Innovent Solutions Blog

News and views on building powerful Search and Business Intelligence solutions.

Search is Broken

How many times have we heard that yelled in our general direction? Search engines, and their teams, are only as good as the data they are given. This is true for all search engines, for all time, regardless of any machine learning algorithms or other bells and whistles they may contain.

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Quick Reporting From the Cloud With Lambda and Pentaho

We were recently engaged to come up with a simple way to generate Pentaho reports on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Our client had already created the reports with Pentaho, but preferred not to deploy a full Pentaho BI Server on an EC2 instance. As it happens, this was an excellent opportunity to employ a Lambda function.

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The Eclipse BIRT Project is Alive!

Congratulations to the Eclipse Foundation BIRT project team on reviving the project and for its continued development. We’re excited to contribute to BIRT’s progress as the leading open source reporting and data visualization project.

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