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BizCubed sponsors Government 2.0 event

julia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:42:01 +0000

BizCubed is proud to announce it is sponsoring the “Public Sphere 2: Government 2.0” event in Canberra on June 22nd.

Government 2.0 is about using online and web tools to help drive information to people that can make better use of it.

As the leading provider of open tools for the collection and dissemination of information BizCubed is proud to be part of this event. We will be giving a talk on “Open Tools for Open Government”.

This event is going to be available live on the internet and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion online. All information for how to get involved in this digital engagement experiment is available from the Public Sphere website:

http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/05/29/public-sphere-2-open-government-policy-and-practice/

During this event there will be a “Government 2.0” initiative announced by Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation.

BizCubed is the Australian Gold Reseller of the Pentaho BI suite. BizCubed offers professional support, training, and services helping businesses and government get the highest value out of the data that they collect and distribute. Pentaho is an open source data collection, reporting and analysis tool.

For Further Information, contact BizCubed at:

Web: bizcubed.com.au
Phone: +61 2 9007 9887

The Continuation of the Unmatched Power and Flexibility of Pentaho (michaeltarallo.blogspot.com)

sridhar — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:12:06 +0000

This article shows another example of how easily Pentaho can be integrated with other components and frameworks, using the Chronoscope integration pioneered at BizCubed.

“I have chosen to represent large amounts of data over time by integrating the LGPL 2.1 Chronoscope Timepedia widget into the Pentaho BI Platform. I created a reusable, customizable component that can be easily added to Pentaho Dashboards by non-technical users. This dynamic widget can visually represent metrics over large periods of time in an interactive, browser only, Time Series Line Graph.”

Open Source Business Intelligence Scores Another Channel Win (The VAR Guy)

julia — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:11:42 +0000

Some thoughts by The VAR Guy on the latest OpenBI project which involved The Swiss Colony, a mail-order catalog and online merchandising company.

Forgive The VAR Guy if he sounds like Yogi Berra today, but our resident blogger has deja vu all over again. The reason: The folks at OpenBI, a systems integrator in Chicago, have scored yet another win promoting Pentaho’s open source business intelligence software to customers.

PDI 3.2.0 went stable (Matt Casters)

julia — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:11:34 +0000

Dear Kettle friends,

Because there were so many people wondering what GA or even “Generally Available” meant, we renamed the thing to “Stable”. So the stable production ready version of Pentaho data integration 3.2.0 now is called 3.2.0-stable.

PDI Scale Out Whitepaper (Goodman on BI)

julia — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:11:20 +0000

Michael Goodman shares some thoughts on how PDI scales out.
“Key questions when evaluating a scale out ETL tool: Does it scale with more nodes? Does it scale with more data?”

Pentaho: “Guided Ad hoc” , “Structured Ad hoc” , Parameterized Reporting…which one already! (michaeltarallo.blogspot.com)

julia — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:09:43 +0000

This blog entry is an introduction to a video which highlights the fundamentals of creating a Pentaho “Guided Ad hoc”, “Structured Ad hoc” or parameterized report using the Pentaho Report Designer and Pentaho Design Studio.

Newsletter for June 2009

julia — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:07:57 +0000

The BizCubed Newsletter for June 2009 is out. Main topics: BizCubed became Pentaho Partner Of The Year 2008, Dynamic Reporting, improvement of the knowledge base and more. Read our new section “Meet the team” to learn more about people at BizCubed.

Newsletter for March 2009

julia — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:24:36 +0000

The BizCubed Newsletter for March 2009 is out. The main topics are: BizCubed became Pentaho Gold Partner, schedule of Pentaho training sessions, Pentaho Version 3.0 and more.

Proprietary BI - Is it really worth it? (michaeltarallo.blogspot.com)

julia — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:19:11 +0000

A business looking for BI should always consider the alternatives when evaluating a Business Intelligence solution. From my experience, I have found that Open Source BI, including Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence, offers what you would expect from a proprietary BI vendor. I can say this with much conviction and confidence because I worked for a proprietary BI vendor for 9 years, Information Builders…

Pentaho Data Integration for Database Developers - Training in June 2009, Sydney

julia — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:43:57 +0000

Our next Pentaho training course, “Pentaho Data Integration for Database Developers”, will be held in June 1 - 4, 2009.

Join the course to discover the power of this open source data integration tool and learn how you can perform data analysis without investing in cost-intensive proprietary business intelligence software.

PDI, formerly “Kettle”, is a very powerful open source, open standards tool. It boasts a developer-friendly interface and is easy to install and use. In the course you will learn how to use PDI to combine data from different sources and make any transformations you want to get meaningful results from your data.

Register before the May 18th to get 30% off the Pentaho list price. Click here to register.

Find more details on our training page.

Pentaho Data Integration screenshot