-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 when doing BI you want a flat data info, not relationships, I agree. so in essence the complete layout of ofbiz does not allow for fast access of meta data. the was addressed by generating flat structure entities that represent the warehouse data needed Like in most systems I have dealt with there is a nightly build of the data for use for reports the next day. Similar to the table add code in ofbiz is a entity build for the flat files.
Why, well for the one reason I came on board with ofbiz ease of maintenance. :D David E Jones sent the following on 4/8/2009 2:40 AM: > > Why would you ever want to have Pentaho run through the Entity Engine? > In general stand-alone reporting and BI tools like Crystal Reports, > Business Objects, etc, etc are much better when they talk directly to > the database. > > It is true that long ago we did some stuff so that JasperReports could > run through the Entity Engine, but honestly I think it made JR _less_ > useful instead of more... > > -David > > > On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:25 AM, BJ Freeman wrote: > > I shudder every time some one calls ofbiz a database application. > it takes a lot of work to integrate something that only deals with a > database to work with the entity engine. > So if you have a patch that converts pentaho to the entity engine then > Please share, I would be interested. > > Michael Xu (xudong) sent the following on 4/7/2009 10:41 PM: >>>> hi Tim, >>>> >>>> Actually, pentaho technically can integrate with all database >>>> applications. >>>> But point here is pentaho is ready in opentaps but not in ofbiz. When I >>>> consider which one to go with if BI is a must, I still prefer opentaps. >>>> >>>> No offense. Just list my simple reason here :-) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Michael Xu (xudong) >>>> www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) >>>> 135 0135 >>>> 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Tim Ruppert >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> If I were you, I'd probably talk with others in the community rather >>>>> than >>>>> moving to opentaps. There are people who have integrated pentaho into >>>>> Apache OFBiz successfully too. I think that Marco Risaliti - one of >>>>> the >>>>> committers here did - but I can't remember if it was him for sure. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Tim >>>>> -- >>>>> Tim Ruppert >>>>> HotWax Media >>>>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com >>>>> >>>>> o:801.649.6594 >>>>> f:801.649.6595 >>>>> >>>>> ----- "Michael Xu (xudong)" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> hi Thuan, >>>>>> >>>>>> You can take a look at opentaps, which is on top of ofbiz. And >>>>>> opentaps >>>>>> supports pentaho. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Michael Xu (xudong) >>>>>> www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) >>>>>> 135 0135 >>>>>> 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Vu Hong Thuan <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> I see that the reports in ofbiz is very simple. >>>>>>> I want to integrate third-party report into ofbiz. I prefer >>>>>> pentaho. >>>>>>> Could you give me some suggestion about the integration. >>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ3HdjrP3NbaWWqE4RAuboAKCymgkPWJev4GFl2D8gyPZgPOzXogCgqJlY tpF1l+O4GOriq1VPtEA34ec= =zgpL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
