by Andrew Cave | Aug 26, 2017 | How To, Pentaho
The week before last I delivered the Pentaho DI1000 training to a group to our North Sydney office and I got asked a question that (it turned out) had an easy answer. And as with a lot of things, I hadn’t read it, somebody had told me. The question was: When...
by Zachary Zeus | Jul 31, 2017 | BizCubed, How To, Main Blog
In her latest contribution to Computer Business Review, Pentaho CMO Rosanne Saccone reflects on the book, “Do Lunch or Be Lunch,” by Harvard Business School faculty member Howard H. Stevenson. As she points out, while Stevenson’s book itself may be a bit dated, the...
by Zachary Zeus | Jul 20, 2017 | How To, Main Blog, Pentaho, Resources
It’s been several years since the term “Data Lake” was coined by my friend and Pentaho co-founder James Dixon. The idea continues to be a hot topic and a challenge to execute properly. The problem is that too many people think all they need to do is dump data into...
by Zachary Zeus | Jul 20, 2017 | BizCubed, How To, Main Blog, Pentaho, Resources
The blueprint for filling the data lake refers to a modern data onboarding process for ingesting big data into Hadoop data lakes that is flexible, scalable, and repeatable. It streamlines data ingestion from a wide variety of source data and business users, reduces...
by Zachary Zeus | Jul 17, 2017 | BizCubed, How To, Main Blog, Pentaho
Recently Pentaho announced the release of Pentaho 7.1. Don’t let the point release numbering make you think this is a small release. This is one of the most significant releases of Pentaho Data Integration! With the introduction of the Adaptive Execution Layer (AEL)...
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...