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Jens: ActiveX to Java; SAP Connector Overview


Rob (Red Dolphin): XML-SAX Input Performance

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  • Define business value - give effort weight to stories. Weight new Pentaho features for your project!
  • Have to have confidence in, and accept, the Pentaho developers coding styles.
  • Largest pain point: building distributions. Should be helped with dependency management, repackaging in 2.0.
  • Maven, Ivy well received
  • ACTION ITEM: Request for better communication from sprint standups - suggestion to webcam the standups. Really want major decision points from technical teams.
  • ACTION ITEM: Communication on version releases is definitely not clear.. need more real time info on release direction. New branches showing up need to be explained, so community knows what they are for, what value they bring.
  • Remote sprinting, scrumming is a partial process at best.

Giovanni: ETL Case Studies

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  • Pharmaceutical reporting
  • ETL - SAP inputs; - process, reporting in MS Access
  • Telecom ETL

Julian: Mondrian Scema Changes and Roadmap

  • Quick coverage of 3.0.3, 3.0.4, upcoming 3.1 releases
  • Short demos: JPivot; Halogen
  • Request from Julian for Halogen contributors
  • Coverage of Aggregate Designer
    • Automatic aggregate table builder; ui, command line
  • Discussion of metadata \ schema compatability

Matt: Kettle and Metadata

  • Quick coverage of 3.1 via Kettle 3.1 demo
  • ACTION ITEM: Create JIRA case for olap4j datasource in Kettle

Tom: Pet Projects

  • Live DVD; run from DVD or will install to hard drive
  • Can build custom solution repository, and burn back to DVD
  • Ability to customize USB key with custom solution repository; mount the USB key, refresh repository and run server with new repository.
  • Has SWT UI for setting key configuration parameters
  • Suggestions for expansion -
    • automated updates

Ben: How to Document Kettle ETL

  • How to retrieve documentation from transformations
  • Case: complex set of 5 levels of transformations
  • All transformations and jobs MUST be stored in Kettle repository for solution to work
  • Use Kettle transform to pull trans\job metadata from Kettle repository.
  • Parses Kettle metadata to HTML files.

Andrea: Statistical BI

  • Company of statiticians
  • 3 steps to gain accurate statistical knowledge:
    1. data quality
    2. avoid statistical abuse
    3. quality results
  • CRM, questionnaire experts
  • Use vtiger for CRM
  • This guy has no effing point; who let the damn marketing guy in the room??
  • Data mining and statistics need to work together?

Ingo & Pedro: Community Dashboard Framework

  • Reduce the programming necessary for creating Pentaho dashboards
  • Introduced component for dashboard; can automatically gen some pieces of dashboards
  • Open Layers\Open Maps wrapper for Google Maps replacement
  • Dashboard library (Javascript API for dashboard building and display)
  • Demo of component libraries; link for Community Dashboard Framework
  • This is the defacto dashboard framework and API to date;
  • ACTION ITEM: Hook Mike Tarallo up with the community dashboard framework for gallery samples

Thomas: Pentaho Reporting

  • Quick coverage of the reporting version plan
  • Overview of Pentaho Reporting Engine 0.8.10