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Comment on 150,000 installations year-to-date for Pentaho by Dr.Shailendra Singh

Dr.Shailendra Singh — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:38:34 +0000

Hi,

This gives really good picture about pentaho uses. Do you have any data about no. of Pentaho Developers countrywise? Could you give some link if you know? Thanks.

Comment on SAS under pressure from Pentaho by Fábio de Salles

Fábio de Salles — Mon, 28 May 2012 19:59:06 +0000

Reading all those comments again, I’ve seen something new: Jim might have been forced to comment on Pentaho not because SAS and Pentaho competes (I agree there are some overlapping, but SAS is some decades ahead in a lot of aspects), but because uninformed customers are costing them some sales. However, Jim has gone the wrong way. It is not that Pentaho is not corporate strength stuff, for it is, but BI ROI can only be achieved through great understanding of business data. As SAS still has the upper hand on this arena (Enterprise Miner goes on unbeatable, I believe) it should have stated this advantage, not tried to undermine Pentaho.

I had always a hard time trying to sell SAS because most people (and enterprises) wants to “see” things, while real money making comes from understanding it and reaping on the found opportunities whitin it. There is no ROI by reading a report. It seems that even Jim has some trouble making it stick out for the hordes of report-runners…

Comment on SAS under pressure from Pentaho by Robert

Robert — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:28:58 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something here, but Pentaho is known mainly as an OLAP server , with the sort of ETL that’s often attached to an OLAP warehouse? That is not SAS’s main business. Sounds like Microsoft is more of a direct competitor.
The Weka acquisition might change that, but I’ve heard before on the internet that Pentaho spokespeople consider SAS and SPSS (now in IBM) to be their main competition, but I don’t see an explanation.

Comment on Exporting, Reporting, and Visualizing: Get more from your data in MongoDB by Juhi Bhatia

Juhi Bhatia — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:58:02 +0000

Hi, can you share the video or slides for this presentation.

Comment on About by Usha Iyer

Usha Iyer — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:37:15 +0000

Hi James,
I am Usha Iyer, a Senior Acquisition Editor with Packt Publishing. As an Acquisition Editor, it is my role to evaluate, develop and ultimately bring book ideas to publication. I am also responsible for finding the right author for any book; bringing them onboard, then working with them as the book is written.

We are planning to update our Pentaho reporting book and I am looking for a suitable author for this book.
You can find some more information about writing for us at Packt’s website http://www.packtpub.com/authors.

Please contact me if you are interested in writing this book and I would love to discuss the opportunity with you further.

Even if you do not want to involve yourself in the project, can you please suggest someone who may suit this project?

Thanks,
Usha
Email: ushai@packtpub.com

Comment on SAS under pressure from Pentaho by Fábio de Salles

Fábio de Salles — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:14:28 +0000

Nice post! I’ve worked for SAS in Brazil on year 2000 (man! more than a decade ago!) and my profound appreciation for Pentaho steems from the fact Pentaho is so much like SAS! Pentaho is SAS Open Sourced! It is only a matter of time SAS became the “niche player” and Pentaho became mainstream. And not much time, for sure! I work now at Serpro, and Pentaho is used for every new BI project. (We have som BO and a lot of MicroStrategy, mostly because it was already there when Pentaho matured, around 2010.)

Comment on Pentaho and DataStax by Pentaho and DataStax « Pentaho Business Analytics Blog

Pentaho and DataStax « Pentaho Business Analytics Blog — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:42:39 +0000

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Comment on Quality Assurance by “Who’s on first…” | Shizen008's Blog

“Who’s on first…” | Shizen008's Blog — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:44:40 +0000

[...] Designers, Developers, and QA aren’t the only stake holders. In the end, it’s also the end users and how effective the product becomes. When they are able to speak up in the beginning, the product I believe tends to be in a better quality state. I am not the only one thinking this way, see James Dixon’s blog about open source quality assurance. [...]

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The Open Core Debate | Giovanni Tirloni — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:59:43 +0000

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Comment on 150,000 installations year-to-date for Pentaho by Caio Moreno de Souza

Caio Moreno de Souza — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:44:36 +0000

Brazil rocks with Pentaho.