{"id":180,"date":"2006-06-20T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/use-open-source-bi-win-a-mac-mini\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T02:00:49","slug":"use-open-source-bi-win-a-mac-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/use-open-source-bi-win-a-mac-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Open Source BI: Win a Mac Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow MySQL and Pentaho are presenting on how MySQL and Pentaho can work together to deliver exceptional value when used in combination to solve Business Intelligence and Reporting business challenges.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working more and more with MySQL over the past couple of months since joining Pentaho and I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 On the good side of the 80\/20 rule (ie, 80% of users want 20% of the features) it&#8217;s exceptionally &quot;good enough&quot; for things that I want to do.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the tagline.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Pentaho is highlighting our desire to be as easy to MySQL users as MySQL is.\u00a0 We want to understand how to make it increasingly easy to use Pentaho with MySQL.\u00a0 In return for providing Pentaho with much needed feedback on ease of use and the user experience for installation\/configuration Pentaho is giving away a Mac Mini.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no iPod, thank heavens, as everyone is giving those away these days.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:5px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadgetspy.co.uk\/wp-content\/photos\/minimacfront.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>10am PT, 1pm ET in the US.\u00a0 Register and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\/news-and-events\/web-seminars\/\">dial in here<\/a>.\u00a0 Read the press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaho.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=150&#038;Itemid=238\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow MySQL and Pentaho are presenting on how MySQL and Pentaho can work together to deliver exceptional value when used in combination to solve Business Intelligence and Reporting business challenges. I&#8217;ve been working more and more with MySQL over the past couple of months since joining Pentaho and I&#8217;m pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 On the good side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}