I really hope Pentaho makes a compelling product. But they have a long road ahead. They’ve incorporated projects that were developed independently, use different methods for accessing data and do not share the same quality in the code base. The programs will change and users that build to one version will find their tools broken upon the next version release. That’s part of the practical downside of open-source. Until the product has matured, it will be a moving target.
Hamburg is in a good location for German logistics and in an especially import/export driven region. I find it fascinating that a company sees opportunity by looking at global logistics volumes. It makes the world seem so much smaller. Click here
Business Objects is producing video training as podcasts. It’s sooooo easy to produce podcasts and even easier to make product demos in general. Eventually any vendor worth talking to will open their product to demos and evaluations.
Following up on an earlier post: Someone has taken the visual display of the American federal budget and turn it into an interactive AJAX-enabled, zoom-enabled website. The original image had to be complete and readable which meant extra large dimensions. Now you can fly across it like a Google or Yahoo map.
Dubai Logistics City (DLC) continues it’s expansion.
Lack of Iraqi logistics is an obstacle to returning troops.
Click here for the article. My charts look like this when I put dimensions in the wrong place.
These are 8 socio-economic stats for over 3,700 counties in the U.S.
It takes shape with software from ADVIZOR Solutions:
SAP is also mentioned in the article. I think it could make sense for any one of them. They all have offerings that “compete” with BO, but none are as fully featured.
A new version of Democracy TV platform is out. Democracy integrates some basic technologies to create an intuitive, exciting media platform. Channels are simply published RSS feeds, typically with links to Torrent files of a broad array of media formats. Users of Democracy distribute the media content to other users. This means that anyone can build a channel without the need for large servers to host media and coordinate content delivery.
But you don’t need to understand any of this to get the benefit — an easy-to-use, flexible, adaptive, collaborative and ingeniously democratic entertainment center.
