Category: Open Source
Technology for the OSS DSS Study Guide
06/15/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide 'Tis been longer than intended, but we finally have the technology, time and resources to continue with our Open Source Solutions Decision Support System Study Guide (OSS DSS SG). This post gives a descriptions of the capabilities we want and the OSS projects we'll use. more »
OSS DSS Formalization
04/28/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, technology, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, technology, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide The next step in our open source solutions (OSS) for decision support systems (DSS) study guide (SG), according to the syllabus, is to make our first decision: a formal definition of "Decision Support System" and listing the technologies that will contri… more »
Syllabus for OSS DSS Studies
03/23/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide As promised, here's the syllabus for our study guide to decision support systems using open source solutions. We'll start with a first draft on 2010-03-23, and update and change based on ideas, comments and lessons learned. So, please comment. :) The… more »
Questions and Commonality
03/19/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: books, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: books, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide In this post, the second in a series of posts to form an open source solutions decision support system study guide, we begin to explore the questions asked in the first post, and try to define the elements required for a modern DSS. more »
An Open Source Childrens Story
Twittering on a rainy Friday afternoon leads to a Hero's Quest in IT Land for a band of Open Source characters and maybe an OSCON Keynote. more »
Pentaho Reporting Review
01/21/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: books, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, Reports
| Categories: books, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, Reports Following up on my first look at Will Gorman's Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers, this post is a thorough review of the book, as well as highlighting the features of Pentaho Reporting that Will covers. more »
Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers First Look
12/12/09 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: books, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, Reports
| Categories: books, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, Reports I was approached by Richard Dias of Packt Publishing to review "Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers" written by Will Gorman. (Link is to Amazon.com)
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Why Open Source for a Friend
This post is in response to "Volunteer for the Greater Good" written by S. Kleiman. I remember that village in Pennsylvania, and the attitudes of my friend at that time. I'm not surprised that you're attracted to open source; I am surprised that you're having trouble with embracing its ideals. more »
SQLStreamv2 Real Time BI
01/26/09 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Open Source, Business Intelligence Today, SQLStream announced version 2.0 of their Real Time BI solution. SQLStream comes from the fertile creativity of Julian Hyde, who is also the founder of the open source Mondrian OLAP engine. While SQLStream is not open source, it does stem from th… more »
Microsoft Acquires Datallegro whither Ingres
07/25/08 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | 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 »
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