FreeAnalysis in the Top 10 of french Open Source Projects

Dear Readers
Just a simple post to inform you that Freeanalysis/Vanilla has been rewarded this month as one of the 10 successfull French Open Source project by l’Informaticien, along with other Open Source projects like Talend, Jonas or ExoPlatform. This is a tremendeous recognition of our investment in Open Source Business Intelligence, and a direct encouragement [...]

Coming back to Products

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It’s been a while since I didn’t communicate on our products. Reason was simple : we’ve worked hard to create new innovative & reliable components and I didn’t want to put additional pressure on shoulder of my CTO during this period. There is  a time to imagine, a time to develop, a time to [...]

Meeting FreeAnalysis customers

Dear Readers,
I have taken some times over the last weeks to meet customers of our FreeAnalysis platform, and try to adjust some subjects such as how customers may replace Jpivot by FreeAnalysis and what are their behind expectation for the FreeAnalysis platform,
Conclusion is simple and very insteresting : there was a slight decalage between how [...]

A review of FreeAnalysis Web

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Just some simple screenshots of our new FreeAnalysis Web interface. We delivered this new package (along with significant enhancements in Schema Designer such as Aggregate Table Wizard or Dimension viewer in SVG format) last week, and we get strong & good feedback from the community.
Freeanalysis Web is based on 2 keys components : GWT [...]

Developer Adoption & Community

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Saving times and providing wizards are key subjects that makes the life of developer better. We had numerous nice feedbacks with FreeAnalysis Schema Designer and FreeDashBoard Designer : those packages are user friendly and provide many features to help developers in their daily job. And we are happy with those feedbacks from the community, [...]

New FreeAnalysis Web – Preview based on GWT

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Good technologies have to rely on strong technologies. And there are some new releases of software that automatically turn the previous version into a “so old version”. This is exactly what happened to me today when I received first screen shots of FreeAnalysis Web, GWT version (see bellow). 2 months ago, we took [...]

SpagoBI choose FreeAnalysis as its Olap Platform

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SpagoBI project has decided to embed FreeAnalysis in their next release of the Open Source BI Platform. This is an important recognition for all the work we have done other the past 2 years to ease the development and deploiment of Olap cubes. Thanks to Grazia Cazzin, SpagoBI project manager, the cooperation between the [...]

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 [...]

FreeAnalysis : Going ‘GA’

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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 [...]

FreeAnalysis Skills Wanted

Dear Readers,
Running a Google research on ‘freeanalysis’, I recently found companies looking for FreeAnalysis skills ! What a surprise for me, and what a recognation for Ronan, Cédric, Ludovic, Emmanuel and Alain, who have invested so much of their precious time in developping this wonderfull user-friendly platform. This is also an important success for our [...]