On May, 16th 2018, Hitachi Vantara released Pentaho 8.1 Although this is a minor follow-up release to 8.0 as far as version numbers go, but nevertheless a lot of new exciting features and improvements have been added.
My views on BI after one year in the trenches
After having worked for about a year as a Business Intelligence consultant, I’d like to explain my views on the subject. At know.bi, we mainly work with the commercial open source BI platform Pentaho, so I’ll use that as a reference, but this post should apply to BI in general and is not meant to be limited to any given platform.