Pentaho Corp. announced July 11 that its core open source BI platform and related projects hit a cumulative monthly download record of more than 55,000 in June. This rapid market uptake follows a series of significant second-quarter achievements for Pentaho and its Open BI Suite.

The brisk download activity in June reflects momentum generated over the previous three months with the announcement of the Pentaho Partner Program, the company's appearance on the Red Herring 100 North America winner's list, an award granted to a Pentaho-based application built by a customer, and several new Pentaho product announcements.

In April, Pentaho announced the Pentaho Partner Program and added more than a dozen partners worldwide who are delivering solutions on the Pentaho platform or providing services and expertise to apply Pentaho's BI capabilities to the diverse business challenges of different industries. The Pentaho Partner Program continues to expand and functions as an important resource for Pentaho clients seeking maximum value from their Pentaho deployments.

In May, Pentaho was named to Red Herring Magazine's list of 100 privately held companies in North America that play a leading role in innovating in the technology business.

In June, a Pentaho-based application built by Cendant company Galileo was named the winner of the inaugural JBoss Innovation Award in the Portal category. The application, known as myaccount.galileo.com, is a portal-based, BI-enabled extranet with a MySQL database that is designed to improve the user experience for thousands of travel agents around the world, reduce transaction and reporting time, and reduce overall deployment and maintenance costs.

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Prashanth Rai