Manoj R Patil - Pentaho for Big Data Analytics

Manoj R Patil is the Chief Architect in Big Data at Compassites Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. where he overlooks the overall platform architecture related to Big Data solutions, and he also has a hands-on contribution to some assignments. He has been working in the IT industry for the last 15 years. He started as a programmer and, on the way, acquired skills in architecting and designing solutions, managing projects keeping each stakeholder's interest in mind, and deploying and maintaining the solution on a cloud infrastructure. He has been working on the Pentaho-related stack for the last 5 years, providing solutions while working with employers and as a freelancer as well.

Manoj has extensive experience in JavaEE, MySQL, various frameworks, and Business Intelligence, and is keen to pursue his interest in predictive analysis.

He was also associated with TalentBeat, Inc. and Persistent Systems, and implemented interesting solutions in logistics, data masking, and data-intensive life sciences.

Thank you Packt Publishing for extending this opportunity and guiding us through this process with your extremely co-operative team! I would also like to thank my beloved parents, lovely wife Manasi, and two smart daughters for their never-ending support, which keeps me going. Special thanks to my friend Manish Patel, my CEO Mahesh Baxi for being inspirational in my taking up this project, my co-author Feris for being committed in spite of his busy schedule, reviewers for reading the book and giving meaningful commentary and reviews, and to all those who directly/indirectly helped me with this book.

Finally I would like to extend an extra special thanks to Mahatria Ra for being an everlasting source of energy.

Feris Thia is a founder of PHI-Integration, a Jakarta-based IT consulting company that focuses on data management, data warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions. As a technical consultant, he has spent the last seven years delivering solutions with Pentaho and the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform across various industries, including retail, trading, finance/banking, and telecommunication.

He is also a member and maintainer of two very active local Indonesian discussion groups related to Pentaho (<>) and Microsoft Excel (the BelajarExcel.info Facebook group).

His current activities include research and building software based on Big Data and the data mining platform, that is, Apache Hadoop, R, and Mahout.

He would like to work on a book with a topic on analyzing customer behavior using the Apache Mahout platform.

I'd like to thank my co-author Manoj R Patil, technical reviewers, and all the folks at Packt Publishing, who have given me the chance to write this book and helped me along the way. I'd also like to thank all the members of the Pentaho Indonesia User Group and Excel Indonesia User Group through the years for being my inspiration for the work I've done.

Rio Bastian is a happy software developer already working on several IT projects. He is interested in Data Integration, and tuning SQL and Java code. He has also been a Pentaho Business Intelligence trainer for several companies in Indonesia and Malaysia. Rio is currently working as a software developer in PT. Aero Systems Indonesia, a company that focuses on the development of airline customer loyalty programs. It's an IT consultant company specializing in the airline industry. In his spare time, he tries to share his experience in developing software through his personal blog >.

Paritosh H. Chandorkar is a young and dynamic IT professional with more than 11 years of information technology management experience in diverse domains, such as telecom and banking.

He has both strong technical (in Java/JEE) and project management skills. He has expertise in handling large customer engagements. Furthermore, he has expertise in the design and development of very critical projects for clients such as BNP Paribas, Zon TVCabo, and Novell. He is an impressive communicator with strong leadership, coordination, relationship management, analytical, and team management skills. He is comfortable interacting with people across hierarchical levels for ensuring smooth project execution as per client specifications. He is always eager to invest in improving knowledge and skills.

He is currently studying at Manipal University for a full-time M.S. in Software Design and Engineering.

His last designation was Technology Architect at Infosys Ltd.

I would like to thank Manoj R Patil for giving me the opportunity to review this book.

Vikram Takkar is a freelance Business Intelligence and Data Integration professional with nine years of rich, hands-on experience in multiple BI and ETL tools. He has strong expertise in tools such as Talend, Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Big Data-MongoDB, Oracle, and MySQL. He has managed and successfully executed multiple projects in data warehousing and data migration developed for both UNIX and Windows environments.

Apart from this, he is a blogger and publishes articles and videos on open source BI and ETL tools along with supporting technologies. You can visit his blog at www.vikramtakkar.com.

His YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/vtakkar. His Twitter handle is @VikTakkar. You can also follow him on his blog at www.vikramtakkar.com.