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...
Big data is a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot. There are oodles of different definitions out there, and the term gets applied to a range of data from digital sources to more traditional forms. Yet, at its core big data is essentially any large data set that...
Today I had to pick up from a developer who had left my team 3 months ago. This can be a challenge for any group or organisation, but it's particularly challenging when the development uses new or experimental technology. In my case, I wanted to work on a Hadoop...
ETL (“extract, transform, and load”) is an essential, yet inevitably complicated process when performed using the traditional method, aka using Excel. Many data analysts are, of course, accustomed to using Excel and have been trained over the years to utilise all...
Approximately 20-40% of all spreadsheets contain errors(1), and there’s no easy way to estimate how significant those errors are, and how much it’s affecting your ability to make decisions. Microsoft Excel is an indispensable tool for the financial analyst ever...
