BI is not only about business anymore, so why are we still calling it “Business Intelligence”?
The folks at Analytical Labs have released Saiku 2.0 GA!
Overview of the May 3rd 2011 North Carolina Pentaho User Group Meeting.
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Apr
Book Review: Pentaho Kettle Solutions
By Alex | Filed in Book Review, Open Source Rocks, PentahoPentaho Kettle Solutions picks up where Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner’s Guide leaves off. For ETL developers who want to have an in-depth reference to many of the more advanced features of one the leading open source data integration packages, then this is the book to read. The book focuses on the 34 ETL subsystems [… Read More]
Saiku, the cool open source OLAP tool is now available as a plugin for the Pentaho BI Server. The developers need to test the code out – so go grab a copy and spin it up in a test environment. This is a great partial (soon to be full) replacement for the default JPivot in [… Read More]
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Jan
Pentaho Data Integration (a.k.a. Kettle) and Database Sharding
By Alex | Filed in Open Source Rocks, Pentaho, Pentaho, Tutorials, UncategorizedSo I recently had a situation where I needed to run the same transformation over multiple database shards, which turns out to be relatively easy to do with the right mix of transformations and jobs. This post will walk through the steps needed so you can do the same thing. Go ahead and download the [… Read More]
22
Sep
Pentaho Solutions: A Needed Resource With Potential for More To Come
By Alex | Filed in Book Review, Open Source Rocks, PentahoI recently received my pre-ordered copy of Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL (linky (amazon.com)) and felt it needed to be the first official BlueFireDS Book Review. It is the first resource available from a third-party about the excellent BI suite Pentaho (pentaho.com). If you have not worked with Pentaho [… Read More]
- Hi Alex, Thanks for the review and the feedback, much appreciated! re. the 'whoopsies': same here; just CC me for any ...
- Hi! Thanks you for the review, we appreciate it a lot! I'd be happy to add some readmes to the site ...
So recently I posted about how symfony has made the move to officially support Doctrine as the default ORM in future releases of my favorite PHP framework. A lot of questions were raised, mainly because even though Propel is still going to be supported by symfony, it looked like Propel was dead in the water [… Read More]
- /bow to Francois!!!
Well, as posted yesterday on the symfony blog Doctrine will now be the defacto standard for symfony’s ORM. To be honest, I’m not surprised at all with this move – it makes sense seeing that the Doctrine team are on board at Sensio. Sensio Labs was looking for something that fit with their overall strategy [… Read More]
I’m noticing that quite a few folks are posting about how MySQL is going to die a slow and painful death now that Sun has been purchased by Oracle. As I commented on one site – I have to politely disagree. The MySQL franchise may very well go away or be rebranded (which I think [… Read More]
