by Andrew Cave | Jul 23, 2019 | How To, Pentaho, Resources, Training
A common technique to restrict access in Pentaho Report Designer is use the variable ‘${env::username}’ in queries. This is replaced with the currently logged in username on the server and allows group memberships/rows access to be identified at the...
by Zachary Zeus | Aug 24, 2017 | BizCubed, Main Blog, Resources
Unlock your business – your team has the answers We have recently been reviewing the impact that data quality has on workforce productivity. In the analyses that we have seen, there is an impact of 10—32% of workforce time being wasted due to poor data productivity....
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 | Jun 14, 2017 | Analytics at Operational Scale, BizCubed, Main Blog, Pentaho, Resources
There is a growing trend wherein business analysts have more control than ever to prepare and analyze a variety of valuable data, often circumventing IT processes and policies. What are IT leaders to do? Can they liberate data to be used by analysts, yet provide...
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...
