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Pentaho at Leipzig University
Bachelor students at Leipzig University, Germany had the chance to get in touch with the Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite. In June 2008, they could attend a one-day training covering the essential parts of the platform. The training has been prepared by a student assistant and myself with the help of a Pentaho representative in Germany. During this 8-hour course the following Pentaho modules were introduced:
- Data Integration with Kettle covering data flows, safe mode, database connections, basic steps, JavaScript steps,
- Report creation with Report Design Wizard and Report Designer,
- Data Analysis with the Analysis View Toolbar (JPivot interface) and basic MDX queries, and
- Customizing Dashboards.
With the help of Pentaho it took about 2-3 weeks full-time to prepare the course. The overall feedback of the participants was very positive. It was the first attempt to educate students with enterprise open source software. I think this is all very promising and it is clear: if open source vendors want to compete with commercial ones they have to make sure that future users and decision makers get in touch with their software as early as possible. Commercial vendors pursue this strategy with academic programs, like SAP with University Alliances and the SAS Academic Club. Let’s see what open source vendors will do.
If you are interested in educating your students with Pentaho please feel free to contact Pentaho or me. I’ll gladly share my experience and try to answer your questions.
Pentaho at Leipzig University
