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Data Preparation with Limited IT Resources

I speak to a lot of customers that are all facing the same issue – they have a limited IT staff, they have a shrinking budget, they are using legacy tools to manage their growing data needs and they just don’t have enough time to accomplish it all. We have all...

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Family Owned Analytics

BizCubed has had the good fortune to work with the some iconic family owned and driven organisations.  From Teys Brothers to DeBortoli Wines to Boost Juice.  I was sitting down with the team from another family owned company and the work that we had done with...

CTools Tips and Tricks

The CTools are a set of community-driven tools which are installed as a stack on top of the Pentaho BA server. They extend the Pentaho platform capabilities by providing a framework for more flexible development. This blog covers few tips and trick for developing CCC (Community Charting Components) and using the CGG (Community Graphics Generator).

Setting up a Pentaho server as a Windows service

Download the 64-bit version of Apache Tomcat that matches the Apache Tomcat version that was bundled with the PDI Server In the downloaded Tomcat zip file, copy the tomcat\bin\tomcat6.exe and tomcat\bin\tomcat6w.exe into the data-integration-server\tomcat\bin...

PCM 16

9th annual PCM in Europe. Bart from Know.bi opens proceedings - talking about the history of PCM.  50+ at the hackathon last night, 200+ registrations. Pedro Alves on Pentaho 7.0 Pentaho 7.0 is officially going to be released on Tuesday, but is now available on the...

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Pentaho acquired by HDS

Pentaho acquired by HDS - what it means for Australia and New Zealand A couple of days ago, Pentaho got acquired by Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) for a reported cool half a billion bucks. This valuation reflects the success of Pentaho in the analytics and big data...