| > | | | | Pentaho snagged a customer from SAP Business |
| With its purchase of the New Zealand-based Weka | | | | Objects recently when Delta Dental of Virginia agreed |
| open source data mining project, Pentaho | | | | to use Pentaho's extract, transform, load (ETL) and |
| demonstrates its commitment to providing a | | | | reporting tools rather than similar wares from Business |
| comprehensive open source business intelligence suite, | | | | Objects. |
| according to a company spokesperson. A Ventana | | | | InformationWeek reports the dental benefits provider |
| Research analyst confirms that the move is a good | | | | made the switch after a comparison of the two BI |
| thing, noting that data mining is one of the top BI | | | | systems revealed that it could accomplish its goals |
| capabilities that users look for. Weka team members | | | | more quickly and at a lower price with Pentaho than it |
| aren't disappointed either, according to this piece, which | | | | had been with Business Objects. With the move to |
| says the project has grown such that it needs | | | | Pentaho, 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 vendor | | | | Microsystems, among others. |