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
Big Data is a big deal in enterprise, and for good reason. If harnessed entirely and leveraged, it has the potential to change the fate of an organisation. Enter the Internet Of Things (IoT) and the data just got bigger, and that too, by a lot. And it is not just...
With the recent news that LeBron James is going to make $208M (I have converted to AUD) - and the FIFA World Cup just wrapping up (I can finally sleep again), I have been thinking about a podcast by one of my favourite authors, Malcolm Gladwell – “My Little $100M”....
The Pentaho 8.1 Enterprise Edition was released a few months ago. It delivers a wide range of features and improvements, including; Improved Streaming Steps in PDI, Increased Spark Capabilities in PDI, Enhancements to Google Cloud Data, Increased AWS Security....
At BizCubed, we are proud to be a Hitachi partner organisation. And a key reason is, Hitachi has remained committed and consistent to interoperability of data processing and analytics across complex data ecosystems; a core cause we are also driving. Through the...
