by Zachary Zeus | Sep 29, 2014 | Analytics Products, Fun and Interesting, How To
Integrating to Xero.com from Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) One of the things I love about Pentaho is its great data management tool PDI, or ‘Kettle’ as it’s known. Pentaho can load in and write out over 100 different data sources. It’s the...
by Zachary Zeus | Sep 9, 2014 | Analytics Products, Main Blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Zachary Zeus | Aug 18, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process, How To, Main Blog
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...
by Zachary Zeus | Aug 13, 2014 | Analytics Products, Business Intelligence Process, Main Blog, Resources
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...
by Zachary Zeus | Jul 22, 2014 | Analytics Products, Main Blog
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 the...
by Zachary Zeus | Feb 28, 2014 | Analytics Products, Main Blog
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 for...
