Date:   Apr 04/16/13 7:56 PM
Subect: NEJUG Meeting: Big Data and Business Intelligence - Thu, May 9
From:   Mark Johnson


Date:      Thu, May 9

Topic:     Big Data and Business Intelligence
Presenter: Virgil Dodson
Location:  Constant Contact

Register now to reserve your seat

As always the doors will open at 5pm for networking, pizza provided by Constant Contact
will arrive around 5:30pm, and the presentation will take place at 6pm. Come early meet
someone new and ensure you get a good seat.

Presentation Overview:

This session will explore the big data scene as it relates to business intelligence.
We will explore who’s using Big Data for BI, what applications are being created,
and what benefits are being realized. We’ll go hands on with the Eclipse Business Intelligence
and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, which now offers native support to Hadoop through Hive queries.
We’ll also cover how BIRT can access other Big Data sources such as Cassandra and MongoDB so developers
can display their data in a stylized tabular or graphical nature which is extremely customizable using the BIRT designer.
These reports can include dynamic drill through, interactivity, and can be exported to various formats,
such as PDF, HTML, XLS, and ODT. This session will cover in detail how to retrieve and visualize data
from Big Data sources using BIRT.

About the presenter:

Virgil Dodson is the Director of Evangelism at Actuate Corporation and works with a team of developers
assisting BIRT users on the BIRT Exchange community site.  Virgil has worked at Actuate since 2001
and has travelled around the world to various developer conferences evangelizing BIRT and related Actuate technology.

As always, I want to take a moment to thank our sponsors:

    Special thanks to Constant Contact for pizza, water, and our wonderful meeting location
    Contegix for hosting our website
    Hello2morrow for their raffle contribution of a Sonargraph-Architect personal license
    VMware for VMware Fusion licenses for raffle

Mark Johnson

President, NEJUG
email:markfjohnson@gmail.com