UPDATED 11:49 EDT / OCTOBER 15 2015

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Unlocking the value of Big Data for IoT | #pworld15

As Big Data technology continues to evolve, so does the discussion around it, as is the case at this year’s PentahoWorld.

“It’s really all about the business advantages, which is very different from last year when it was about the technology,” said Quentin Gallivan, CEO of Pentaho Corp. Gallivan joined theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss the focus of this year’s PentahoWorld, the evolution of Big Data, and how Pentaho benefits from its recent acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (Hitachi, Ltd.)

Blending unstructured and structured data

Speaking with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and George Gilbert at the Renaissance Orlando SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, Gallivan said that Pentaho has focused on the same two themes for 11 years: First that commercial open source is the way to innovate faster, and second that data from all sources must be blended and analyzed.

Although the focus of Pentaho has not changed, Big Data has changed, with companies now seeing the need not just to store data in Hadoop, but to blend the unstructured data with structural, relational data for analysis. Gullivan sees this ability to blend data as Pentaho’s competitive advantage.

IoT is a whole different game

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought companies traditionally associated with marketing into the Big Data field, with communication no longer person to person, but person to device, or even device to device.

Gullivan sees the emergence of cloud as a deployment model for Big Data as important. He sees a major use case for the IoT for manufacturing companies monitoring the health of devices on the factory floor so that they can predict failures and replace or repair a device preemptively.

The benefits of acquisition by Hitachi

Asked how he sees Pentaho’s recent acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems benefiting the company, Gullivan described a number of scenarios, including the benefits of Hitachi’s status as a multinational corporation with both IT and manufacturing sides, easier sales and deployment access to large enterprises, and R&D assistance from the 500 data scientists employed by Hitachi.

A commercial open-source, end-to-end platform

Gullivan is committed to staying true to Pentaho’s open-source heritage, allowing companies like Hitachi to build on its extensible, API-oriented platform. Hitachi has already built Big Data analytics systems for huge clients on top of Pentaho, said Gullivan, who gave the following statistic: 40 percent of Pentaho’s revenue comes from apps built by partners on top of Pentaho.

Pentaho takes Big Data to the next stage

“We want to be the heat shield for our customers around new technologies,” said Gullivan, adding that Pentaho is very focused on keeping pace with innovation, but also on adding value for its customers.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of PentahoWorld 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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