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...
CareFlight is an Australian aeromedical retrieval service who provides medical transport for the severely injured and those who need emergency treatment at the scene of the incident. Careflight transports over 5,000 patients a year across remote parts of Australia....
Data Scientists In October 2012, The Harvard Business Review announced that the “Data Scientist role is the Sexiest Role of the 21st century”(1). This bold, and probably intentionally provocative, statement got them lots of attention. The title “data scientist” has...
Pentaho's Data Integration tool helps make the most of your Salesforce data and here’s why. Every time you implement a new cloud based system - you have to figure out the API to determine how you're going to integrate that data with the rest of the your business...
