BI feeds

I was writing about the difference between operational systems like ERP and informational systems like BI. One of the most obvious differences is that ERP systems support operational or business processes. The information that is captured is very explicit. It is almost binary. Data latency is minimal.BI systems are often supporting decision making processes on a more strategic level. There is no yes or no. Often it is about maybe or what if. The information is much more implicit. Data latency is often a problem. Looking at all this made me think.BI has always been more tactical or strategic. But it has also never been the big success that we BI people claim it can have. Is the reason that we have been looking in the wrong direction. Maybe Operational BI has much more value? What do you think?

Oracle has something new. It is called EPM TV.  See: http://www.epmtv.eu/Home. It is all about Enterprise Performance Management. Somebody on twitter said: “Cool, Frank Buytendijk now has his own TV channel”.It made me think. If Frank has his own TV channel, I want to have my own movie. So therefore I proudly present to you: BI the Movie. Now on any computer near you.Just follow this link: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090628071326228

For some reason, the creation of a mapping to a database table poses a problem for certain people.

This is how it’s done in PDI 3.2.0 or later in the “Table Output” step:

Ogg video available over here

Until next time,
Matt

Dear Kettle fans,

For those of you that are interested, Pentaho is organizing a free community oriented WebEx conference tomorrow (Wed June 17th).  Community oriented means no marketing and open for discussion and feedback.

The goal of the one-hour session is to inform the community of the drastic changes that are taking place in the Pentaho Data Integration product.  More specifically we will cover the challenges that we face with respect to version control of jobs and transformations, central repositories, team development, etc.  We will cover the work we did so far, the choices we made, etc.

Follow this link for more information on the WebEx conference.

See you tomorrow!

Matt

UPDATE : The recording of the session as well as the presentation are available

Simply following the rest of the bloggers on this meme.

Usually I get by with these numbers.  The upload speed is dramatically low though.

I’ve wanted to fly since I was 14.  I started training in 2004, but cut it short when I moved from Boston to Seattle.  The wife was kind enough to give me a swift kick in the butt telling me to go get the license now; doing so later in life will be more difficult.

In May I logged 15 hours of dual instruction at Boeing Field (short 15 min drive from my house) and yesterday I soloed the 172 Skyhawk N52139 for the first time.

I was expecting the solo to be intense; thinking intensely and hearing my instructors voice in my head with all the things that have to happen all at the same time to get the plane safely on the ground.  Instead, I found that after the training, I know how to simply “fly the plane” and was just doing what I knew the plane needed to land softly without much thinking.  After 2 touch and gos and a full stop landing both me and my instructor concluded I’ve acquired the “walking and chewing gum” skills when it comes to flying.

I’ll be continuing training hours over the next couple of months.  I’m aiming for September for getting my license so I can take my wife places with me in the plane.  After all, her encouragement is what got me going on this old aspiration; least I can do is fly her to dinner in the San Juans.

Dear Kettle friends,

Will Gorman and Mike D’Amour, Senior Developers at Pentaho, are presenting Pentaho’s Google integration work at the Google I/O Developer Conference. (at the Sandbox area to be specific)   Yesterday, Pentaho announced that much.

Here are a few of the integration points:

• Google maps dashboard (available in the Pentaho BI server you can download)
• A new Google Docs step was created for Pentaho Data Integration Enterprise Edition
• Running (AVI, 30MB) the Pentaho BI server on Android
• A new Google Analytics step was created for Pentaho Data Integration Enterprise Edition
• Since version 2.0, the Pentaho BI server depends heavily on Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

To top that off, Will twittered about this new Lego bar-chart + logo they created for the conference:

UPDATE: now with building instructions and action video!

We are all soooo proud of them!

Until next time,

Matt

This coming Friday I will be on the Frugal Friday Show – http://www.frugalfridayshow.com talking about open source-related stuff.

The show is hosted by Ken Hess (an author and consultant and Linux blogger on DaniWeb) and Jason Perlow who is a blogger on ZDNet

The show starts at 6:30 Eastern and I’ll be on at 7pm. I am looking forward to it, should be fun.

You can listen online – http://www.blogtalkradio.com/frugalfriday