It's a well known fact IT people in particular obsess about where they are storing their data. We read benchmarks and other performance measures to see what's up, whether our Database is still cutting the mustard or we should think about (sigh) moving on and...
ISO 55000 defines Asset management as the "coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets". WikipediaIn a recent commentary by David Norris of Bloor Research, he explored the subject of data asset management, it's critical nature and the lack...
The value of a long-term strategy in analytics, reporting and BI. We have been working with many of our clients for many years on their analytics solutions. In a lot of cases, the early projects were POCs and departmental solutions. However, with these long-term...
With the surge of data over the last few years, it has been a complex task for many businesses to get real value from Big Data. Simple batch reporting isn’t up to scratch anymore – consumers want easy to understand visual analytics, in their favourite on-demand...
BizCubed is excited to announce it has won the Pentaho Partner of the Year for APAC at Pentaho World 2014. We were really excited to be part of the first Pentaho World conference. This was the first time customers, partners, and users got together with Pentaho....
Integrating to Xero.com from Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) One of the things I love about Pentaho is its great data management tool PDI, or 'Kettle' as it's known. Pentaho can load in and write out over 100 different data sources. It's the ultimate tool for data...
1. Being captain of your ship. Owning your future. Having been around in IT for 30+ years as a software developer, consultant and business owner, I've bet the farm a few times on various vendor 'stacks'. Eventually I came to realise it's best to be future proof and...
As an analytics platform provider, we frequently get the following requests from potential clients who are looking "BI" solutions: Common Analytics Requests: Our current system comes with reporting and anlaytics. Can you plug into that? What we need is a data...
With the Pentaho 5.1 release there was a really exciting innovation - analytics directly against a Mongo DB cluster. Mongo on Pentaho is exciting because it means that you can do advanced data discovery against Mongo collections directly. Better Together Setting...
We saw recently saw this article “9 Common BI Software Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)" from Jennifer Lonoff Schiff at ComputerWorld.com. As we reviewed the common mistakes, we felt that the Pentaho analytics platform addresses them all pretty well. So we...
