by Andrew Cave | Aug 6, 2018 | Analytics Products, How To, News, Troubleshooting
The Pentaho ETL tools are really powerful, flexible and useful. However, being so complex they are prone to sometimes throwing errors that aren’t that easy to interpret. To assist others with this, I’m posting some of these error strings and how I managed...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 4, 2018 | Analytics at Operational Scale, Analytics Products, Data Engineer, How To, Main Blog
The Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) server is a production level application for storing, scheduling, creating and running all the Pentaho report types through your web-browser. But sometimes, you need to work on the commandline and put things precisely where you want...
by Andrew Cave | Jan 24, 2018 | Analytics Products, How To, Pentaho
Spoon: variable substitution in string A in the Calculator step This post is going to look at using the Calculator step to do variable or parameter interpolation into a string. In other words, we can use the Calculator step to do variable substitution instead of...
by Zachary Zeus | Mar 6, 2017 | Analytics Products, How To, Main Blog, Resources
The CTools are a set of community-driven tools which are installed as a stack on top of the Pentaho BA server. They extend the Pentaho platform capabilities by providing a framework for more flexible development. This blog covers few tips and trick for developing CCC...
by Zachary Zeus | Dec 17, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process, Fun and Interesting, Main Blog, Uncategorized
It’s a well known fact IT people in particular obsess about where they are storing their data. We read benchmarks and other performance measures to see what’s up, whether our Database is still cutting the mustard or we should think about (sigh) moving on...
by Zachary Zeus | Dec 2, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process
ISO 55000 defines Asset management as the “coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets”. WikipediaIn a recent commentary by David Norris of Bloor Research, he explored the subject of data asset management, it’s critical...
