by Andrew Cave | Mar 26, 2025 | BizCubed, Data Engineer, Data Engineering, Main Blog, Pentaho
With the release of Pentaho 10, changes have been made to licensing options, impacting what is allowed and how the license is verified, and introducing new paid licensing levels. Pentaho has always offered a “community” version. This came with...
by Andrew Cave | Oct 11, 2023 | BizCubed, Data Engineering, Security, Thought Piece
Human error poses a significant risk to cybersecurity. One IBM study traced 95% of breaches back to mistakes made by individuals. Whether it’s sharing sensitive information via insecure channels, falling for phishing emails, or neglecting software updates, such...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 20, 2020 | Data Engineering, Fun and Interesting, How To, Pentaho
This is part 2 of the post about using a Pentaho CTools Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) form to send data to a Pentaho transformation (see Part 1) . This means that we can use a CDE form to allow users to put data into the Pentaho system and it can be used for...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 14, 2020 | Data Engineering
This is a Part 1 of a simple tutorial for using a Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) form in the Pentaho BA server to end data and pass it to a Pentaho transformation for storage/processing. See Part 2 for building the back-end handler First create a New CDE Dashboard...
by Andrew Cave | Jul 23, 2019 | How To, Pentaho, Resources, Training
A common technique to restrict access in Pentaho Report Designer is use the variable ‘${env::username}’ in queries. This is replaced with the currently logged in username on the server and allows group memberships/rows access to be identified at the...