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Pentaho
fans attending the MySQL
Conference & Expo
this week, April 23-26, have plenty of opportunity to meet some of their
favorite BI
Rock Stars. Five conference sessions and one "birds of a feather"
session will feature Pentaho Technology. The chief architects
of
Kettle, Mondrian and Pentaho will be presenting along with Roland
Bouman of MySQL.
Matt
Casters
Data Integration Architect and Kettle Project Founder
Exploiting
MySQL 5.1 for Advanced Business Intelligence Applications
Addressing
Data Chaos: Using MySQL and Kettle to Deliver World-class Data
Warehouses
Julian
Hyde
OLAP Architect and Mondrian Project Founder
Building
Scalable OLAP Applications with Mondrian and MySQL
James
Dixon
Chief Technology Officer and Pentaho Founder
Web-based
Ad-hoc Query and Reporting with Pentaho
Roland
Bouman
Certification Developer, MySQL A.B and Pentaho community member
BI4DBAs:
Using Pentaho, BIRT, and Eclipse for Monitoring MySQL
Matt,
Julian, James and Roland
Birds of a Feather Session
MySQL
Data Warehousing and BI
We would like to meet-up with community members who are at
the conference or are in the San Francisco bay area and can make it out
to the Santa Clara Hyatt Tuesday or Wednesday night. This is a great
opportunity to meet other
Pentaho users and developers and put faces with names. If
you are interested in coming out, email me at CommunityConnection@pentaho.org
or respond
to this forum post.
Thanks for making the
Pentaho open source project
successful,
Doug "Spanky" Moran
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Community Home Page Gets a Face Lift |
The new community home page http://community.pentaho.org
has been changed to put more useful information at your
fingertips. It is the first step in a series of changes we will
be making to help you be successful with Pentaho. The new style,
with less fluff and more "show me what I need" will make it's way to
all of the projects and sub-project pages.
We need feedback from you telling us what you like or don't like, what
information you need, what is too hard to find, etc. Please post your
ideas and comments in the Community Web Site thread in the Community Discussion forum.
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Highlights
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Mondrian 2.3.1 RC1 Released March
6th
- Cache flushing.
- More efficient evaluation of
queries, which return large results. Some MDX functions return their
results as iterators in addition to the usual list format.
- Additional exception handling for
long running queries and queries that return large result sets.
- JDK 1.5 is now the primary
development and delivery platform. You can continue to run Mondrian on
JDK 1.4 using the provided backwards-compatibility JARs created by Retroweaver.
- Added support for Ingres and
LucidDB
Download
Mondrian 2.3.1 RC1
Kettle
2.4.1 M1 Released February 19th
- Apache VFS support
- Advanced error handling: JS, Table
Output and Update
steps
- Limit size of logs in Spoon to max
5000 lines
(configurable)
- Create File, Delete File
and Wait for
file - Thanks Sven
- SFT Put: put file on remote FTP
server - Thanks
Joerg Kurzend
- BulkLoad into MySQL - Thanks
Samatar
Hassan
- WSDL lookup, first core
implementation
- Lots of i18n fixes and
documentation updates in several
languages.
Download
Pentaho Data Integration 2.4.1 M1 |
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Highlights
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Pentaho Reporting integrated in
OpenOffice.org
Pentaho and Sun have been working to together to integrate
Pentaho Reporting into the upcoming OpenOffice.org
release.
For the full story go
here
Pentaho Platform 1.5 Milestone 2 - March 20th.
This
is the first open source build that includes security, RDBMS solution
repository, subscriptions, web based adhoc reporting and much more.
Report Designer 1.2 RC2 - March
23.
- Many usability improvements
suggested in the forums and training sessions.
- Improved Report Design Wizard
integration
- Improved Query Designer integration
- Better JNDI and JDBC driver
handling including automatic driver "discovery"
- Many bug fixes
Mondrian
2.3 Released April 17th
- Advanced caching to optimize
performance
- Ability to flush data cache and
reload without stopping server
- Ability to trap and abort "runaway"
user queries across large databases
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Next Milestones |
Kettle
2.5 - Scheduled April 25
- Remote Job Execution
- Improve Filing of Bug Reports
- WSDL Plugin: cleanup, improvements
- PALO code integration
- Mirroring Partitioning Method
- Scheduler Integration
Pentaho
Platform 1.2.1 - Scheduled March 23rd.
Bug fixes to the 1.2.0 GA.
Pentaho
Platform 1.5 Milestone 3 Scheduled End of April.
Report Designer 1.2 GA - Early of
May.
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| Working
with the Projects |
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Not sure where to find all the tools you
need to be a committer in the Pentaho projects? Here's an on-ramp to
contributing to the projects, the location of the core tools of a
successful Pentaho developer:
Where do you start? Email communityconnection@pentaho.org.
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| Meet the
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Jens Bleuel
Pentaho Contributer
What company do you work for and what do you do?.
I work for PRORATIO Systeme und Beratung GmbH in Mainz, Germany. where
I develop software, do training and data warehouse projects.
Tell us
a little about your engineering career to date.
With my first IBM PC , I programmed remote control software on DOS
machines via modems and ISDN. I started my own company in 1988. Since
1996 I work for PRORATIO (formerly SERWIS) and started developing a
front-end-tool for a data warehouse solution on the AS/400. I
programmed in a wide area of
projects and environments, e.g. Assembler, C, Visual Basic, Delphi, .Net and these days mainly in Java.
When
did you first become interested in open source?
It was about 1998 where I set up a VPN (Poptop) on a SUSE Linux. (I
made the mistake and used the stable version, found bugs, fixed it,
found another bug, fixed it - now I know I should have better tried the
dev version first ;-) Also GOCR impressed me which we used in a special
OCR project scanning automated faxes. It performed much better then all
other software we tested.
What
projects do you work on at Pentaho?
Mainly I work for the Pentaho Data Integration (aka Kettle) project. In
the summer of 2005 I built the SAP connector ProSAPconn for Kettle
together with Matt as Kettle was not open source, yet. Since the demand
here in Germany for on site training, proof of concepts and projects
with Pentaho is increasing, I do a lot of work with the whole platform.
Unfortunately have a lack of time for developing in these days.
Do you work with any projects other than Pentaho?
Not anymore.
What do
you do in your spare time?
I practice Tai Chi, take photographs and plan to implement Kettle as a
control system for my old model railway together with my two sons ;-)
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