System monitoring, memory, partitioning, CPU balancing and disk arrays are all part of making the ETL performance of your Pentaho Data Interchange fast and efficient. System monitoring is a critical first step and catch all for performance issues. As the amount of your data grows, processing the data becomes more of a challenge and can …

C-store operators always ask the best way to save time and make more money. Here are three reasons measuring improves our results: 1. Clarify what is important 2. Understand how we compare 3. Justify financial rewards So you want to know how you measure up. The old saying that you don’t know where you are …

We are delighted to announce the pending birthday of our newest addition to the BandyWorks family.  Vanessa Vinodh Kumar was born March 04, 2013.  Mom and Dad are as proud as can be!

Extract, transform and loading is a necessary part of many Big Data jobs. We use tools to do it faster and cheaper to move the work to the dashboards and analytics to get results. Read The Full Blog Here

The Latino’s have coached accountability for two generations. Since the 70’s the Reliability Center has guided clients to the source of problems to pro-actively eliminate errors and increase production. BandyWorks Big Data team helps to manage the software to make this happen. Read The Full Case Study Here

Matthew Shoup of LinkedIn provides an insightful way to interpret the ‘Big’ in Big Data. No one cares about the ‘Big’ unless there are results. This approach puts the focus where it matters. Read More From His Post Here

What I learned as a child makes a culture of accountability easy. My family taught me everything I needed to know to create a culture of accountability. Growing up, a set of values and rules governed our lives. These tenets fit well into the six items that exists within a culture of accountability. Vision / …

Redefining ‘Big’ in Big Data – Action, Ideas and Results. Matthew Shoup of LinkedIn provides a wonderful set of ways to interpret the ‘Big’ in Big Data. It is not so much the quantity of data that is important for many companies but rather what is done with it. While having lots of data is …

Since Pentaho is free and PDI is so easy, our team no longer will use any stand-alone SQL as part of our extract transform and load (ETL) process. Many times we have determined that we only need to extract the data ‘one time’. Inevitably, we need to run it again or something very similar. It …

I had the good fortune to attend a Sheetz vendor meeting at which Joe Sheetz, the next CEO shared a bit of the history regarding the company’s valuable brand. He discussed how the brand was built ‘accidently’ rather than by a marketing plan. That is, it was created without specific intent. As I listened, I …

BandyWorks Sheetz VIP Vendor 2013 Tom Bandy received the award at the distribution center in Altoona, Pa. Each year the IT team shares their goals for the next year and recognizes vendors who helped them in the current year. Steve Winegardner, Programming Services Manager at Sheetz stated that he appreciated the flexible work and willingness …

Entrepreneur Magazine features Tom Bandy – How to Overcome Your Fears. The article shares his extensive experience with multiple technology companies. Naturally, the article on fear addresses the emotions of start-ups. Of course, high risk creates fear. He shares the challenges  overcome by many entrepreneurs. Four decades of data analytics drives innovation. Fear is a …