By Tim Levine and Paco Nathan
At IMVU, our leaders are increasingly leveraging data to inform decisions. In response to this we have embarked on leveraging an off-the-shelf business intelligence solution to enable ready access to data. Considering our needs, present and future, and the personality of the company we have deployed a commercial version of Pentaho. Using this suite, we have been able to provide fresher data (daily refresh versus monthly), more interactive data (using ROLAP cubes), and newly processed data (30-day rolling of usage).
Our success has gotten to the point where we would like to contribute and draw from the larger community and so we will be hosting a meetup of those interested in open source business intelligence. To RSVP, please click through the meetup.com link below.
Title:
Silicon Valley Open Source Business Intelligence Meetup
Organizer:
Tim Levine and Paco Nathan
Date and Time:
Thursday, September 15, 2011
7:30-9:30pm
Location:
IMVU Corporate Headquarters
100 W. Evelyn Ave #110 , Mountain View, CA
Cost:
No cost
Food and drink:
Food and drinks will be provided
Agenda:
1 Food and networking
2 Introductions around the room, find burning questions
3 Tim Levine and Paco Nathan will present on how Pentaho fits into our technology stack to solve problems involving little and Big Data alike. Specifically how we use Pentaho to fetch, munge, and report data as well as bringing in R and hadoop in the AWS cloud to provide otherwise impossible insights.
4 Discussion of burning questions
5 Solicit ideas for next meeting, decide on frequency
6 Announcements
Link to event on meetup.com
Silicon Valley Open Source Business Intelligence Meetup