SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/17/09 -- MySQL Conference & Expo 2009

What:

Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), will provide four exciting glimpses into the power and value of combining MySQL and the Pentaho BI Suite at this year's MySQL Conference & Expo, April 20-23, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, Calif.

The four sessions are:

"Starring Sakila: Data Warehousing Explained, Illustrated and Subtitled," Tues., April 21, 11:55 a.m., Ballroom F -- In this session, Matt Casters, Chief Architect for Data Integration at Pentaho Corp. and Roland Bouman of XCDSQL Solutions/Strukton Rail, take a close look at Sakila, a simple, publicly available sample database of a DVD rental business, which is popular for illustrating traditional database schema design issues and SQL queries. For detailed information, visit http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/7016.

"Self-Service Business Intelligence for MySQL," Tues., April 21, 3:05 p.m., Ballroom H -- In this session, James Dixon, founder and chief technology officer of Pentato, explains how to bring business intelligence to MySQL deployments with Pentaho BI Suite, the most comprehensive suite of BI capabilities in open source. For detailed information, visit, http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/8878.

"Cloud Computing With MySQL and Kettle," Wed., April 22, 11:55 a.m., Ballroom D -- In this session, Matt Casters presents a series of examples, working his way up from simple data loading to large-scale parallel ETL using the Amazon EC2 Cloud. Content includes an introduction to Kettle, Kettle slave servers, Kettle cluster schemas, an introduction to the cloud, and cloud examples. For detailed information, visit http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/6739.

"Unleash the Power of Your Data Using Open Source Business Intelligence," Thurs., April 23, 2:00 p.m., Ballroom C -- This session, presented by Christopher Lavigne of Breadboard BI, Inc., shows how Pentaho and MySQL were used by YachtWorld.com and Boats.com, the online marketing solution for the boating industry, to create a flexible, highly scalable, and maintainable market intelligence solution that could bring together all the required data and present information in an easy-to-use format. For detailed information, visit http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/5593.

When:     Starring Sakila: Data Warehousing Explained, Illustrated and
          Subtitled
          Tuesday, April 21
          11:55 a.m.
          Ballroom F

          Self-Service Business Intelligence for MySQL
          Tuesday, April 21
          3:05 p.m.
          Ballroom H

          Cloud Computing with MySQL and Kettle
          Wednesday, April 22
          11:55 a.m.
          Ballroom D

          Unleash the Power of Your Data Using Open Source Business
          Intelligence
          Thursday, April 23
          2:00 p.m.
          Ballroom C


Where:    Santa Clara Convention Center
          5001 Great America Parkway
          Santa Clara, CA 95054


Contact:  Samantha Hallock, Eastwick Communications, 650-480-4071,
          Samantha@eastwick.com

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is a commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that have made it a world leading and widely deployed open source BI suite for both on-premise and Cloud BI deployments. Pentaho's commercial open source business model eliminates software license fees, providing support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription. In the years since Pentaho's inception, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than three million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.