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- Will European rules impact open source business models?
- Will European rules impact open source business models?Download is not the issue - its the tender processIt makes no sense to have a policy that accepts software that is 100% proprietary or 100% open source and nothing in between.Any commercial open source vendor can get around the download issue by...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Any friends OK for open source?
- Any friends OK for open source?Bye Bye PentahoI have been moving our data integration from Pentaho to Talend the department may look at Jaspersoft for BI. The folk over at Pentaho seem to be in another world or something. I'm not going to say I got deep into their community...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Any friends OK for open source?
- Pentaho has been accused of nothing, that I am making no accusations against them. I'm just asking whether there is such a thing as appearances. This Satyam scandal has been brewing for months, and Pentaho signs on the line which is dotted just as it explodes? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Scale-Out Scalability of the Pentaho BI Platform
- This paper contains the description of a method used to measure the performance of a BI platform. Also included, are ways in which to use these measurements to determine the scalability of a BI system in scale-out architecture. The data demonstrates that the Pentaho BI Platform scales linearly in a...
- White papers 2008-03-01
- A New Business Model to Drive Business Intelligence Acceptance and Adoption
- Business Intelligence BI is a well-established and generally well-known software category that spans a wide range of functional capabilities. Specific definitions will vary from customer to customer and vendor to vendor, but most will agree that business intelligence typically refers to the challenge of providing business users with meaningful information...
- White papers 2007-06-13
- How you acquire open source projects
- You do it backward.The integration, both personal and technical, occurs before the deal closes. The price, based on sales, is determined afterward.Pentaho CEO Richard K. Daley has done four such deals for the open source business intelligence tool company he heads-up, and calls the process akin to a courtship.The latest...
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- Pentaho: Disruptive BI
- Pentaho: Disruptive BIImpressive productI talked to them at the MySQL Conference, and was very impressed with the product.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- Pentaho: Disruptive BI
- Business Intelligence BI software refers to programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. Pentaho was founded in 2004 with a mission to become the leader in BI using a "commercial open source" model. ...
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
- Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Platform: Technical White Paper
- Organizations are all looking to increase revenue, lower expenses, and improve profitability by improving efficiency and effectiveness in their business processes and overall performance. Business Intelligence BI software vendors claim that they have the technology that can provide this improvement. Vendors concentrate on selling products or tools that can be...
- White papers 2005-07-08
- Open source blooming in new field
- Ex-software executives from Lawson, Hyperion, Oracle, SAS and other companies in the analytics field are heading up a new open source community and company, the Pentaho BI Project. (The Pentaho Indians were responsible for domesticating the West Indian Manatee.) It's part of the growing trend of former executives of proprietary...
- Blog posts 2005-06-14
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- Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure
- Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Sizing Study for Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Suite on Sun Platforms
- This paper describes a sizing study of Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence OSBI Suite on a Sun platform, including tests conducted with application tools from Pentaho. The purpose is to provide this guide as a reference point when users are choosing a suitable Sun platform for their Business Intelligence BI...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Can open source refuse to do business?
- Can open source refuse to do business?Could you ....do the same thing if your stuff was proprietary? I don't think this question applies just to open source. A license is a license.Probably illegalMy guess would be it would run afoul of all sorts of anti-competitive clauses in a whole bunch...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Cutting software maintenance costs 101
- Cutting software maintenance costs 101agreedI am no fan of vendors charging clients for unused products. Many clients of mine have taken this for granted, although they certainly haven't like it. Good suggestions, Larry.Drop your maintenance after 1 yearIt makes no sense to have a 18% maintenance contract on an MRP...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreamsIt also allows Oracle to take baby steps towards the world where databases become a commodity. They will be already are moving up the chain to applications.In the transition, Oracle will have the number one commodity database with the best monetization strategy, and be able...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-02
- Using Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL Database With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
- Organizations strive to deliver large amounts of data quickly and reliably and in an economical manner. However, existing storage solutions are expensive and hard to administer. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is an easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solution with the OpenSolaris Operating System. This paper demonstrates how...
- White papers 2009-04-29
- Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?
- Kickfire's hardware-accelerated MySQL appliance blows the doors off monster Oracle database servers in equivalent TPC-H benchmarks in a tiny fraction of the cost, space, storage and power usage. Last week, during their press briefings the future of the company looked bright indeed. There's only one...
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Any chance our student data could be consistent?
- Any chance our student data could be consistent?Analyzing Data fromTestsChris,Download the openIntel data model from os4ed.com and out your data in there for analysis using any of the free reporting tools available. (BIRT, Pentaho, Jasper, etc.) The data model was designed by Maurice Frank, the creator of the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Thanks, but no thanks, SAS
- Thanks, but no thanks, SASSome good R linkshttp://www.johnmwillis.com/r/are-you-using-r/openIntelTry openIntel, a free data model offered by OSEd ( http://osed.com ). IT is free and it includes documentation explaining it, the tables and the relations. It was designed by Maurice Frank, the original creator of the IBM Insight at...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Boats.com Unleashes the Power of Its Data Using Open Source Business Intelligence
- YachtWorld.com and Boats.com required a flexible, highly-scalable, maintainable market intelligence solution that could bring together all the data, and present the information in an easy to use format. The final challenge - the solution needed to be built within a reasonable budget. The envisioned market intelligence product required a centralized...
- Case studies 2008-09-23
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