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Archive for January, 2008

Dublin Bus and PALO ETL - the connection!

Posted in AmazonAWS, BI, ETL, Palo, S3, SQLite, SimpleDB, Talend, VBA, excel, kettle, olap, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Dublin buses, as is the norm with most road-based public transport systems in our increasingly car-choked cities, tend to operate on the basis of “no sign of a bus for ages, then two or three arrive at the same time”. Palo MOLAP ETL options appear to be following the same pattern; we’ve been waiting for [...]

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PALO ETL-Server and SAP

Posted in ETL, Palo, olap, tagged , , on January 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Jedox have just published a roadmap for their open-source ETL-Server, release date of March 2008, same date as the next release of the Palo OLAP Server. In a future release they intend to offer SAP RFC/BAPI and SAP-BW XMLA support, being an old SAP hand this looks very interesting.
There’s also a features page [...]

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CouchDB = IBM’s SimpleDB and S3 ?

Posted in AmazonAWS, S3, SimpleDB, cloud, data, tagged , , on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

What if you’re a major player in the IT world and suddenly the internet’s equivalent of your local bookshop releases a mould-breaking cloud-based database service, SimpleDB. This is on top of Amazon’s highly acclaimed document data store service, S3!
Well, if you’re IBM you hire Damien Katz the person behind CouchDB. I think 2008 [...]

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PALO ETL Server, more sightings …

Posted in ETL, Java, Palo, olap, tagged , , , , on January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

First day back after Christmas, snow falling outside.
More additions to the PALO ETL-Server SourceForge project, new version of the core and, a new web server - built using Jetty and Apache Axis. Axis is a SOAP handler so I looked around for the WSDL file to see what services are to be exposed and [...]

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