About half a year ago we received an exciting inquiry from Jos van Dongen on behalf of him and his co-author Roland Bouman, telling us that they where writing a new book about Open Source Business Intelligence and in particular Pentaho-based solutions. And for this they where looking into DataCleaner for the data profiling section of the book!

The book is now out! It's called "Pentaho Solutions" and it's published by Wiley Publishing. You can read  about it and buy it on their website as well.

The book contains a walkthrough for building a data warehouse using Open Souce tools and in doing so applying DataCleaner for the important job of profiling and validation.

We congratulate Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen for their great work to promote Open Source Business Intelligence and thank them for mentioning DataCleaner while they're at it!

The  Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) have published an interesting, unbiased and independent analysis of the market for Open Source business intelligence products. We are delighted to see that the article features a section about data quality and that TEC points at DataCleaner as a competent choise within the open source products:

In such situations, where the vendor does not support a specific functionality,
organizations can look to complementary open source solutions; the DataCleaner
project from eobjects.org, for instance, provides functionality to help profile
data and monitor data quality. It also points to a significant advantage with
open source applications: the fact that software is developed by the community
and for the community makes it much simpler to share innovative solutions
quickly and seamlessly.

You can read  the whole article by Anna Mallikarjunan from TEC by going to their website (user registration is required).

Dear everybody,

As a special christmas present we have been working hard to design a new website for DataCleaner! Hopefully you will all enjoy the new site, which have been designed to further support our community and let it grow by incorporating more features to socialize and share ideas online. So go visit it now at the new URL:

•  http://datacleaner.eobjects.org

Among the new features are a more  personal profile system which is linked to some of the communities that our users already use frequently, namely  LinkedIn and  SourceForge. We have a whole new  media section with cool screenshots and webcasts. We are also redesigning our  mailing list structure. Instead of the single mailing list that we have been using so far, we are launching new "announcement" and "dev" mailing lists.

Our goal is to continuously launch new features on the website. The first one being a  user survey to gain a better insight into the minds of our users and community. So be sure to fill it out. In the future we will add more exiting features such as online sharing of regular expressions and reference data for DataCleaner dictionaries.

The  old website will continue to exist, but primarily as a wiki and bugtracking system. During the next couple of days we will be editing the wiki pages to make them more suitable for wiki-style editing (by everyone) as opposed to the former readonly strategy.

We hope you like our christmas present and that you will  let us know. and we wish you all a great 2009. Without a doubt, it will bring exiting times for DataCleaner and the DataCleaner community.

Great news everybody. The Open Source Days '08 conference in Copenhagen will feature a so-called Lightning Speak by Kasper Sørensen on the topic of DataCleaner and the eobjects.org community.

We're really happy to get the message of DataCleaner out to more people and a conference like this is an ideal spot for demonstrations, discussions and experiences. Read more about the lightning speak at Kasper's blog:

•  http://kasper.eobjects.dk/2008/09/presenting-datacleaner-at-open-source.html

Update: The presentation is over and you can now also read the retrospective at Kasper's blog:

•  http://kasper.eobjects.dk/2008/10/fast-as-lightning.html