This Event was held on February 4th, 2010
Is now open the registration for the 1st Pentaho Seminar (Open Source BI) in Portugal. The event will happen on February 04th and will be organized by Xpand IT.
Target: End-Customers - Partners, IT Managers, Business Development and Developers
What you will see
The most powerful Opensource BI technology in action . Success Cases . Pre-Built Frameworks . Industry / Vertical Solutions . Integration with other Enterprise Systems (SAP) and lots of Demos.
Technologies:
- Pentaho Enterprise Suite
- Kettle . Mondrian . Weka Opensource Projects
- Integration with SAP
- Opensource Column Store Databases
- Dashboards . Reporting
- ETL Tools
AGEnda
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9h
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Reception & Welcome |
| 9h15m |
Myths and Misconceptions of Open source BI
It will discuss the common reasons companies have been hesitant to consider open source in the past and how Pentaho quells these myths and misconceptions to prove itself to be a very low cost viable alternative to the BI megavendors of the world. It will include an overview of Pentaho from a corporate perspective and will provide a brief roadmap for 2010.
Sharmila Wijeyakumar - Pentaho Territory Sales Manager, Europe South
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| 10h |
How to be Agile in your BI development
Developing a Business Intelligence solution has a lot of challenges. Information must be gathered from complex operational systems managed by different departments, data quality must be analyzed and the key performance indicators are in constant change driven by market evolution. Overcoming these challenges requires frequent adaptation and inspection. Learn how agile methodologies can be applied to the development of a BI solution and help you achieve success on your BI project.
Ricardo Pires - Xpand IT Business Intelligence Division Manager
Paulo Lopes - Xpand IT Business Development Manager
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| 10h20m |
Pentaho Data Integration: Simple, Easy, Scalable and Performant ETL (includes live demo)
Gathering data and placing it on the data warehouse is a key component of a Business Intelligence solution. Pentaho Data Integration is a full featured tool that enables developing and executing ETL processes through a rich graphical user interface. In this presentation discover all the benefits of using this tool and how it can help you developing ETL processes.
André Simões - Xpand IT Business Intelligence Consultant |
| 10h55m | Coffee Break & Networking |
| 11h15m |
Delivering information with reports and dashboards (includes live demo)
In the competitive organizational world, having data is not enough, you need it fast and you need it just right for your company needs. Users can not be efficient without a proper decision support system that delivers information thoroughly and at the right time. The way this information is presented to end-users is one of the most important requirements in a BI system. This presentation will show you how to achieve this easily using Pentaho.Ricardo will also presente Pentaho mobile features - Integration with iPhone & Android phones
Ricardo Pires - Xpand IT Business Intelligence Division Manager
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| 11h45m |
Raising the bar with Open Source Column Store based DBs (includes live demo)
Nowadays, not only you need information, but you need it to be provided fast and promptly at end-users needs. With the common relational databases, managing performance can become a problem with massive amounts of data stored. How can you overcome this? Column store databases! In this presentation you will learn about column store databases, the open source market options, and given live performance examples of the real gains.
André Simões - Xpand IT Business Intelligence Consultant
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| 12h05m |
Success Case - Using Pentaho to build Near-Realtime Dashboards
António Amador - Brisa Inovação
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| 12h30m | Open Discussion, Q&A, Networking |
HOW TO REGISTER
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Submit your information using the Event Form in the left side of this page "PENTAHO EVENT REGISTRATION"
- Call us directly to +351 21 896 71 50 (Ask for Mr. Paulo Lopes or Dial Extension 1449)
- send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the following information (Name, Company, Phone , Email)
IMPORTANT - The seats are limited. Your registration will only be confirmed if you recieve a confirmation email.
Extra Documentation
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| Pentaho Overview | Reporting + Dashboards | ETL - Data Integration |
About PENTAHO
Pentaho Corporation is the commercial open source alternative for Business Intelligence (BI). Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration / ETL, data mining and a BI platform that have made it the world’s leading and most widely deployed commercial open source BI suite. Pentaho provides support, services, and product enhancements via an annual subscription that can lower total cost of ownership by 90% compared to traditional, proprietary BI offerings. Since its 2004 founding as the pioneer in open source BI, Pentaho's products have been downloaded more than five million times, with production deployments at companies ranging from small organizations to The Global 2000. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.
About Xpand IT
Based in Portugal with several customers accross the world, we provide the top IT knowledge for our customers, so they can focus on their core business and still have the best IT resources for their company needs, seamless integrated into their business processes. We identify ourselves as a Team with Passion for Excellence, and we differentiate our services by having the best people with the best expertise in the following areas: Business Process & Integration, Business Intelligence, Enterprise RFID, Enterprise Mobility, IT Systems, Enterprise Applications. For more information, visit: www.xpand-it.com
