Webdetails X'mas Present: Doing something good (for a change?)
I guess virtually everyone wants to be a "good" person. Do something that helps making the world a better place. Lots of kids want to be doctors, vets, do research to cure diseases, help someone...
View ArticleNew Pentaho Application: Pentaho Repository Synchronizer
There's a new plugin available for Pentaho. Why am I not announcing another Ctool? Well... basically our marketing team doesn't allow us to create yet more Ctools :p . Also, through time we ended up...
View ArticleBTable is now available in the Pentaho Marketplace
In august of last yet I got an email out of the blue (the authors will certainly excuse my indiscretion):Hi Pedro and Nuno,our names are Massimo Bonometto and Luca Pazzaglia.We both work for a small...
View ArticleAAAR - Alfresco Audit Analysis and Reporting
Alfresco is one of the most widely used open source content management systems. It does what it does and does it very well. And though it's not part of it's core, everyone understand how crutial it is...
View ArticleDebugging Sparkl applications: Pentaho JCR Repository Synchronizer real world...
It's undeniable that I really love the Sparkl concept - allows for very fast development of applications / extensions using technologies that we are very familiar with. And I'm amazed by the quality of...
View ArticlePentaho Project Maturity Classification
When I blogged about Webdetails joining Pentaho, I mention that a lot of the community work I was going to do would be on the inside of the organization, working to come up with better models to allow...
View ArticleNew Pentaho Language Pack Installers - Dutch, French, Hindi, Korean and...
No other way to say it: Pentaho Community is the best in the world. A while back I sent an email to a few people with a "small" challenge:Hey - would you be willing in working with us in translating...
View ArticlePCMD - The debut of the German Language Pack Installer
I was fortunate enough to be part of the Pentaho Community Meeting in Deutschland (#PCMD). Full audience, great presentations, lot's of interesting discussions! Too bad I don't understand half of what...
View ArticlePentaho Community has a new home
New Pentaho Community Websiteshttp://community.pentaho.comNo more under construction messages. No more 2008-ish style websites. The Pentaho Community now has a new, entirely redesigned websites.So...
View ArticleStartup Rule Engine: New Sparkl App in the Pentaho Marketplace
A bit of history 5 years ago, Aaron, at the time a Pentaho employee, started a thread at the forums on the following subject:Tell Us How to Improve the Action Sequence storyOne of the replies was from...
View ArticleCtools Dashboard development in 5.0 - Using your favorite editor for js / css...
5.0 came with a new paradigm for the file repository. No longer we have a file representation of the content of the JCR.Imagine we're developing a Pentaho Ctools dashboard. We have an external resource...
View ArticleCTools Stable version available - 14.03.07
New CTools Releases - 14.03.07We're finally ready to announce the release of a new stable set of the ctools. It's the first one after the release of pentaho 5.0.It took us lots of time to get to a...
View ArticleWisdom of Crowds - Make your voice heard
There are many analyst reports out there ranking BI & Analytics vendors - more than I can follow, I have to admit. One of the reports I do follow is Howard Dresner’s Wisdom of Crowds Market Study....
View ArticlePentaho Data Integration Cookbook - 2nd Edition
One more book to add to the #pentaho library. This time the second edition of the Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook.There's little I can say about the book that doesn't sound partial. Maria Carina...
View ArticlePentaho CDE with BootStrap - A quick sample
Let's go BootStrapThe latest versions of CDE now have Bootstrap support. This was an initial submission by Marcello Pontes, from Brazilian partner Oncase, and improved by Harris Ward and team from Ivy...
View ArticlePentaho Ctools and the Fine Art of BI
Today, Pentaho is launching a campaign specially focused at some of the work that we've been doing for a while. It's called the Fine Art of BI.For me, this sums up the real power of BI is, and where...
View ArticleThe 3 pillars for Pentaho Community Strategy
Almost one year onIt's been one year since Webdetails joined Pentaho. For me it seems much less than that! (even though if you ask the people that have to put up with me, I'm sure they'll say it feels...
View ArticleEnvironmentDisplay: Getting extra information about your Pentaho system
Environment Display A couple of weeks back, Jan Aertsen, Services Director EMEA/APAC at Pentaho sent me an email with an implicit challenge:In services, we use a handy .jsp file to show variable and...
View ArticleNew set of stable CTools releases available - 14.05.06
CDF - Version 14.05.06New CDF release for both Pentaho 4.x and Pentaho 5.x available.Release Notes - Community Dashboard Framework - Version 14.05.06 Bug [CDF-257] - Load of script should be local,...
View ArticleD3 Pentaho Component Gallery
D3 Pentaho Component GalleryConcept It's undeniable -Â d3Â is amazing and a very hot piece of technology. And on a weekly basis it comes up in conversations with customers:Does Pentaho support d3? The...
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