Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Suite - European User Group

Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Suite - European User Group

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  • Jens Borrack
    Jens Borrack
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    Jens Borrack
    Hi,

    i'd like to introduce myself to the community with a quick summary of what i've been doing with Pentaho so far.

    My work focusses on Business Process Management and Corporate Performance Measurement.

    For this reason i started a 'proof of concept' in the beginning of 2008 utilizing Kettle as data integration platform for gaining business process related performance data from various source systems.

    I quickly had to realize, that Pentaho doesn't focus on data/application integration (e.g. no integrated XSLT engine, no application adapters).

    So my experiences are somewhat rudimentary, but i see pentaho as a solution with high potential for some of our smaller projects with BI focus.

    From this community i hope to learn more of what you can do with pentaho and gain some insight in projects that have been realized with pentaho.

    Cheers,
    Jens
    • 15 Aug 2008, 4:08 pm
  • Jens Bleuel
    Jens Bleuel    Premium Member   Group moderator
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    Re: Jens Borrack
    Hi Jens,

    thanks for your introduction!

    Before I started at Pentaho last year mid 2007, I worked for the Pentaho partner Proratio and did some projects in this field. E.g. integrate a web application via XML files to SAP and trigger the generation of customer quotations via Kettle and BAPIS to SAP.
    It was a custom made plug-in and did not found the way to open-source ;-(

    XSL Transformations are available as a job entry since Kettle 3.0 ... better organized in the XML category and therefor easier to find in the upcoming 3.1GA. ;-)

    Some more plug-ins (e.g. an adapter for Salesforce) can be found over here:
    http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/List+of+Available+Pentah...

    When there is some need for a special adapter, it's pretty easy to create a custom made plug-in. When you have questions about this, let me know and I can help out with more information.

    Also, we are very interested in your needs - so feel free to create a feature request for anything that is missing:
    http://jira.pentaho.org

    Hope this helps - greetings from Jens to Jens
    • 17 Aug 2008, 10:20 pm