How is Pentaho’s data-ingesting platform pushing parent company Hitachi Ltd.’s long-term goals for business intelligence at the edge, where the “internet of things” resides?

Looking to answer this question and others, SiliconANGLE is at PentahoWorld 2017, currently underway in Orlando, Florida, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.) 

Acquired by Hitachi in 2015 and rebranded Hitachi Vantara, business intelligence software company Pentaho Corp. is “a fundamental part of Hitachi’s overall strategy,” according to Dave Vellante, co-founder and chief analyst at Wikibon Research (Wikibon is owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE). 

“As an industrial giant, Hitachi thinks long term. Its U.S. data systems division has been a big storage provider, but this business is declining. Instead of competing with Dell EMC and Amazon in the storage market, they’re going for the ultimate win in IoT and analytics,” Vellante said. “Their storage efforts are being re-branded, bringing analytics to the edge of the network where [the internet of things] lives.”

Following the formation of Hitachi Vantara, the company announced its partnership with British Telecommunications PLC to develop enterprise and industrial-based internet of things products. “Companies are transforming into new business models and doing things significantly different to grow into the future. [The internet of things] is an enabler of that,” said Chuck Yarbrough, vice president of solutions marketing and management at Pentaho.

Keynote speakers at PentahoWorld 2017 include Hitachi Vantara executives Mark Hall, senior data mining consultant; Matt Casters, data integration architect; Donna Prlich, chief product officer; Anthony de Shazor, senior vice president of customer care; and Pedro Alves, senior vice president of community.

Other keynote speakers at the event include Tom Scurlock, director of worldwide alliances at MapR Technologies Inc.; Sachin Batra, senior management of information architecture at Universal Service Administrative Co.; Allaa Hilal, director of innovation at Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc.; Derek Mathieson, group leader of the administrative information systems group at CERN; and Henry Liebrenz, police sergeant for the German Federal Police.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at PentahoWorld, including theCUBE.net and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s event on SiliconANGLE.

SiliconANGLE TV

All of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews from PentahoWorld will be available on the dedicated theCUBE.net page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from PentahoWorld, which runs until Oct. 27, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Thursday, Oct. 26

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include PentahoWorld keynote speakers Sachin Batra, Allaa Hilal and Henry Liebrenz.

Other guests include Brian Householder, president and chief operating officer at Hitachi Vantara; Brendan Aldrich, chief data officer at Ivy Tech Community College; Michael Becker, senior chief inspector for the German Federal Police; and Stefano Celati, Pentaho solutions consultant at BNova Consulting.

Thursday’s lineup also includes Tom Nesbitt, senior manager of systems and data analytics at USAC; Reni Waegelein, chief information officer of Veikkaus Oy; Geo Thomas, director of information technology at Benefit Science Technologies; and Charles Gaddy, international software and business professional.

Friday, Oct 27

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include PentahoWorld keynote speakers Donna Prlich and Derek Mathieson.

Other guests include Robert Walsh, technical director of enterprise business intelligence at ZeniMax Media Inc.; Jan Janke, GS-AIS deputy group leader at CERN; Maik Hering, product manager at STIWA Group; and Don DeLoach, co-chair of the Midwest Internet of Things Council.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

Image: Pentaho Corp.