Comments on: Fortune 50 Discovers Pentaho, Open Source Business Intelligence Software

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:30:22 +0000

Jack: Your story doesn’t surprise The VAR Guy. And ironically, our resident blogger will be speaking with Pentaho’s new channel chief within a week. Stay tuned.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:48:12 +0000

We are now using Pentaho with ramsetcube and freeanalisys, abandoning our old BI tools. We expect to save about $150,000.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:33:26 +0000

What is the yearly license fee for the enterprise version..say for 4 cpus?

By: Onboard

Onboard — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:18:32 +0000

Tristan, we did not have another product in place. We considered Pentaho against a range of closed source BI products. A few of them are coming down from the enterprise and trying to service smaller businesses like ours. On licensing, deployment and ongoing consulting fees, we expect to save about $110,000 in first year deployment costs. That’s a conservative estimate.

By: Tristan Rhodes

Tristan Rhodes — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:12:48 +0000

Onboard,

You mention cost savings. What product are you migrating away from? I’m curious to see which products Pentaho competes with.

Thanks,

Tristan

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:05:42 +0000

Mike: Overall, The VAR Guy suspects, open source is a bit more established in the US. But that doesn’t hold true for all markets. Remember, SUSE Linux was dominant in Germany long before Novell strengthened its US presence. And start-ups like Spain’s Openbravo (open source ERP) have big followings in their home countries.

Onboard: Let The VAR Guy know how the Pentaho deployment works out. He’d love to hear all the details.

By: Onboard

Onboard — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:41:24 +0000

We’re a global 2000 with two divisions looking at Pentaho. I suspect it will be live in production in 09. Estmated cost savings is in the six figures just for year 1.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:27:18 +0000

Keep on disrupting the traditional BI market Pentaho. This is creative destruction at its finest! We’re quite pleased with their software here in our office, but perhaps not as impressed as this mystery $1 million Euro customer. Makes me think European businesses could be further ahead of the open source curve than us here in the states. We’ll see.