Strategic Maps for FreeMetrics

Dear Readers,
Thanks to Alain, we are pleased to announce that using FreeMetrics, our Balanced & Business Score Card platform, developpers can now design & deploy strategic maps at enterprise level. Strategic Maps are related to Kaplan’s maps, which allow different key performance indicators to be grouped in different manner, for different analysis objectives.
For FreeMetrics, Strategic [...]

FreeMetrics joined our GWT set of platforms

Dear Readers,
After FreeAnalysis and FreeDashBoard, we finally closed the migration of FreeMetrics Web using GWT Framework. Previous version of FreeMetrics Web was based on Struts-Shale (summer 06). This ‘Shale’ version was nice (let’s say : Struts is very powefull), but we have decided to standardize all our Web platform on GWT.
In FreeMetrics Web, we have [...]

FreeMetrics – Geolocalisation Feature

Dear Readers,
I have always been impressed by presentation such as Pentaho / GoogleMap integration, not from a technical side, but from a user perspective : this is usefull for any user to see results on a map.
First time I’ve seen this kind of representation, it was a Cognos KPI Web interface (an historical version, before [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Good News : We are late !

Dear Readers,
We originally forecasted to delivere new versions of our Platforms FreeAnalysis and FreeDashboard by the end of november 2007. Well … we are late … again ! But this comes along with good news :
- FreeAnalysis (especially Designer and Java client) have so many new features (we cover now 100% of Mondrian’s properties), [...]

2 BI Platforms available

It appears that over the last 5 weeks, we’ve done so many things around our platforms FreeAnalysis and FreeMetrics that I just forget to post on my blog !
This concerns both – our development & organisation, but also our deployment strategy. For deployment, we have left the Sourceforge server, for reasons that I shall explain [...]