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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

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

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 3.0 the Community and the Cloud - WOW (michaeltarallo.blogspot.com)

Commercial Open Source Business Intelligence company Pentaho is joining the roster of applications available via Amazon.com Inc.’s EC2 Web hosting service.

Companies will be able to “rent” the new release of Pentaho, Version 3.0, via EC2. That arrangement should lower the upfront start-up costs of using Pentaho — though those costs were already low to begin with. A Pentaho subscription is a fraction of what a proprietary vendor would charge you for software licenses alone.

Evaluations and implementations fail because of people, not the software - (usually) (michaeltarallo.blogspot.com)

At one time, Open Source software had a stigma about being poorly documented. In my opinion, I believe that has changed for the most part. While working for Pentaho, a Commercial Open Source BI company, I have taken part in tasks that help create awareness around our software. It involves many resources made available to understand it, use it, explore it, modify it and even evolve it. Whether it is creating Wiki pages, video tutorials, tech tips, and blog entries or working with documentation services, I have come to find that having a successful implementations or evaluations really comes down to two things.

Pentaho: Unmatched Power and Flexibility (michaeltarallo.blogspot.com)

With each passing day I am continually amazed at the power and flexibility of the Pentaho BI Suite and its architecture. With the Pentaho Dashboard Designer, found in the new Pentaho Enterprise Edition 3.0, I was able to add the capability for even the non-technical business user to utilize “dynamic” Google mapping mash-ups. “Dynamic” meaning that the map displayed and its points, are based off of what the user selects from the input screen.

Flexibility and Complexity in Business Intelligence (arubawayne.blogspot.com)

Many times, too many to count, I have companies requesting a BI tool that “Offers great flexibility and powerful enough for developers to use but easy enough for end users to use as well”. This is a very common misplaced expectation that people have. The reason is simple, there is an direct relationship between flexibility and complexity.