Pentaho Exit and End Of Life
Just got this from the sales team incase anyone was planning an upgrade or migration. The fire sale of Pentaho to Constellation is completed with 130 staff laid off this week leaving barely any product engineering or customer support.
After an extensive strategic review, Pentaho are pleased to announce that all of our products have officially entered the phase that industry analysts have predicted for years:
END OF LIFE
As customers modernise their data platforms with faster, more capable and AI-native technologies, our role is no longer to persuade them to stay—it is to help them leave gracefully.
Accordingly, our mission has evolved.
We are no longer in the business of selling software.
We are now in the business of ensuring our remaining customers complete the fastest, lowest-risk migration possible.
We therefore recommend that customers evaluate modern open platforms including:
\* Argo
\* Apache Airflow
\* Flyte
\* Dagster
We sincerely thank everyone who helped build a product that outlived several generations of enterprise architecture diagrams.
THE AI ERA
The economics of migration have fundamentally changed.
Modern AI-assisted engineering tools can analyse legacy PDI transformations, explain decades-old business logic, generate equivalent pipelines, create documentation, produce automated test suites and accelerate migration projects that previously required months of specialist consultancy.
Whether your destination is Apache Hop, Apache Airflow, Dagster, Argo or another contemporary platform, AI is dramatically reducing both the cost and risk of modernisation.
For the first time in our industry's history, customers are no longer locked into legacy technology because migration is prohibitively expensive.
The future belongs to organisations that can evolve quickly.
Looking back, perhaps our greatest contribution wasn't simply building software that served customers faithfully for decades.
It was remaining available long enough for artificial intelligence to make saying goodbye faster, cheaper and considerably less painful.