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Data Services Pyramid
Data Services PyramidWhile delivering services on Business Intelligence - or any of the other words you want to make up for it, Business Analytics, Data Science, whatever (I’ve always been more focused...
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Ctools Releases: 12.10.17
CDE:Changelog: * Added google analytics componente developed by Sinn Tecnologia * Added about & documentation buttons to CDE. * Added new features to CGG export window * General image...
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New CDF Release 12.11.09 - Compatibility release with 4.8
Pentaho 4.8 EE is out! Lot's of cool stuff there.And obviously we had to make sure our Ctools were compatible with it. (Ok, I'm lying - one of our users tested it and reported some incompatibility :p...
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Making CDF calls asynchronous
MotivationSince the beginning, CDF has always worked in sync mode. Really not sure if it was a decision based on simplification or simply lack of skill. It's time to change that, though.Having CDF...
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Pentaho Marketplace is here
This is a huge milestone. Webdetails and Pentaho worked together to implement a Marketplace to the BI server. Will Gorman, VP of Engineering of Pentaho already had the chance to blog about this, but...
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Multiple provider authentication in pentaho
ObjectiveWe needed to add support for multiple authentication in Pentaho. Currently, there are several providers that can be used, like LDAP, hibernate and jdbc, but it's not possible to use several at...
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Sharing Mondrian cache in Pentaho
Problem Conceptually, this should be very simple. You have a mondrian cube, Sales, for instance. You build analysis, reports, dashboards, etc, on it. You would expect that issuing the same query though...
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Chartmas gift: CCC 2 released
I admit we're really bad at at Seasons' Greetings. I also assume that the worst thing I could do was to start wishing peace on earth with a Jingle bells, as I surely would end up listed in a website...
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CDF Async Support
Introduction This is a huge change! Since the beginning, CDF behaved in a synchronous way. The problem is that with several components, performance suffers with it. This change represents a major...
View ArticleCDE / CDF components and templates in Pentaho solution directory
Someone brought to my attention that this is a very useful, though undocumented feature. TL;DR, you can have templates and components in the solution directory and not in the plugin directory, that...
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Debugging kettle tasks in MapReduce - Sane WriteToLog
Finally started to play with bigdata and pentaho. On my specific case, Cloudera CDH3u4. At Mozilla we have a few clusters of over 80 machines that we're using to backup a bunch of servicesDebugging...
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Pentaho Bigdata - 101 to a bit more
MotivationDo I need one? Haven't you read the news? It's bigdata, this will make us all rich! I'm not one of the voices that claim that this is the best invention since the wheel. There's a lot of hype...
View ArticleNew Ctools releases - 13.02.07
Here it goes, a new release available:CDFMajor Change: Async behavior and whole new component lifecycle.Full changelog:Introduced Async Behavior and new component life cycleInitial Storage fetch moved...
View ArticleCBF - Build RPMs automatically
MotivationCBF - Community Build Framework - is an amazing tool for being able to maintain several projects, compile pentaho and even doing remote deploys using rsync.However, there are cases where...
View ArticleCPK - Community Plugin Kickstarter - Request For Comments
CPKOne more Ctool in the works. Once again I'm calling out for comments, suggestions, whatever. Let me know what you thing and suggestions for improvements, or even if you think this makes no sense at...
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Pentaho Day 2013 in Brazil, Fortaleza
I'm pretty excited about this. The Brazilian pentaho community, one of the most active ones I know of, is organizing the second community event in Brazil, this time in Fortaleza, April 20It's gonna be...
View ArticleNew Ctools Releases: 13.03.25
Easter release! CDFCCC V2 integration!Full changelog: * CCC V2 integration * Added capability to detect session timeout and request new credentials (instead of silently failing) * Feature:...
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A new challenge - Webdetails joins Pentaho
The Announcement Now here's a blog post that a while back I wouldn't even think about writing.I'm very happy to announce that Webdetails will join Pentaho! Here's an excerpt from the press release:P {...
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Experimenting and sharing CCC2 charts
CCC, now on version 2, is a very powerful charting engine, with a lot of customization abilities. Like Thomas Morgner likes to quote, with great power comes great responsibility. While a lot is...
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Ctools Icon Set
Our UX team, tired of putting up to the speed where we develop new ctools, decided that it would be a good idea to build an official icon set that you can get from our website.Obviously, we allow it to...
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