by Zachary Zeus | Sep 29, 2014 | Analytics Products, Fun and Interesting, How To
Integrating to Xero.com from Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) One of the things I love about Pentaho is its great data management tool PDI, or ‘Kettle’ as it’s known. Pentaho can load in and write out over 100 different data sources. It’s the...
by Zachary Zeus | Sep 15, 2014 | Analytics Products, Main Blog, Resources
Our business is built aroound being data janitors. As a result we chose tools which make our job as easy and cost effective as possible. A couple of weeks ago this article came out in the NY times. It was about the data wrangling work necessary to glean the...
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 | 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...
