Hitachi Vantara Delivers more Valuable Data Insights with Pentaho 8.2

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd, announced Pentaho 8.2, the newest release of the company’s data integration and analytics platform software, providing new, out-of-the-box integration with Hitachi’s industry-leading object storage platform, Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).

The Pentaho 8.2 better integrates Hitachi Vantara’s portfolio of products and enables users to address key industry use cases with access to unstructured data from HCP. This release also enables customers to manage a hybrid cloud environment in new ways and expands support for the analytic ecosystem.

According to Harvard Business Review, less than half of an organization’s structured data is used in making business decisions, and less than 1 percent of unstructured data is used in any way at all. With Pentaho’s new integration with HCP, users can now build data pipelines that include structured and unstructured data sources – such as text, video, audio, images, social media, clickstreams and log files – allowing data analysts and data scientists to generate better insights that drive more business value. Pentaho 8.2 opens new industry use cases in areas such as:

Banking: Financial services institutions can address compliance requirements by correlating trading transaction data with email communications.  

Healthcare: Medical researchers can make new drug discoveries by blending patient data and medication history with unstructured MRI scans.

Retail: Retailers can analyze the shopping preferences of each guest and the traffic flow of each in-store brand by combining in-store video footage with point-of-sale data.

Public Safety: Law enforcement can combine video footage with crime reports, enabling faster access to evidence and improved decision-making while staying compliant with regulations.