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...

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The Innovative CIO’s Analytics strategy

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...

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Build a Streamlined Data Refinery

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...