Pentaho Community Meeting 2017

A big thank you to the 200 participants from 40 different countries who made Pentaho Community Meeting a great event!

On this page you find all resources: presentations, videos and pictures.

A summary of the event and all presentations can be found in our blog.

Pentaho Community Meeting celebrated its 10th anniversary this November with a 3-days event full of presentations and networking. And it-novum had the honor to host the event together with Pentaho. PCM17 took place in Mainz where everything started in 2008. 

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This was the agenda for Pentaho Community Meeting 2017 in Mainz

Friday, November 10 | Hacks & Snacks - hackathon and technical short talks

06:00 PM – open end
Location address: Lomo, Ballplatz 2, 55116 Mainz
We met at Lomo to start the three-day PCM in a cozy wine cellar lounge with a hackathon, technical short talks and drinks. Due to the big number of technical proposals submitted we have introduced “Hacks & Snacks”: after the hackathon there were technical short talks. After two hours, a highly esteemed jury awarded the most intelligent/awkward/funny hacks.

07:30 PM - 07:40 PM:   SSBI (Self Service BI) - Pentaho Plugin, Pranav Lakhani | Business Analyst at SPEC INDIA

07:40 PM - 07:50 PM:   Viz API 3.0 Use Case, Joana Avelar | Consultant at Pentaho

07:50 PM - 08:00 PM:    CDE new SVG Component, João Barbosa | Consultant at Pentaho

08:00 PM - 08:10 PM:    Deploying Pentaho using Puppet, Kleyson Rios | Solutions Architect at  Pentaho

Saturday, November 11 | Conference Day

09:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Location address: Kupferbergterrasse, Kupferbergterrasse 17-19, 55116 Mainz
After the welcome speech by Stefan, Pedro and Jens, everybody splits up to join the business or the techie track.

The agenda at a glance

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM:    Registration and welcome snack (in front of room Bismarck)

09:30 AM - 10:00 AM:    ALL meet in room Bismarck for the joint morning session

1. Welcome Speech
2. Keynotes:

• 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM:    All about Pentaho 8.0, Pedro Alves | Senior Vice President Community at Pentaho
• 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM:    What’s new in PDI 8.0?, Jens Bleuel | Sr. Product Manager Data Integration at Pentaho
• 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM:    What’s brewing in the Pentaho Labs?, Matt Casters | Chief Architect, PDI Kettle Project Founder at Pentaho
• 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM: Introducing Pentaho on the Hitachi Vantara Community , Jill Ross | Enterprise Community Manager Hitachi Vantara
• 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM:    CERN's Business Computing Accelerated by Pentaho, Jan Janke | Deputy Group Leader of Administrative Information Systems at CERN

Group picture is taken in front of stage, right before lunch

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM:    Lunch break

01:30 PM - 03:30 PM:    Everyone splits into Business and Technical Tracks
Technical Track (Room Bacchus / Business Track (Room Chardonnay)

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM:    Coffee break

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM:    Technical Track (Room Bacchus) / Business Track (Room Chardonnay)

06:00 PM - 06:15 PM:    Closing Note

07:30 PM - 09:30 PM:    Dinner (Room Bismarck)

Everyone who’s not tired after a full day of data injection is welcome to join us in a pub in Mainz (November 11 is carnival season start)!

Technical Track (Room B)

 

Business Track with Use Cases (Room C)

Sunday, November 12 | Social Event

10:30 AM
Brunch at Café Heiliggeist (Rentengasse 2, 55116 Mainz)

FAQs

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Curious to see how it all started?

Have a look at some fun photos from the first PCM in 2008! And try to find out who from 2008 will again join in 2017 :)

About the organizers of this year’s Pentaho Community Meeting

About Pentaho

Pentaho is the leading open source platform for data integration, business analytics and visualizations for thousands of organizations worldwide. Pentaho offers analytics solutions up to 90% cheaper than traditional big data and business intelligence vendors.

Pentaho supports enterprises in making the right decisions on operational and strategic levels. As the only platform both for business intelligence and big data Pentaho offers a comprehensive solution for data integration, analytics, data mining, reporting and dashboards plus a mobile app.

With Pentaho you can easily extract, transform and visualize data from big data stores via one single platform. Pentaho processes data up to 15 times faster than comparable solutions. This helps to drastically reduce the time for creating, developing and providing big data analytics solutions.

Do-it-yourself Big Data Analytics for Business Analysts

Business analysts depend on their IT department for analyzing data. Pentaho’s „Streamlined Data Refinery“ architecture enables business users to do on-demand analyzes of big data. In Pentaho, they can mix big amounts of different data, blend it with other data sources and load it in Pentaho Analyzer. Analyzes are automatically generated and published in the user’s format of choice. Business analysts benefit from a wide range of reports, dashboards and visualizations for self-service analytics.

About it-novum

it-novum’s business intelligence and big data department is specialized on integrating and enhancing open source business solutions, f.e. for data integration and data warehousing, reporting and analytics. We are a full service provider including consulting, proof of concepts, workshops, implementation and support.

To deliver the best and most flexible solution to our customers we use Pentaho, the leading open source platform for data integration and business analytics. Pentaho offers solutions that are up to 90% cheaper than traditional big data and business intelligence vendors.