Pentaho Corporation open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced that Power Costs, Inc., (PCI) the leading global provider of energy supply management software has successfully deployed the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition integrated with QlikView at three energy companies. The joint solution allows Power Costs' customers to mine massive amounts of data quickly to help improve their Day Ahead and Real-Time operational Profit and Loss (P&L).

Power Costs provides asset optimization solutions to many of the leading power generation and trading companies in the world. The PCI GSMS (Generation Supply Management System) generates 5-10 GB of data a month for each customer which is critical to monitoring their P&L. Prior to using the Pentaho and QlikView business Intelligence solution, Power Costs found it difficult to analyze the large amounts of data and quickly respond to user needs of ad-hoc vertical and horizontal data drilling to find root causes of P&L leakage....