SQL Power Announces Partnership with Pentaho Corporation

Toronto, February 19th, 2007: SQL Power Group Inc. (www.sqlpower.ca), the Canadian authority on Data Warehousing, Performance Measurement and Business Intelligence, announced today that they have signed a "Certified Partner Agreement" with Pentaho Corporation (the leader in Open Source BI - www.pentaho.com).

Pentaho Corporation sponsors the world's most popular Open Source Business Intelligence project, with over 2 million downloads of their BI software over the past few years. A lower cost alternative to traditional commercial BI software (sold by Informatica, Cognos, Business Objects, etc.), Pentaho offers free downloads of open source ETL, OLAP, BI reporting and Data Mining tools.

The Pentaho BI Suite supplements SQL Power's own Data Warehousing (DW) productivity tools (which include a DW Designer tool, a Data De-duping tool and an Executive Dashboard tool), offering SQL Power clients the widest range of BI productivity tools in Canada.

SQL Power has built a very successful Data Warehousing consulting practice by minimizing BI software license fees for their clients - choosing to utilize available BI funds on consulting, support and training instead, thus delivering a far more extensive BI solution for their clients for a fraction of the price.

"Our partnership with Pentaho will ensure that we continue to provide the best and most affordable BI tools to our valued clients, and it also allows us to expand this BI Suite to include BI Reporting, Google-maps Dashboards, OLAP and Data Mining functionality. SQL Power is very proud to have been chosen as the first Certified Solution and Training Provider for Pentaho in Canada and we look forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Pentaho," said Sam Selim, president of SQL Power.

Established in 1988 and privately held, SQL Power is a leading Canadian software consulting firm specializing in Data Migration, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.