Bye bye Fred !

Well,
This blog is just about technical things, IT subjects, such as Pentaho, JasperSoft, Intalio or our own platforms (FreeAnalysis, FreeDashboar, FreeMetrics). Is this a place for personal thought … yes …
Yesterday, Fred Chichin died and a whole part of our music life has gone with Fred leaving this world (for those of you who are [...]

FreeAnalysis embeded into Liferay

Dear Readers,
Some of you (early contributors) have already noticed that FreeAnalysis is now running under Liferay, as an IFrame. Having innovative technologies embeded into strong technologies bring immetiadly FreeAnalysis to a state-of-art position, and allow us to forecast enterprise-wide deployment, as long as offering new features such as Olap document management.
LifeRay is a cool portal, [...]

Pentaho Training in Hong Kong

Hello,
I’m about to leave HongKong, were I was in charge of the first Pentaho Training in Asia, on behalf of Pentaho, for a limited but motivated number of trainees (8 skillfull people). This training was organised by Brainchild, Pentaho partner for the Asia region. I want to thank Patrick Choi for the organisation of this [...]

Introduction to Intalio

Dear readers,
If you need a Business Process Management system, just have a look at Intalio. The plateform is nice to manage your enterprise process and flexible enough to integrate external processes, using Web Services technologies. Intalio is a Palo Alto company that provide an Open Source version of its platform, along with an Enterprise version [...]

Who’s next ?

Oracle bought Hyperion in March, SAP bought Business Objects in October, and this week IBM bought Cognos (who just bought Applix some weeks ago)! There will be many articles and blogs about those buying – monopoly games – but let’s move forward and try to estimate the consequence on product roadmap, support and integration. [...]

Some News of FreeDashboard

Well, today, just some quick notes about FreeDashboard, because I have received many questions about this new project.
Over the last 2 weeks, we have added news components, such as a consistent filter interface that allow the design of multi-linked filters, with or without automatic refresh of the result, and we have cleaned the integration of [...]

Meeting Mondrian

Dear readers,
Last week, I was in SanFrancisco and took this opportunity to meet Julian Hyde, Mondrian leader and promoter. It was a real pleasure to meet with Julian, to put a picture on a mail address and to be abble to share some thinkings about Mondrian and Open Source Olap market. FreeAnalysis platform is [...]

Landscape of Freedom

Dear readers,
It appears that Matt Casters and its crasy super Kettle ETL software reached out an important step in their development cycle. Kettle 3.00 is about to be released, (please read Matt’s blog for additional information), and it will be the first major upgrade for Kettle since its broad adoption by the open source [...]