Category: Data Warehousing
Information Architecture and DynamoBI
An exercise for a friend has reminded me of the importance of Information Architecture for all sorts of personal and business information, as I help out with DynamoBI and LucidDB. more »
OpenSQLcamp Play with Data
On November 14 and 15th, I attended openSQLcamp 2009 in Portland, OR. It was a great event, and I was honored to be accepted for a five minute lightening talk: "I Play with Data". I would like to thank Sheeri (aka tcation) for providing Youtube videos… more »
Microsoft Acquires Datallegro whither Ingres
07/25/08 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Data Warehousing
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Data Warehousing I've been "hearing" all day on Twitter that Microsoft would be announcing something big at OSCON2008. Perhaps this is it:
Microsoft today announced that it intends to acquire DATAllegro, provider of breakthrough data warehouse appliances. The acquisiti… more »
John Sichi of LucidDB
08/28/07 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Data Warehousing
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Data Warehousing Earlier today, I met John Sichi for coffee at the Half Moon Bay Coffee Co. in the Stone Pine Center. John is also a Coastsider and very involved in open source data management & analytics. We spoke of many things: our histories, folk we know in co… more »
Complex Data Visualization at MySQL BI DW BoaF
04/25/07 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Data Mining, Dashboard
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Data Mining, Dashboard Just got home from the MySQL Data Warehousing and BI Birds of a Feather gathering (BoaF). I'm tired, but my mind is on overdrive. 'Tis a great feeling.
First, I want to thank Lance Walter of Pentaho for introducing Clarise and me to the group as pub… more »
Campus Technology 2007 Schedule
03/25/07 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing The schedule for the Campus Technology 2007 conference is online; a PDF of the brochure is also available for download. In addition to our session, there are several other workshops and talks related to either BI/DW or open source solutions.
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Campus Technology 2007
01/29/07 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
| Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing Mary Grush has invited Clarise and I me to speak at the Campus Technology 2007 conference to be held in Washington, D.C., USA. We'll be speaking on Wednesday, 2007 August 1 at 11:15am-12:15pm. In general, institutes of higher learning are only beginnin… more »
Open Source: Closing thoughts of Vladimir Stojanovski
12/21/05 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing Over the past five years, our research into open source BI components has shown few projects supporting BI, and no BI suites, until recently. Bee is the oldest of the open source BI suites, starting in 2002. Five years ago, there was one open source pr… more »
Bizgres
11/18/05 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Database
| Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Database Recently, Navica and InterASC teamed up on project where the customer required we use PostgreSQL as a central data warehouse. Clarise pointed out that PostgreSQL lacked essential attributes to be an efficient platform for data warehousing. In investiga… more »
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