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LucidDB has a new Logo/Mascot

Nicholas Goodman - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:53

At yesterdays Eigenbase Developer Meetup at SQLstream’s offices in San Francisco we arrived at a new logo for LucidDB. DynamoBI is thrilled to have supported and funded the design contest to arrive at our new mascot. Over the coming months you’ll see the logo make it’s way out to the existing luciddb.org sites, wiki sites, etc. I’m really happy to have a logo that matches the nature of our database - BAD ASS!

Q&A: Pair Appliances and Virtualization to Beef Up Performance

TDWI - Wed, 08/25/2010 - 07:00

Data warehouse appliances and virtualization make logical partners for companies interested in cost-effective solutions to handling massive amounts of data across devices.

Agile Meets Integration at TDWI Conference

TDWI - Wed, 08/25/2010 - 07:00

At last week's TDWI Summer World Conference in San Diego, bottom-up disruption -- of an agile kind -- was a salient theme.

Survey Explores Performance Management in Practice

TDWI - Wed, 08/25/2010 - 07:00

A new survey examines how over 200 organizations use performance management to improve revenue performance, forecast-to-plan ratio, and customer satisfaction.

Pentaho Architect's Bootcamp Training Now Available

Gretche Moran - Fri, 08/20/2010 - 13:26

Last week, I had the pleasure of offering our very first 5-day session of the Pentaho Architect's Bootcamp training, and overall, it was a big success!

There comes a point in many advanced deployments of the Pentaho BI Suite where some feature or requirement pushes the boundaries of the out-of-the-box product capabilities. Since the beginning of Pentaho time, we've marched to the beat of "make it possible first, then make it pretty/easy", and it's this scenario where our approach pays big dividends to our customers/community/users. Because the platform/server/tools were built for extensibility, there are numerous places where you can roll up your sleeves and leverage a simple API to implement a customization that suits your specific requirements.

The Pentaho Architect's Bootcamp is geared for developers, partners, customers, consultants that are ready to roll up their sleeves and understand the complex problems that are surfacing in large scale BI implementations, and how to extend the Pentaho suite of products to answer far more questions and customizations than the boundaries of the out-of-the-box product.

Here's a sampling of some of the questions that are answered during Architect Bootcamp training:

How do I integrate my own custom visualizations (maps, charts, gauges, etc) into Pentaho?
How do I accommodate multiple companies/groups/organizations' data in my solutions, while maintaining each companies/groups/organizations' personal point of view of the data?
How do I dynamically drive row level security in Pentaho Analysis and Pentaho Metadata?
How do I integrate Pentaho solution content into my own application?
How do I customize security across the Pentaho platform and pillars?
How do I create integrated solutions using ETL, reporting, analysis and metadata to deliver my customer's specific solutions?
How do I plug my custom content into the Pentaho BI Server? How do I then integrate my custom data/functionality with the Pentaho pillars (ETL, reporting, analysis, metadata, etc)?

I really believe this course is a game-changer for Pentaho users and solution developers. I teach the course, so don't take just my word for it. Here's some feedback we received from the first course offering:

"We traveled from India to Florida for this course, and we are extremely glad that we did. The information is very valuable."

"The presentation was excellent, [I e]specially liked the interactive nature of the class."

"All of the lessons uncovered new boundaries; all topics had more priority!"

"YEEEEAAAA.. just built my first Pentaho BI Server plugin... Pentaho Architect's Bootcamp RULES!!! #Pentaho @Pentaho"

"Day 4 Pentaho Architect's Bootcamp brought so many excitements, I loved it. even though my brain feels like it's going to explode!! #Pentaho"

Talend Enhances Data Integration with MapReduce Support

TDWI - Wed, 08/18/2010 - 07:00

MapReduce is usually thought of as an enabling technology for Big Data analytics. Talend says it can help supercharge data integration, too.

The Analytics of Web Data

TDWI - Wed, 08/18/2010 - 07:00

New information sources demand improved analytics to learn more about customer behavior, employee and supplier relationships, competitors, and the market.

Under the Hood of Oracle's Revamped BI Suite

TDWI - Wed, 08/18/2010 - 07:00

Does Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g "close the loop?"

What's Essential -- And What's Not -- In Big Data Analytics

TDWI - Wed, 08/18/2010 - 07:00

When it comes to analytics, the columnar database debate misses the point.

JSON / Portugal

Matt Casters - Sat, 08/07/2010 - 21:09

Hello Kettle people!

It’s been a while since my last blog but I since there is always so much to tell you about Kettle, it’s high time to pick up the pace again.

This time I want to inform you that Kettle developer superstar Samatar informed me that he’s working on JSON steps as par of JIRA case PDI-3323 (input/output).

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Let’s hope the input step arrives in time to test Aaron’s (phytodata) REST/JSON web services on the BI server 3.7.

I’m also happy to inform you that Samatar will be joining us in Portugal for Pentaho’s yearly Community Meeting, September 25-26. And, just to make sure you’ll recognize us there I’m posting a goofy picture of the both of us.