Closing Roadmaps

Dear Readers,
Well, I’m trying to close roadmaps for our 3 platforms, in cooperation with Alain, our CTO. What a challenge to try to design products and their features taking in consideration that platforms can be used separatly or bundled. We have also to design each time Open Source and commercial features, and make this choice [...]

Next Level : FreeDashboard Embeded into LifeRay

Dear Readers,
We did it ! We have embeded a FreeDashboard document (both static and dynamic) into Liferay ! And its running well.
We are now in position to offer a Dashboard service that put together Pentaho xaction (basically reports and charts), FreeMetrics Alerts, FreeMetrics KPIs, FreeAnalysis Olap reports and any kind of label / picture [...]

Going beyond Analysts position

Dear Readers,
It is said that software analysts are like market study : this is a mandatory step, but you can’t expect to do something with their result. Well, other the past few weeks, I tried to get in contact with “established” and “recognized” market study companies to have our platforms referenced in their “list of [...]

Some News of FreeMetrics

Dear Readers,
It’s been a while since I didn’t gave you some news of the FreeMetrics platform ! Well, we didn’t advertise this platform a lot, as Balanced & Business ScoreCarding is not a common request when addressing BI Subjects, but it remains a “must to have”, and sometimes a mandatory piece of software when [...]

FreeAnalysis : Going ‘GA’

Dear Readers,
We finally released FreeAnalysis 1.0 GA, providing a reliable Designer, user friendly java and Web client, and tight integration with the Pentaho platform. All is not perfect, and we have to improve documentation process, to move away from Dojo (we have started to rewrite the Web 2.0 interface using GWT), and to clean some [...]

Migration Year

Dear Readers,
I have received last week a marketing mail from Microstrategy that contains information to enter into migration process for customers who have Cognos or Business Objects licences. Great marketing idea from Microstrategy, because nobody can forecast what will happen in terms of product’s strategy for Cognos & BO. Microstrategy offers migration licences at low [...]

Happy New Year

Dear Readers,
Wishing all the best to all the surfers of this blog ! Hoping all of you will have good health and lots of success in your professinal and private projects.
Personally, this year will be special : we have worked hard for many years and I think this is now time for something else : [...]