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 | Sep 8, 2017 | BizCubed, Case Studies, How To, Main Blog, Pentaho
We have a firmly held belief that when you increase the number of staff members that participate in analytics – you significantly improve the value of your data assets. When your organisation has high value data assets your business is more efficient, more agile, and...
by Zachary Zeus | Aug 31, 2017 | Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Life Cycle, Data Scientist, How To, Main Blog
From Analyst, to Scientist, to Engineer A common problem we see is that different roles are using different methods of preparing and reporting data. What occurs is that there is very little collaboration between key data driven roles within the organisations that we...
by Andrew Cave | Aug 26, 2017 | How To, Pentaho
The week before last I delivered the Pentaho DI1000 training to a group to our North Sydney office and I got asked a question that (it turned out) had an easy answer. And as with a lot of things, I hadn’t read it, somebody had told me. The question was: When...
by Zachary Zeus | Jul 31, 2017 | BizCubed, How To, Main Blog
In her latest contribution to Computer Business Review, Pentaho CMO Rosanne Saccone reflects on the book, “Do Lunch or Be Lunch,” by Harvard Business School faculty member Howard H. Stevenson. As she points out, while Stevenson’s book itself may be a bit dated, the...