SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Delivering the future of analytics, Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems company today announced the category winners of the 2015 Pentaho Excellence Awards. The awards program recognizes the most ambitious, innovative and impactful Pentaho implementations worldwide.
Companies worldwide submitted their nominations in five categories for the annual awards program. Category winners were selected by a panel of judges based on the creativity, impact and business value of their Pentaho deployment. The panel of judges included: Howard Dresner, Chief Research Officer of Dresner Advisory Services; Craig Wentworth, Principal of MWD Advisors; Rosanne Saccone, Chief Marketing Officer of Pentaho; Chris Dziekan, Chief Product Officer of Pentaho; and Dave Henry, SVP Product Ownership of Pentaho.
The five category winners received free tickets to PentahoWorld in Orlando, Florida on October 14-15 and will be honored at a special awards ceremony during the keynote. At that time, Pentaho will also announce the company that received the highest overall score and recognize it as the Overall Winner of the 2015 Pentaho Excellence Awards.
Congratulations to the 2015 Pentaho Excellence Award Winners:
Companies with an asterisk are also speaking at PentahoWorld 2015.
Big Data – FINRA*
Enterprise Deployment – CERN*
ROI – Mo’mix Solutions
Embedded Analytics - BlackArrow
Platform Innovator – TIDAL*
Learn more about each of the Pentaho Excellence Award Winners and why they were selected.
To learn more about PentahoWorld, register and view the full agenda, please visit: http://www.pentahoworld.com.
ABOUT PENTAHO, A HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS COMPANY
Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems company, is a leading data integration and business analytics company with an enterprise-class, open source-based platform for diverse big data deployments. Pentaho’s unified data integration and analytics platform is comprehensive, completely embeddable and delivers governed data to power any analytics in any environment. Pentaho’s mission is to help organizations across multiple industries harness the value from all their data, including big data and IoT, enabling them to find new revenue streams, operate more efficiently, deliver outstanding service and minimize risk. Pentaho has over 15,000 product deployments and 1,500 commercial customers today including ABN-AMRO Clearing, EMC, Landmark Halliburton, Moody's, NASDAQ, RichRelevance, and Staples. For more information visit www.pentaho.com.