by Zachary Zeus | Jul 20, 2017 | BizCubed, How To, Main Blog, Pentaho, Resources
What is the “Filling the Data Lake” blueprint? The blueprint for filling the data lake refers to a modern data onboarding process for ingesting big data into Hadoop data lakes that is flexible, scalable, and repeatable. It streamlines data ingestion from...
by Zachary Zeus | Jun 27, 2017 | BizCubed, Case Studies, Main Blog, Westfield
Recently Pentaho announced the release of Pentaho 7.1. Don’t let the point release numbering make you think this is a small release. This is one of the most significant releases of Pentaho Data Integration! With the introduction of the Adaptive Execution Layer (AEL)...
by Zachary Zeus | Jun 27, 2017 | BizCubed, Case Studies, DeBortoli Wines, Main Blog
About De Bortoli Wines De Bortoli Wines is a third generation family wine company established by Vittorio and Giuseppina De Bortoli in 1928. The couple immigrated to Australia from Northern Italy, and created a winery with a foundation rooted in hard work, generosity...
by Zachary Zeus | Jun 14, 2017 | Analytics at Operational Scale, BizCubed, Main Blog, Pentaho, Resources
There is a growing trend wherein business analysts have more control than ever to prepare and analyze a variety of valuable data, often circumventing IT processes and policies. What are IT leaders to do? Can they liberate data to be used by analysts, yet provide...
by Zachary Zeus | May 11, 2017 | Analytics at Operational Scale, Main Blog, Resources
I speak to a lot of customers that are all facing the same issue – they have a limited IT staff, they have a shrinking budget, they are using legacy tools to manage their growing data needs and they just don’t have enough time to accomplish it all. We have all heard...
by Zachary Zeus | May 11, 2017 | Analytics at Operational Scale, Main Blog, Resources
If you are in an IT role responding to data prep needs from the business, you have likely seen some variation of an analyst emerge at your company. Viewed as the most plausible answer to a shortage of Ph.D. data scientists, analysts work with data but may not have a...
