pentaho ensures that these systems are scalable and easy to use and that they incorporate a hybrid data model whereby end users can easily move their data between Hadoop and native databases, data warehouses and other on-premise data stores. Furthermore, Pentaho's Reporting, Dashboards and Analytics for Hadoop provide the required visualization tools for business users and analysts to garner greater insight into their business requirements."

"As a leading technology and R&D services provider with a strong focus on High Performance Computing, Impetus Technologies is an obvious partner for Pentaho," said Tom Leonard, EVP Worldwide Business Development of Pentaho. "In opening up our technology to Impetus, we are providing Impetus engineers with full access to the Pentaho Agile BI initiative as well as Pentaho for Hadoop. In return, Impetus will become an active member of the Pentaho community and contribute ongoing feedback on its deployment of Pentaho in enterprise-class Hadoop systems."