Balanced Insight and Pentaho Form Partnership

CINCINNATI, OH – September 1, 2006 – Balanced Insight, a leader in providing organizations with a company-wide platform that drives better-designed and more business-focused business intelligence applications, announced a partnership with Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite.

The partnership is a natural fit for enterprises seeking to deliver more robust business intelligence solutions that are value oriented. Balanced Insight provides the blueprint for building Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehousing solutions, while Pentaho provides a full spectrum of open source BI visualization capabilities including reporting, analysis, and dashboards within their BI platform.

“The innovative combination of Balanced Insight and Pentaho provides a robust platform for delivering high value, low cost BI solutions,” says Tom Hammergren, President and CEO of Balanced Insight. “Our collective vision will help revolutionize the next generation of Business Intelligence and Performance Management.”

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 Mondrian, JFreeReport, Kettle, and Weka.
For more information visit www.pentaho.org

About Balanced Insight, Inc.
Balanced Insight, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, helps companies double the return on their business intelligence (BI) and performance management investments. Its signature Balanced Insight Consensus™ software is a company-wide platform that brings business focus to the BI development process and automates the arduous task of giving all data a consistent business meaning — what Gartner calls semantic reconciliation. This process leads to more trusted and widely-adopted BI investments with lower ongoing support costs.
For more information visit www.balancedinsight.com