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 | Aug 7, 2014 | Main Blog, Uncategorized
Big data is a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot. There are oodles of different definitions out there, and the term gets applied to a range of data from digital sources to more traditional forms. Yet, at its core big data is essentially any large data set that can...
by Zachary Zeus | Jul 28, 2014 | Case Studies, Main Blog
Today I had to pick up from a developer who had left my team 3 months ago. This can be a challenge for any group or organisation, but it’s particularly challenging when the development uses new or experimental technology. In my case, I wanted to work on a Hadoop...
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...
