HDS strengthens social innovation initiative with Pentaho acquisition

MUMBAI, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), has completed its acquisition of Pentaho, data integration, visualization and analytics company.

Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Pentaho will retain its existing brand and continue to operate independently as Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems company under the leadership of its CEO, Quentin Gallivan, who will now report to Kevin Eggleston, Senior Vice President, Social Innovation, HDS.

The Pentaho platform will continue to be offered independently and has been integrated by HDS into its advanced analytics foundation software, where it will enhance the company’s existing big data analytics and processing technologies.

Through its integration with the Pentaho platform, HDS is now extending its data integration, refinement, monitoring, management, and orchestration capabilities to deliver an incomparably sophisticated data analytics stack.

“IoT isn’t just about big data–it’s also about small data that drives big outcomes,” said Vernon Turner, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems and Fellow for The Internet of Things, IDC. “HDS recognizes that distinction, and is building a robust analytics framework that uniquely combines Hitachi’s formidable industrial, societal and business expertise with its rich portfolio of data infrastructure and analytics solutions. The Pentaho platform provides a key unifying element that complements HDS’ OT and IT heritage and will pave the way for new innovations in the company’s IoT, analytics, and social innovation solution portfolios.”

Said Eggleston, “We are now primed to aggressively deliver on our unified vision for social innovation and the full promise of the Internet of Things that matter, by bringing to market holistic and sophisticated solutions that have the power to transform our customers’ businesses and entire markets, while advancing society as a whole.”

It must be recalled that through its strategic acquisitions of oXya, Pantascene and Pentaho, HDS is accelerating its social innovation vision and IoT product roadmap. At its Connect 2015 conference in Las Vegas in April 2015, HDS unveiled new social innovation solutions and services, including Hitachi Live Insight for IT Operations, Hitachi Clinical Repository for Connected Health, and Hitachi Live Insight Center of Excellence, and delivered updates to its existing solutions for the public safety and telecommunications industries.

HDS and Pentaho also recently delivered a new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) solution for SAP HANA that enables developers to process and refine big data from any source at scale.