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Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Capabilities to Further Fuel Widespread Adoption
Jan 30, 2012

OpenBI is proud to be a significant part of the Pentaho Big Data team. We are already tackling big data projects with Pentaho's technology and having success with our clients. Pentaho's Big Data technology makes the world of Hadoop programming more readily accessible to BI developers. ETL expertise can now translate into Hadoop Map Reduce and data programming skills. Pentaho simplifies reporting access to data in HDFS, Hive and a wide variety of NoSQL databases like HBase, Cassandra and MongoDB enabling big data sources and your data warehouse to be available via a unified BI platform. Find out more here.

Follow Steve's weekly blog on Information Management
Follow OpenBI's Steve Miller each week as he comments on analytics, statistics and, occasionally, some baseball.
Jan 31, 2012 -- Out With the Old RAM ...
Jan 24, 2012 -- Applications of R in Business
Jan 17, 2012 -- Analytics in the End Zone
Jan 10, 2012 -- Data Science Maturity

Top Information Management blogs of 2011
“LinkedIn Advances Business Analytics – SAS vs. R” by Steve Miller, OpenBI

A blog by OpenBI's Steve Miller, “LinkedIn Advances Business Analytics – SAS vs. R,” was named as the most popular blog post for 2011 by Information Management. Steve blogs weekly for IM on analytics, BI and data science.

OpenBI represented on judging panel for Applications of R in Business contest
View all the competition entries

Steve Miller represented OpenBI on the judging panel for the Applications of R in Business contest. Revolution Analytics awarded $20,000 in prizes to the best examples of applying R to business problems. View the competition entries at: inside-r.org/category/tags/contest.

UseR!2012 Conference
June 12-15, 2012 -- Nashville, TN

OpenBI's Steve Miller is happy to join the Program Committee for useR!2012 conference which will take place in Nashville on the Vanderbilt campus next June. The conference will feature tutorials or whole-day short courses from field experts. A major goal of the useR! conference is to bring users from various fields together to provide a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas.