Pentaho Corporation today announced that it has entered into an OEM licensing agreement with Intel to integrate the entire range of software applications in the Pentaho Business Analytics platform into the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop.

The Intel Distribution features Pentaho's complete range of analytics software, which includes data mining, interactive reporting, analysis, data discovery/visualizations, dashboards, predictive analytics, data integration and of course full support for big data.

Richard Daley , chief strategy officer, Pentaho commented, "Intel embedding Pentaho into its big data analytics solution means that customers can more easily integrate Hadoop within their enterprise data environments while also providing exceptional analytics capabilities to a wider set of business users. We are very proud to be Intel's technology partner and expect it will bring valuable new opportunities for customers looking to leverage the disruptive power of big."

Girish Juneja , General Manager, Big Data Software, Intel Corporation commented, "As big data analytics continues to move into mainstream adoption in the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software with integrated analytics software from Pentaho will give enterprises the ability to store, process and analyse massive volumes of relational and non-relational data, enabling them to explore new business models."