Last week, Hitachi Vantara released the latest version of their data integration, orchestration, and business analytics platform, Pentaho. Pentaho 8.2 Enterprise Edition delivers multiple improvements and new features, from enhanced cloud data security to more...
Hitachi Vantara has announced Pentaho v8.2. Great to see it seamlessly integrates structured & unstructured data across the Hitachi Vantara portfolio and the entire ecosystem that our customers have. A few features I like about this release: Unstructured Data...
It is high time that organisations minimise risks associated with offline data-driven processes. Many people still download data onto their PC, laptop, or other offline location in order to analyse it (usually in Excel). Even in enterprise environments where all...
Why do some organisations successfully outcompete, while others struggle? How do some leaders get more out of their people than others? What patterns do successful leaders put in place? In this article, I will use the concepts of beat, rhythm, music and ovation to...
Our Virtual World We live in an increasingly virtual world. All functions that can be outsourced have been outsourced or are rapidly moving towards being outsourced. The ‘gig economy’ is well and truly here, and it is making an impact. This virtual world affects...
When you have worked in the analytics industry for as long as I have (a wonderful, intense, frustrating and ultimately rewarding 25 years) then not only do you begin to see it as a form of vocation, but you also start to see patterns emerging out of the daily...
Pentaho Enterprise and Community Editions offer the Scheduling tool to enable jobs to be set to run at certain times on a repeatable basis. At the moment, while the schedule is viewable, there is no built-in method for extracting the schedules for reporting or...
I have been working in analytics for over 20 years now. One of the most frustrating things I have seen over this period is the relentless pursuit of and excessive focus on executive dashboards. Please don’t get me wrong, they play a role in business. A concise and...
I have had the pleasure (and the ensuing pain) of working in the Analytics field for more than 20 years now. I have worked at both ends of the spectrum. I have been involved in small-scale departmental analytics projects involving a few analysts. I have also been...
Spoon needs the JNDI connection defined somewhere it knows about
