by Zachary Zeus | Feb 6, 2019 | Business Intelligence Process
I have observed that in most organisations there is a clear delineation between teams which manage data lakes or warehouses and teams which analyse data. The specialists who build BI assets such as reports, dashboards, and cubes will be separated from the engineers...
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”. Wikipedia In a recent commentary by David Norris of Bloor Research, he explored the subject of data asset management, it’s critical...
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...
