Pentaho Board Member Bernard Dalle to Present on Panel at European Technology Roundtable Exhibition

ORLANDO, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that Pentaho Board of Directors member Bernard Dalle will participate in a panel discussing the rapid growth of open source software and the synergistic opportunities that exist between open source software development models and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery models. The panel discussion will also include Marc Fleury, SVP and General Manager of JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Deborah Magid, Director of Strategic Alliances, IBM Software Group and Manel Sarasa, Chief Executive Officer, OpenBravo. The panel will take place at ETRE 2006 on Tuesday, October 10 at 5:20pm local time in Barcelona, Spain.

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Mr. Dalle is a General Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the firm in 1997. His current focus is in the areas of enterprise infrastructure, applications, and services. Prior to Index, Mr. Dalle held key roles at leading companies including McKinsey & Company, Merrill Lynch, and Procter & Gamble. He holds a M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and a MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business.

An active board member since 2005, Mr. Dalle will talk about how open source software is rapidly expanding beyond on-premises software to incorporation in SaaS solutions. Open source software frequently provides better technology, easier integration, and far better value for companies assembling SaaS applications. This creates an outstanding opportunity for SaaS providers to enhance their applications while lowering their costs, and helps expand the community of contributors to popular open source projects. As an example, Pentaho already has a number of partners creating and delivering SaaS applications that embed Pentaho's best-in-class open source BI capabilities.

Index Ventures is a forerunner in the open source investor movement and Mr Dalle will be drawing on a number of examples from the Index portfolio in discussing the opportunity for the SaaS model to accelerate the proliferation of open source software.

For more information on Bernard Dalle, please see www.indexventures.com.

For more information on ETRE 06, please see www.etre06.com.

For more information on Pentaho, please see www.pentaho.org.

About Pentaho

Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Formed by a highly experienced team of industry veterans, Pentaho's mission is to bring innovative, high quality technology and professional support to the BI market. Pentaho uses a revolutionary approach to development, distribution and support made possible by an open source business model. Pentaho is the primary sponsor and owner of popular open source projects including JFreeReport, Kettle, Mondrian, and Weka. Pentaho's technologies support a wide range of business initiatives from sales and profitability analysis, customer analysis, HR reporting, Financial reporting, KPI dashboards, Supply Chain analytics, and operational reporting.