Careflight deploys Pentaho

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....

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Data Scientists, 21st Century Oil and Unicorns

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...

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Webinar on LDAP Configuration in Pentaho 5

Watch our webinar on LDAP Configuration in Pentaho 5Today we're going to look at configuring the Pentaho business analytics integration server at LDAP. To do this, we're starting off with a vanilla build of Pentaho business analytics and the data integration...

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Big changes on the 2014 BI Gartner Magic Quadrant

A couple of weeks ago, Gartner launched the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. They evaluated 27 products and defined BI and analytics as a software platform that delivers 17 capabilities across three categories: information...

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Predictions for Big Data in 2014

Pentaho’s CEO, Quentin Gallivan, has recently published his four predictions for Big Data in 2014. Below is a summary of those predictions, and my thoughts about how these predictions might apply in our region. 1. Business Analytics will be driven by users’ demand...