Hi. The story: I quite like Pentaho. I live in Australia and have a small consulting business serving small to medium sized businesses. My workload is growing fast, particularly in migrations of core systems to cloud accounting/supply chain stacks.
Pentaho is really effective tool once you've learnt MDX; I've been using it for a few years and a recent survey of alternatives lead me back to Pentaho.
But I find it very hard to look after. I find upgrading beyond a nightmare: I just can't work out how to do it (migrate my "repository" of queries). I have never, ever worked out how to upgrade from one version to the next, not for hours of trying.
I also find setting it up a bit challenging, particularly on Windows.
I have asked Pentaho how much an enterprise version would cost, but I never get a reply despite several requests over the years. I suspect that my client base, with one or two users per business, would not fit the enterprise business model. I need something priced accordingly to this client base (so fees of a few hundred dollars are ok, but not thousands).
So at the moment, only the developers of the Saiku plugin have ever received any money from me & my client (apart from an excellent tutorial in the community dashboard I bought once).
So I wonder if I can pay an expert to help me look after Pentaho CE. This would be knowledge transfer: I want to learn as well as get things done. It would be for specific jobs, not an ongoing monthly fee. I would prefer to fund someone working Pentaho CE development.
Right now, I have a 5.1 community edition which has mysteriously just stopped working. The log files indicate that the jackrabbit repository is readonly, although there are many entries in the log. This happened spontaneously and there is almost no chance it was due to administrator activity on the windows server; I think maybe corruption. I need help to migrate to 6.0.1 (which also means a move to 64 bit java). The repositories are using the defaults: they don't use an underlying SQL database. The instructions to do that look very complicated, and I have no idea if they would make migrations between versions easier.
If there is any interest, please reply here or to tim@growthpath.com.au
I'd pay with PayPal.
Pentaho is really effective tool once you've learnt MDX; I've been using it for a few years and a recent survey of alternatives lead me back to Pentaho.
But I find it very hard to look after. I find upgrading beyond a nightmare: I just can't work out how to do it (migrate my "repository" of queries). I have never, ever worked out how to upgrade from one version to the next, not for hours of trying.
I also find setting it up a bit challenging, particularly on Windows.
I have asked Pentaho how much an enterprise version would cost, but I never get a reply despite several requests over the years. I suspect that my client base, with one or two users per business, would not fit the enterprise business model. I need something priced accordingly to this client base (so fees of a few hundred dollars are ok, but not thousands).
So at the moment, only the developers of the Saiku plugin have ever received any money from me & my client (apart from an excellent tutorial in the community dashboard I bought once).
So I wonder if I can pay an expert to help me look after Pentaho CE. This would be knowledge transfer: I want to learn as well as get things done. It would be for specific jobs, not an ongoing monthly fee. I would prefer to fund someone working Pentaho CE development.
Right now, I have a 5.1 community edition which has mysteriously just stopped working. The log files indicate that the jackrabbit repository is readonly, although there are many entries in the log. This happened spontaneously and there is almost no chance it was due to administrator activity on the windows server; I think maybe corruption. I need help to migrate to 6.0.1 (which also means a move to 64 bit java). The repositories are using the defaults: they don't use an underlying SQL database. The instructions to do that look very complicated, and I have no idea if they would make migrations between versions easier.
If there is any interest, please reply here or to tim@growthpath.com.au
I'd pay with PayPal.