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2009/11/16

In this post, I am looking at a few details of using Javascript in a transformation. I will present a few modifications that considerably improve performance of the Javascript execution. Some of these improvements are generic: because they apply to the use of the javascript language, they are likely to improve performance in both Talend as well as Kettle. Other improvements have to do with the way the incoming and outgoing record streams are bound to the javascript step in Kettle....

2009/07/07

This wiki contains documentation and information for the Pentaho Open Source BI Suite Community Edition (CE). The suite includes ETL, OLAP analysis, metadata, data mining, reporting, dashboards and a platform that allows you to create complex solutions to business problems....

2009/06/26

With CDF's inclusion in pentaho, the user base has increased a lot. And I'm absolutely sure that the vast majority of the users that download Pentaho have no idea of what they can do with it. Looking back to 1 or 2 years ago the improvements have been huge; We can now develop Pentaho dashboards in 1/10th of the time, being able to focus on content, and not in technology. Still, I have to admit that it's still a steep learning curve to a new users. We are working on a set of samples/tutorials to make it easier for new users to understand how it works - from simple inputs to sparklines in dashboards....

2009/06/26

The Community Dashboard Framework has the goal to make the creation of dashboards using the Pentaho BI Platform as easy as possible.

2009/06/17

This document provides you with a technical description of Spoon. Spoon is the graphical transformation and job designer associated with the Pentaho Data Integration suite - also known as the Kettle project.

2009/06/17

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle) is the component of Pentaho responsible for the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processes. Through a simple "Hello world" example, this tutorial will to show you how easy it is to work with PDI and get you ready to make your own more complex Transformations....

2009/05/25

Remember those rogue business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) deployments that first came to the fore in the 1990s? They're coming back. Workgroup BI didn't die, of course -- it was just dormant. With the advent of several explicit end-user-oriented offerings -- including the much-anticipated Project Gemini from Microsoft Corp. -- workgroup BI is poised for a big comeback....

2009/04/02

Article on Pentaho's recent agreement with Amazon to offer version 3.0 via Amazon's EC2 Cloud hosting service.

2008/02/12

Beside agreeing to continue integrating their open-source product lines, the companies plan to offer customer support and conduct joint sales and marketing activities.

2008/01/05

Pentaho Corporation provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite...