SAN FRANCISCO and TOKYO, Sept 28, 2016 – (JCN
Newswire) – Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company, today announced the opening of
its new office located in Tokyo, focused on accelerating adoption of the
Pentaho Enterprise platform in Japan’s rapidly emerging and fast growing big
data and Internet of Things (IoT) markets. The new Japan-based team will work
in tight collaboration with other Hitachi teams including Hitachi Insight
Group(1) to accelerate Hitachi’s IoT solutions and services business utilizing
Hitachi’s IoT core platform, Lumada, and help the region’s enterprise customers
achieve greater value from their big data investments.

With more than 15,000 deployments and 1,500
commercial customers worldwide, Pentaho has a strong track record of success in
helping enterprise customers extract insight and maximize business value from
big data deployments. The company applied the knowledge and expertise gained
through these deployments to develop repeatable blueprints, designed to support
a broad range of industry use cases, such as Financial Services, Telecom,
Industrial, Retail and Government sectors, which it will bring to enterprise
customers in Japan.

“Pentaho’s powerful big data analytics,
integration and visualization software has been a strong complement to
Hitachi’s IoT solutions and services portfolios, which is among the most
expansive in the industry,” said Keiji Kojima, Ph.D., leader of Hitachi
Insight Group who also holds concurrent positions as Senior Vice President and
Executive Officer at Hitachi, Ltd. “Since Hitachi acquired Pentaho last
year, we have focused on accelerating global adoption of its platform,
culminating in this new outpost in Tokyo. With this new base of operations, we
can more tightly integrate our teams to drive exceptional business value and
insight for our enterprise customers in Japan and beyond.”

Pentaho will also collaborate with long-time
partner Cloudera to accelerate sales of the standalone Pentaho platform in
Japan. Together, the two companies make it faster and easier for enterprises to
harness the power of Hadoop. Cloudera Enterprise, the foundation of an
enterprise data hub (EDH), in concert with the Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)
platform, is optimized to deliver on the fundamental promise of big data,
enabling customers to capture, blend and analyze a broader array of data
sources to derive new business insights.

“The extension of this partnership in Japan
is built upon years of success in both North America and EMEA,” said
Kensaburo Tamura, Japan Country Manager, Cloudera. “Together, Cloudera and
Pentaho have made it possible to deploy Hadoop across a broader set of
organizations, address a broader set of use cases and deliver value to a
broader set of users. We’re looking forward to replicating this success and
track record in Japan.”

Pentaho plans to hire new employees and grow its
team at the Tokyo location in fiscal year 2016 and beyond to support business
growth. Eddie White has been appointed Executive Vice President and General
Manager of Japan and will be based in Tokyo, where he will be responsible for
driving new opportunities and accelerating Pentaho’s business.

“In my new role, I’m looking forward to
working closely with both the Hitachi and Cloudera teams to unlock the
possibilities of big data and IoT for Japanese enterprises. We’ll apply the
best practices and lessons learned from our more than 15,000 deployments in a
wide range of industry verticals to uncover new opportunities in Japan. Our aim
is to be one of the top three vendors providing big data and IoT solutions in
the region,” said White.

(1) The group formed in May 2016, which drives
Hitachi’s unified IoT business and go-to-market strategy worldwide.