Category: Big Data

In our earlier blog, we learned how to do Metadata injection using Pentaho. In today’s article, we’ll learn how to integrate Pentaho (.prpt) reports with a web application. Typically, to generate reports, it requires working with Pentaho report designer and deploying “.prpt” file onto BI server. But what if we want to use Pentaho reports inside different types of web applications? This article will serve as a tutorial to integrate your .prpt report...

Big Data is an opportunity in sports to enhance players' professionalism and defining an unbeatable strategy to meet the expectations. Since the inception of big data in sports, data scientists have started using this latest data-driven technology to utilize its power and gather the large volume of data to analyze and build game theories. Because of the vast data collected from multiple channels, the sports industry has touched new heights in terms of improving players’...

NoSQL offers multiple benefits for the development of next generation of applications in the era of Big Data. The new applications, use cases, and data needs have many times outgrown the legacy RDBMS model and require a different type of engine, which are fulfilled by NoSQL.

Metadata injection facilitates user to define the metadata at run time. E.g. defining a mapping of excel columns to fields at run time based on various parameters. Pentaho’s most popular tool, Pentaho Data Integration, PDI (aka kettle) gives us a step, ETL Metadata Injection, which is capable of inserting metadata into a template transformation. So instead of statically entering ETL metadata in a step dialog, you can pass it dynamically. This feature certainly plays an...

Big Data expands opportunities to target potential customers effectively and identify the most valuable and potential customers. This data repository fuels predictive analysis to widen the scope of improvement. Big Data is moving to all industries, and to identify the right information for business success, an analytics solution can help to gain customer insights and operate efficiently.