BI Solutions sometimes are required to do more than analyzing data, you can use that information to act upon the outside world and close the loop. During this presentation we will see how to use Sparkl, a plugin that has just been released, enabling to easily create screens that allow you to take actions. During this demo the Mongo DB plugin from Pentaho will be leveraged to show how we can even integrate with NoSQL databases. Pedro Martins - Head of Implementations, @Webdetails - Pentaho

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We want to be able to present it
We want more of that
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Supported through services
Increasing engagement through community
Presenting them: Marketplace
Some will be deprecated, some will be popularity

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Leveraged the capabilities
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The customer got extremely
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We’ll be opening new markets
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the perceived next big thing
after big data.
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Sparkl, or Pentaho App Builder,
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that sits on 2 major cornerstones:
Ctools and PDI, aiming to leverage
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existing stack. Anyone familiar
with those tools will be able
to build plugins, facilitating
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Sparkl and Sparkl apps will,
at the current stage, be supported
by services entirely, not impacting
Support nor Engineering.
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By giving Sparkl to the community,
we'll promote the creation of new
content, contributing for a fitter,
happier, more productive
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Once we have several different
applications, making them
available to users becomes
a fundamental step. Marketplace
is the answer for that, providing
visibility to the work done
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11. Some will be deprecated,
some will be popular
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Some will be deprecated, while
others may be so popular that we
to include them in the product.
And we need to be prepared for
that. Since it's contained
functionality, it's easier to test and
QA. Since it's based on well
controlled technologies, it's easier
to support. And we'd be building a
better product based out of
successful use cases.
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12. Some will be deprecated,
some will be popular
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One of the challenges we would
need to face would be to embrace
Ctools to the list of supported
software, as it's the visual engine
for both Sparkl and The Art of the
Possible. We already have that
challenge now.