Matt Casters

Matt Casters
Kettle Project Founder, Pentaho

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Matt Casters is the founder and lead developer of the Kettle open source ETL project. Matt has extensive experience in business intelligence, lives in Belgium, is a big proponent of open source and works for the Pentaho corporation.

Sessions

11:55am–12:40pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Starring Sakila: Data Warehousing Explained, Illustrated, and Subtitled
Architecture and Technology, Business and Case Studies, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Migration
 Location: Ballroom F Level: Intermediate
Roland Bouman (XCDSQL Solutions / Strukton Rail), Matt Casters (Pentaho)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Lately there's been a lot of talk about MySQL-based business intelligence and datawarehousing. But what does it all really mean? What's behind the BI/OLAP/ETL alphabet soup, and what in heavens name are star schemas, facts and dimensions? Using the Sakila sample database as material, this session will explain what data warehouses are, what problems they solve, and how they are designed and built. Read more.
11:55am–12:40pm Wednesday, 04/22/2009
Cloud Computing with MySQL and Kettle
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
 Location: Ballroom D Level: Intermediate
Matt Casters (Pentaho)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
This presentation explores what cloud computing means beyond being a buzz-word and touches upon the various scenarios where MySQL and Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) can be deployed on a large number of hosts to process data in parallel. Read more.

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O'Reilly Media MySQL/Sun Microsystems
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  • Virident
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Intel
  • Advanced Micro Devices
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  • Calpont
  • Canonical
  • Continuent
  • Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
  • Facebook
  • HiT Software, Inc.
  • IBM
  • iDashboards
  • Oracle
  • Pentaho
  • R1Soft
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SQLstream
  • Ticketmaster
  • Zmanda, Inc.
  • Linux Journal

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