Kettle

Dear Kettle friends, The other week Jens and I were wondering how long it had been since I first started coding the current version of Kettle.  So I started a thorough computing forensics investigation leading to the discovery of a  backup of the first ever version of Kettle. The date that comes

Dear Kettle friends, For a while now we’ve been getting requests from users to support a system called “Data Federation” a.k.a. a “Virtual Database”.   Even though it has been possible for a while to create reports on top of a Kettle transformation ... [More] , this system could hardly be considered a virtual anything since the Pentaho reporting engine runs [...] [Less]

Dear Kettle friends, For a while now we’ve been getting requests from users to support a system called “Data Federation” a.k.a. a “Virtual Database”.   Even though it has been possible for a while to create reports on top of a Kettle transformation, this system could hardly be considered a virtual anything

Dear Kettle friends, For a while now we’ve been getting requests from users to support a system called “Data Federation” a.k.a. a “Virtual Database”.   Even though it has been possible for a while to create reports on top of a Kettle transformation, this system could hardly be considered a virtual anything

Dear Kettle friends, Thursday May 10th, in a few days, I’ll be joining my friend Kasper Sørensen (the founder and lead architect of DataCleaner, a Human Inference data profiling project) in our web seminar (webinar).  We’ll be going over a bit of ... [More] history, our cooperation model as well as the architecture behind the new data quality features. Register here: http://www.pentaho.com/resources/events/20120510-better-data-for-better-analytics/ Kasper [...] [Less]

Dear Kettle friends, Thursday May 10th, in a few days, I’ll be joining my friend Kasper Sørensen (the founder and lead architect of DataCleaner, a Human Inference data profiling project) in our web seminar (webinar).  We’ll be going over a bit of history, our cooperation model as well as the architecture behind

Dear Kettle fans, Today I’ll be joining Eric Kavanagh and Jim Ericson on the DM Radio show for an episode titled “On the move: Why ETL is here to stay”. If you’re interested in listening in, don’t forget to register at the landing page over here. All the best, Matt

Dear Kettle fans, Today I’ll be joining Eric Kavanagh and Jim Ericson on the DM Radio show for an episode titled “On the move: Why ETL is here to stay”. If you’re interested in listening in, don’t forget to register at the landing page over here. All the best, Matt

Dear Kettle fans, Today I’m really excited to be able to announce a few really important changes to the Pentaho Data Integration landscape. To me, the changes that are being announced today compare favorably to reaching Kettle version 1.0 some 9 years ago, or reaching version 2.0 with plugin support or even open sourcing Kettle [...]

Dear data integration fans, I’m a big fan of “appropriate” data modeling prior to doing any data integration work.  For a number of folks out there that means the creation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse model in classical Bill Inmon style.  Others ... [More] prefer to use modern modeling techniques like Data Vault, created by Dan Linstedt.  However, the [...] [Less]