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Moving Beyond “Business” In Business Intelligence

Alex — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:34:06 +0000

BI is not only about business anymore, so why are we still calling it "Business Intelligence"?

Saiku Hits 2.0 GA

Alex — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:18:37 +0000

The folks at Analytical Labs have released Saiku 2.0 GA!

NC Pentaho User Group Meeting – May 3rd 2011

Alex — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:27:35 +0000

Overview of the May 3rd 2011 North Carolina Pentaho User Group Meeting.

Book Review: Pentaho Kettle Solutions

Alex — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:42:50 +0000

Pentaho Kettle Solutions picks up where Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration: Beginner’s Guide leaves off. For ETL developers who want to have an in-depth reference to many of the more advanced features of one the leading open source data integration packages, then this is the book to read. The book focuses on the 34 ETL subsystems [...]

Saiku Analytics Pentaho BI Plugin Available

Alex — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:15:32 +0000

Saiku, the cool open source OLAP tool is now available as a plugin for the Pentaho BI Server. The developers need to test the code out – so go grab a copy and spin it up in a test environment. This is a great partial (soon to be full) replacement for the default JPivot in [...]

Pentaho Data Integration (a.k.a. Kettle) and Database Sharding

Alex — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:39:56 +0000

So I recently had a situation where I needed to run the same transformation over multiple database shards, which turns out to be relatively easy to do with the right mix of transformations and jobs. This post will walk through the steps needed so you can do the same thing. Go ahead and download the [...]

Pentaho Solutions: A Needed Resource With Potential for More To Come

Alex — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:40:27 +0000

I recently received my pre-ordered copy of Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL (linky (amazon.com)) and felt it needed to be the first official BlueFireDS Book Review. It is the first resource available from a third-party about the excellent BI suite Pentaho (pentaho.com). If you have not worked with Pentaho [...]

Propel Fans Rejoice!

Alex — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:48:26 +0000

So recently I posted about how symfony has made the move to officially support Doctrine as the default ORM in future releases of my favorite PHP framework. A lot of questions were raised, mainly because even though Propel is still going to be supported by symfony, it looked like Propel was dead in the water [...]

Symfony Making the Move to Doctrine

Alex — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:41:37 +0000

Well, as posted yesterday on the symfony blog Doctrine will now be the defacto standard for symfony’s ORM. To be honest, I’m not surprised at all with this move – it makes sense seeing that the Doctrine team are on board at Sensio. Sensio Labs was looking for something that fit with their overall strategy [...]

Death of MySQL is Greatly Exaggerated….

Alex — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:58:44 +0000

I’m noticing that quite a few folks are posting about how MySQL is going to die a slow and painful death now that Sun has been purchased by Oracle. As I commented on one site – I have to politely disagree. The MySQL franchise may very well go away or be rebranded (which I think [...]