Pentaho Swipes BI Customer from SAP Business Objects

>Pentaho snagged a customer from SAP Business
With its purchase of the New Zealand-based WekaObjects recently when Delta Dental of Virginia agreed
open source data mining project, Pentahoto use Pentaho's extract, transform, load (ETL) and
demonstrates its commitment to providing areporting tools rather than similar wares from Business
comprehensive open source business intelligence suite,Objects.
according to a company spokesperson. A VentanaInformationWeek reports the dental benefits provider
Research analyst confirms that the move is a goodmade the switch after a comparison of the two BI
thing, noting that data mining is one of the top BIsystems revealed that it could accomplish its goals
capabilities that users look for. Weka team membersmore quickly and at a lower price with Pentaho than it
aren't disappointed either, according to this piece, whichhad been with Business Objects. With the move to
says the project has grown such that it needsPentaho, Delta Dental joins a group of customers that
commercial-grade support and resources to continue.includes Lifetime Networks, Wachovia and Sun
Open source business intelligence software vendorMicrosystems, among others.