by Zachary Zeus | May 29, 2017 | Analytics at Operational Scale, How To, Main Blog, Pentaho, Resources
Data preparation is the foundation of any analytics project, but it has become more complex than ever as organizations struggle to handle new, messy data types and growing data volumes. Teams that want to build competitive advantage through analytic insight must...
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...
by Zachary Zeus | Apr 21, 2017 | Analytics at Operational Scale, Case Studies, Main Blog, Resources, Retail Zoo
“Our services partnership with BizCubed and software from Pentaho has helped us give our franchisees the ability to ask more questions about their own businesses, and has provided them with tools to make real time and better retail business decisions for their...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 10, 2017 | How To, Main Blog, Resources
Pentaho offers a step that handles the process of connecting to an SFTP server and putting and getting files, and (as always) orchestrating the steps leading up to and after the file transfer. The step relies on the Java implementation of the SSH2 connectors done by...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 4, 2017 | How To, Main Blog, Resources
As a programmer (and the lonely Windows hold-out at Bizcubed), I have a strong habit of hitting ctrl+s to save whatever I am working on, early and often. As a wobbly typist, I also have a tendency to sometimes clip the wrong key. So what’s next to the...
