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12 Days of Visualizations – Sun Burst 14 Dec 2012 | 10:39 pm
Today we are launching our 12 Days of Visualizations program: http://events.pentaho.com/12days-of-Big-Data-Visualizations.html We are going to release a few new visualizations every week over the holi...
5 Out Of 6 Developers Are Using Open Source 10 Dec 2012 | 07:25 pm
ZDNet reports on a Forrester survey that finds 5 out of 6 developers are using or deploying open source. http://www.zdnet.com/five-out-of-six-developers-now-using-or-deploying-open-source-7000008499/...
I Never Owned Any Software To Begin With 25 Jun 2012 | 03:32 am
My thoughts on the whole Emily White/stealing music topic: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/06/16/154863819/i-never-owned-any-music-to-begin-with http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18...
Untitled 24 May 2012 | 02:22 am
I’m at the MongoNYC conference in New York today, where Pentaho is a sponsor. 10gen have done a great job with this event, and they have 1,000 attendees at the event. We just announced a strategic pa...
Pentaho and DataStax 29 Feb 2012 | 06:07 am
We announced a strategic partnership with DataStax today: http://www.pentaho.com/press-room/releases/datastax-and-pentaho-jointly-deliver-complete-analytics-solution-for-apache-cassandra/ DataStax pr...
Pentaho’s Big Data Release 3 Feb 2012 | 11:56 am
This week at Pentaho we announced a major Big Data release, including: Open sourcing of our of big data code Moving Pentaho Data Integration to the Apache license Support for Hbase, Cassandra, Mong...
Exporting, Reporting, and Visualizing: Get more from your data in MongoDB 19 Jan 2012 | 09:57 am
I’m presenting this session tomorrow at the MongoDB LA conference. We’ve got some great tech to demo. Tweet tag – #mongodbLA
Pentaho BI 4.0 Thin Client APIs and Theming webinar tomorrow 31 Aug 2011 | 06:13 am
Tomorrow I’m doing a session about the new data access APIs in the V4.0 release, as well sharing some knowledge about the new theme system in the BI server. Here is the session info for those that ar...
Using open source software is not a sin. We encourage it. 30 Jun 2011 | 09:22 am
Brian Gentile of Jaspersoft usually has some interesting and worthwhile things to say on his blog. But, in his latest post, he seems to have gone stark raving mad (to put it politely). The sin in ope...
olap4j V1.0 has been released. 13 Apr 2011 | 12:24 am
Back in the ’90s and early 2000′s I was involved in the attempts by the proprietary BI vendors to create common standards. Anyone remember JOLAP? The vendors were doing this only because of increasing...
