A Guide to Building a Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solution in the Cloud

Learn from industry expert Dave Reinke of OpenBI, LLC, a leading systems integrator focused on open-source and cloud-based BI. Dave will share his experience working with customers doing "BI in the Cloud."

The webinar will cover:

• Cloud overview - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• Op-Ex vs. Cap-Ex project funding
• Technology selection
• Provisioning BI hardware and software in the Amazon EC2
• Explaining how the demo was created and lessons learned
• Live Demo - putting it all together
  • Pentaho open-source ETL and BI reporting for the Cloud
  • Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud
• New BI opportunities enabled by the economic advantages of cloud computing (2-3 min)

Guest speakers will include Lance Walter, SVP of Marketing at Pentaho and Omer Trajman, Sr. Director for Cloud and Visualization at Vertica.

Should Your Business Intelligence Be in The Cloud?

Find out directly from cloud computing luminary Bernard Golden. Bernard is the CEO of Hyperstratus and Author of "Virtualization for Dummies," how cloud computing can help your firm. He discusses the increasingly attractive opportunity to deploy enterprise software applications on a cloud-based infrastructure.

Attend this event to learn:

• Why organizations are adopting cloud computing
• How cloud computing can help you save time and money
• How to avoid impacting your capital expense spending by choosing Cloud Computing and open source BI

What's New in Pentaho Version 3 -- A Complimentary Techcast

Drive Down Business Intelligence Costs Even Further And Deliver Greater Functionality to Your Users.

Watch this recorded Techcast to hear what's new in Version 3 of Pentaho's commercial open source BI suite and see the latest business user capabilities in a live demonstration.

By participating in this free online event, you will learn:

• How user-friendly business intelligence can be with self-service dashboards from Pentaho
• How Cloud-based BI deployments can help drive down the upfront costs of BI even further
• How Pentaho's community-powered model is accelerating innovation and delivering enterprise-class BI at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions

Jared Cornelius, Product Marketing Manager at Pentaho, will review the new features in Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 3 and also provide a live demonstration of the new capabilities from a business user's perspective.

BI In the Cloud - Lower Cost, Faster Deployment

Hear Bernard Golden, CEO of Hyperstratus and author of "Virtualization for Dummies" and Bryan Senseman, Founder and partner at OpenBI, a leading systems integrator focused on open source business intelligence, speak about the increasingly attractive opportunity to deploy enterprise software applications on a loud-based infrastructure.

High Performance ETL Using Cloud and Cluster-based Deployment

With Pentaho Data Integration you can scale out large data volume processing in the cloud or on premise. Pentaho Data Integration 3.2 (PDI) provides advanced clustering and partitioning capabilities that allow organizations to "scale out" their ETL deployments instead of "scaling up" on expensive single node machines. Data volumes grow consistently, but batch loading windows have remained the same adding risk to any data warehouse. Scale out capabilities in PDI can reduce this risk in addition to being exceptionally cost effective compared to proprietary solutions. In this webinar we review the effective performance of PDI clusters to determine their suitability for processing hundreds of billions of records across clusters of 10s of nodes.

View our recorded webcast to learn more

The Evolution of Open Source and the Implications for BI

Join Ron Powell as he Interviews Zack Urlocker and Lance Walter, regarding recent developments in open source software, what the future holds, and what it means to the BI market.

Speakers:
Ron Powell, host and Co-founder & Editorial Director of the BeyeNETWORK, Zack Urlocker, Vice President of Lifecycle Marketing at Sun Microsystems and former Vice President of products at MySQL, the leading open source database, Lance Walter, Vice President of Marketing, Pentaho

The VAR Guy Live: Google Apps and the Amazon Cloud - Real SaaS Opportunities for VARs?

During the webcast you will hear from Pentaho Partner, OpenBI, regarding how they deployed Pentaho's open source BI application in the Amazon Cloud for a leading health care company.

Join this webcast to learn about:

• The business opportunities and challenges for VARs embracing Google Apps, Amazon Web Services, and open source SaaS and Cloud options
• SaaS and Cloud recurring revenue models and margins
• How to maintain customer control when you offer third-party services

If you are a VAR, MSP or solutions provider that needs a SaaS and cloud strategy, this webcast is your chance to learn about the benefits (and challenges) that await you.

Open Source BI & DW: The Smart and Safe Alternative in a Struggling Economy

Join us to listen to this engaging and interactive webcast as Mark Smith, CEO & EVP Research at Ventana Research and open source leaders Miriam Tuerk, CEO of Infobright and Lance Walter, VP of Marketing from Pentaho explore the following:

• Understand how open source for BI and DW is a viable option
• How to "try before you buy" to prove the capabilities, save time and improve your chances of success
• The cost advantages to commercial open source
• How to assess your TCO for BI & DW
• How open source for BI and DW really works (see it in action!)

Discover Data Warehousing Nirvana with MySQL, Kickfire and Pentaho

Learn how you can achieve Nirvana with Pentaho's end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) software running on Kickfire's optimized data warehousing appliance. This purpose-built MySQL solution delivers critical data to all organizational levels and does it 10-100X faster.

Join us for this webinar to hear BI/DW experts from Pentaho and Kickfire explain how their joint solution:

• Provides comprehensive reporting, analysis and dashboards
• Delivers exceptionally high performance
• Eliminates costly tuning
• Offers a true appliance with plug and play features

Hear customer success stories and a watch a live demonstration to see the full range of capabilities first-hand.

BeyeNetwork interview of Pentahoto determine its technology direction for 2009

Dr. Claudia Imhoff's interview of Jared Cornelius, Product Maretkting Mananger at Pentaho, at the Fall TDWI Conference in New Orleans, to:

• Review the new features in Version 2 of Pentaho Enterprise Edition
• Discuss how the Pentaho platform was architected from the beginning as flexible, easy to use and own, business intelligence suite
• Recap Pentaho's four-year history

Dr. Claudia Imhoff Interview's Pentaho at the TDWI World Conference to determine its 2009 plans

Dr. Claudia Imhoff interviews Lance Walter, VP of Marketing at Pentaho, at the Fall TDWI Conference in New Orleans, focusing on a quick overview of Pentaho and where Pentaho sees the most growth and what end users can expect from Pentaho in 2009.

Simplify and Speed Data Sharing Participation

Pentaho, Sypherlink and Carahsoft invite you to a complimentary webcast to understand the benefits of data sharing participation. Join this webcast to learn how we help agencies to:

• Conform to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)
• Support applications for grant funding, which is increasingly tied to NIEM conformance
• Protect investments made in existing standards, systems and infrastructure
• Manage and control access to data and systems
• Share law enforcement data with other local, state and federal agencies

Open Sesame: What You Need to Know about Open Source BI and Data Warehousing

Register now to hear Dr. Imhoff explain the data behind her just-published white paper on the industry's adoption of open source BI and data warehousing. This complimentary Webinar will be a one-hour master class on the current trends in open source BI, and you'll get our Open Source Business Intelligence: A 2008 Progress Report just for registering.

Key data points from her white paper include:

• According to Aberdeen, 25% of survey respondents will adopt open source BI in next 12 to 24 months
• For the first nine months of 2007, open source deal flows doubled each quarter
• Sun has made a significant commitment to open source with its $1 billion purchase of MySQL

Database Trends and Applications BI Survey Results

Watch this archived webcast to get the results from Database Trends and Applications latest BI survey. This complimentary, one-hour event will give you the information you need to make the right BI decisions for your business. The study focuses on BI tools and platforms and was conducted by Unisphere Research to shed light on evolving adoption and licensing strategies for Business Intelligence solutions. Unisphere's Lead Analyst Joseph McKendrick will walk you through the survey results and answer audience questions.

Pentaho Delivers Greater Simplicity and Scalability in New Business Intelligence Suite

Watch this webcast to learn more about the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 2, to find out what is new and see a technical demonstration of the Pentaho User Console, Pentaho Data Integration Enterprise Console and the Aggregation Designer.

Mozilla Transforms BI with Pentaho and Vertica

To help out-think and out-execute the competition, companies must enable more people to make faster, data-driven decisions based on rapidly growing volumes of data.

Watch this on demand webacast to learn about the business intelligence platform Mozilla Corporation uses to support the management of some of the world’s largest collaborative, open-source development projects such as the Firefox web browser.

By Watching You will learn about:

• How Mozilla uses BI to support collaborative open-source software development
• The technology on which Mozilla’s BI platform is based:
• Open-source data integration and BI software from Pentaho
• Grid-based, column-oriented analytic database software from Vertica
• How using Pentaho and Vertica together transform the economics of BI

The on demand recording will feature a demo so you can witness for yourself the benefits of Pentaho’s open-source BI Suite working with Vertica’s innovative high-performance analytic database.

Is Your Current BI Environment Compatible with Open Source BI

How to implement an open source business intelligence (BI) solution in a closed source environment

Join industry expert Claudia Imhoff on this BeyeNetwork webcast to learn how to implement an open source business intelligence solution in a closed source environment. The format will be a 5-section interactive conversation between Claudia Imhoff and Lance Walter, VP of Marketing for Pentaho Corporation, discussing the benefits and challenges of adopting open source business intelligence. Each section will focus on industry trends and feedback from a BI Survey conducted by the BeyeNetwork.

Grow Existing European BI Deployments at Lower TCO with Open Source

Most European businesses currently enable just 10-20% of the possible BI stakeholders and are holding back from offering BI to more users, frequently due to costs, complexity, and integration issues.

Join this webcast to learn how your peer organizations who already own proprietary BI from vendors like Oracle, Business Objects, Cognos, Informatica and others, have deployed commercial open source business intelligence, side-by-side in their existing BI deployments, as well as for new users and projects. You'll learn about how they've used open source business intelligence to deploy more rapidly, with lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Operational Business Intelligence on a Budget

The goal of Operational BI is to put relevant information into the hands of front-line employees in the context of their normal daily work processes. Many organizations have recognized the potential value of Operational BI, but high costs, complex technology, and unforeseen change management issues have slowed or stalled their initiatives.

Get an understanding of how open source adoption and operational BI are creating new opportunities for European firms. European industry analyst perspectives as well as European customer examples will provide insight into market dynamics and best practices to achieve operational business intelligence throughout your organization.

Grow Existing BI Deployments at Lower TCO with Open Source

Most businesses currently enable just 10-20% of the possible BI stakeholders and are holding back from offering BI to more users, frequently due to costs, complexity, and integration issues.

Watch this on demand webcast to learn how your peer organizations who already own proprietary BI from vendors like Oracle, Business Objects, Cognos, Informatica and others, have deployed commercial open source business intelligence, side-by-side in their existing BI deployments, as well as for new users and projects. You'll learn about how they've used open source business intelligence to deploy more rapidly, with lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Taking the Wheel of Your BI Strategy —
Are You the Driver or the Passenger?

Know Your Options Before You Make Your Next BI Move

Are the dramatic business intelligence (BI) market changes of the past year driving your BI strategy? In order to keep delivering BI benefits for your organization, you need to learn how to regain control, balancing the art and science of BI. To develop your clear, low-risk strategy, you need to overcome the challenge of change in the market and in your suppliers. Join our webcast to learn how.

Federal Agencies: Taking the Wheel of Your BI Strategy —
Are You the Driver or the Passenger?

Know Your Options Before You Make Your Next BI Move

Are the dramatic business intelligence (BI) market changes of the past year driving your BI strategy? In order to keep delivering BI benefits for your organization, you need to learn how to regain control, balancing the art and science of BI. To develop your clear, low-risk strategy, you need to overcome the challenge of change in the market and in your suppliers. Join our webcast to learn how.

Commercial Open Source BI for OEM Development Executives

Integrated business intelligence (BI), such as reporting or analysis capabilities have become an expected and essential component in almost any software application, whether the functionality is delivered as traditional packaged software or via a SaaS model. Solution providers seeking to add these capabilities to their applications have traditionally faced a hard tradeoff; forced to either build and maintain their own BI technology and drain precious engineering resources from their core business, or to sacrifice margins to integrate expensive traditional BI software. With commercial open source business intelligence from Pentaho, the rules of the "build versus buy" decision have dramatically changed. These market-disrupting changes include:

• A modular, standards-based architecture designed for embedding
• No licensing fees which lowers the cost to embed and deploy
• A significant time-to-market advantage versus homegrown BI technology
• An open source model that allows you to modify and extend the code as needed

Commercial Open Source BI for OEM Business Executives

Technology firms which are not leveraging Pentaho's open source business intelligence for reporting, analysis, dashboards or data integration, are spending unnecessary time and money using expensive, less flexible, legacy software. With commercial open source business intelligence from Pentaho, the rules of the "build versus buy" decision have dramatically changed. These market-disrupting changes include:

• No licensing fees which lowers the cost to embed and deploy
• A modular, standards-based architecture designed for embedding
• An open source model that allows you to modify and extend the code as needed
• A significant time-to-market advantage versus homegrown BI technology

A Recipe for Pervasive BI in
an Uncertain Economic Climate

Listen or watch this one-hour educational Webinar featuring John Hagerty, Vice President and Research Fellow for AMR Research. John will explain how operational BI contributes to pervasive performance management and will offer advice on how to address the challenges of a consolidating BI marketplace. He will detail how open source BI can expand your choices, decrease your costs and risks and help integrate systems that are already working well for your enterprise. You'll see how your whole organization can enjoy the bountiful benefits of operational BI, even on a budget!

How Federal Agencies Can Achieve
Operational BI on a Budget

Join this webcast to:

• Learn - The benefits of Operational BI
• Hear - The experiences and successes of your piers who have delivered Operational BI with Pentaho BI Open BI Suite
• See - How to reduce TCO and avoid vendor lock-in via the commercial Open Source Model

Find out how NAVAIR, FDA, DISA, NFS, DOE, USGS have all benefited from Open Source BI from Pentaho. Obtain expert insight and learn best practices to help you achieve operational business intelligence throughout your agency from Data Warehousing to Business Intelligence functionality and performance. You will also learn how Pentaho and Carahsoft, Pentaho's Master Government Partner and GSA Schedule Holder, have the ability to provide an Enterprise Open Source BI Portfolio from an award winning and trusted Government IT Solutions Provider.

Learn how Open Source BI is changing the way people buy and own BI solutions

Lance Walter, Vice President of Marketing for Pentaho, explains why business intelligence buyers should consider open source, describes how Pentaho differs from other open source business intelligence companies and provides an overview of Pentaho.

BI & Performance Management for the Midmarket

Traditionally, Business Intelligence was thought of as a tool reserved for large enterprises with large IT budgets. Now, midmarket companies can now take advantage of BI tools tailored to the size of their organization. These tools give them increased visibility into their operations and this information can be effectively distributed to all key stakeholders. In this panel discussion, moderator Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research, will be joined by Caroline Seymour, AVP, Cognos; Dick Kuiper, Sr. Business Consultant for Lawson; John Kale, LogiXML's VP of Marketing and Lance Walter, VP of Marketing, Pentaho, for an informative discussion of how BI can be a critical component of growth for any size organization.

A Proven Prescription for Reduced Risk and BI Success

Choosing the right Business Intelligence solution can be confusing, expensive and lead to uncertainty. Please join Loma Linda University Health Care and Pentaho to learn how to avoid the three key risks when making your BI purchasing decision: technology risks, project risks and vendor relationship risks. The live case study by Loma Linda University Health Care will show why so many firms are choosing open source Business Intelligence (BI) to solve their BI issues.

ZipRealty Goes Open Source for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

Learn why ZipRealty, a national real estate brokerage, chose MySQL and Pentaho Business Intelligence, to help them better measure and optimize agent performance, customer satisfaction and marketing ROI. By combining Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MySQL database and Pentaho Data Integration, ZipRealty was able to obtain an integrated, strategic view across multiple operational systems while utilizing open source to greatly reduce overall TCO.

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BNSF Logistics Deploys Pentaho's BI Platform with Consulting Support from OpenBI

The B-Eye Network published a Community Spotlight on BNSF Logistics deployment of Pentaho's BI suite. The experts at OpenBI, a Pentaho Certified Partner, worked closely with BNSF Logistics to understand their business requirements and technology infrastructure to implement a highly-successful BI solution using Pentaho.

BI and a Bag of Tricks for Business

Moderated by Claudia Imhoff, President & Founder, Intelligent Solutions Inc., Today, enterprises are under serious scrutiny and pressure to reduce costs, simplify administration efforts and reduce the likelihood of project failures. The daunting challenge that still exists around security and the continually increasing volumes of data and numbers of users are making it extremely difficult for big business to maintain quick access to data, uphold productivity and performance, and keep up application and service response times.

Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite Bootcamp (UK)

Breadboard BI and Pentaho Corporation are organizing the first, hands on, workshop in the UK dedicated to providing an in-depth overview of the Pentaho Open Source BI suite.

The program will be spread over five days and will address the key steps for implementing the Pentaho Open Source BI:

• Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing Data Modeling
• The modules of the suite: Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Metadata Editor, Pentaho Report Designer Pentaho Analysis, Dashboard Designer
• Administration of the Pentaho BI Suite

We look forward to having you join us for the five day hands on technical Bootcamp.

Pentaho offers a range of training services, extending from standard offerings to tailored on-site training. Click here for a full list of courses.

Enroll two weeks in advance for any public training class and receive 20% off of the standard registration fee. To receive the 20% discount, payment must be received at the time of enrollment. Our public training courses are very affordable and the registration process is simple. Browse the list of courses below to find a date and location that will work for you. We look forward to helping make your BI projects successful.