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KNOWAGE 8.1 RC now available!

The Release Candidate of KNOWAGE 8.1 is now available for download. Here follow the main novelties of KNOWAGE 8.1 RC.

• New data preparation module

• New administration panels look&feel for the admin

• New look&feel for end-user

• Theme management feature

NEW DATA PREPARATION MODULE

This new capability enables a certain degree of data manipulation in the self-service process, without asking for a traditional ETL process. The end-user can upload data or use an available data set, and then can easily customize the data structure and contents (group, split and merge data, apply filters, update contents, enrich or classify data, transform a continuous value into a discrete one or mask private data) without using external tools.

NEW ADMINISTRATOR AND END USER LOOK&FEEL

THEME MANAGEMENT FEATURE

This new feature allows the admin to create new themes to customize KNOWAGE overall look&feel.

Since KNOWAGE grows thanks to its open source community contributions, anyone is welcome to report issues on this Release Candidate here! Your feedback will contribute to the ultimate release of KNOWAGE 8.1, expected in the following months.

OW2 conference 2022

This year’s edition of the OW2 conference, held online on June 8-9, 2022, will focus on the main theme “Reliable and predictable Open Source“.

KNOWAGE will contribute to the event with two speeches:

On Wednesday 8 at 13:45 CEST, “KNOWAGE evolution on 2022“ held by Marco Cortella, KNOWAGE Consultant. He will present KNOWAGE constant evolution to help end users to look more clearly into their data and support them in the decision making process in an increasingly intuitive way. This talk will mainly focus on the new capabilities of the suite such as: new data preparation module and data federation in self-service process, augmented analytics to support every end-user touch point and provide automatic insights, usability and performance for a new effective UI,  a core offering as SaaS ABI solution.

On Wednesday 8 at 16:00 CEST, “Data analysis for enterprises with open source – KNOWAGE real use cases” will be held by Grazia Cazzin, KNOWAGE Director. This speech aims to highlight the benefits and strengths of open source solutions for enterprises and public administrations willing to gain relevant insights from their data. Different use cases will be presented in which KNOWAGE, the open source suite for analytics and business intelligence, enabled effective data analysis helping to achieve data-driven decisions.

OW2 community will gather togheter again for the OW2 15 Year Anniversary event, in Paris, on June 29-30. The event will be held within the Conference Cloud-Datacenter+Infra and will include:

  • Testimony talks
    • 1) 15 years of Engineering @ OW2, Daniele Gagliardi and Stefano Scamuzzo, KNOWAGE Labs – Engineering Group
    • 2) 15 years of Sat4j @ OW2, the value of an open source community for an academic software, Daniel Le Berre, University d’Artois
  • Round table on Open Source Governance
  • OW2 Best Project Awards ceremony
  • Social event

OW2 is the European open source community event powered by OW2 Consortium and sponsored by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.

More about OW2con22: https://www.ow2con.org/view/2022/

More about OW2: https://www.ow2.org/

More about KNOWAGE: https://www.knowage-suite.com/

Reliable and predictable Open Source - OW2con22

Review KNOWAGE

KNOWAGE users can now leave their review about the software on Capterra, the world’s leading software reviews and selection platform.

If you use KNOWAGE and know its functionalities, please let us know what you think and write a review on our Capterra profile. We value your feedback.

Submit the review choosing your own language:

English  –  Dutch  –  French  –  German  –  Italian  –  Portuguese  –  SpanishJapanese

You’re highly welcome to forward this page to any colleague or friend you know might be using KNOWAGE!

Join next KNOWAGE webinars

KNOWAGE webinars are held live by professionals of KNOWAGE Labs to facilitate the discover the full analytical capabilities of the suite, to support an keep up to date our open source community and the network of partners and supporters.

Go to the webinars page

 

On May 2022:

“KNOWAGE OVERVIEW: full analytical capabilities overview” with Nunzia Marotta, KNOWAGE Consultant:

join this webinar to have a complete overview of the full stack of analysis that you can perform with KNOWAGE, the open source and full capabilities suite for analytics and business intelligence.

 

Interactive dashboards: best practices and hints from real use cases” with Isabella Iennaco, Data specialist and KNOWAGE Consultant:

join this webinar to learn how to create a professional interactive dashboard from zero and how to add more analytical capabilities to your already built dashboards.

Go to the webinars page

 

On the same page, you can also watch the reply of our most valued public talks and the recording of previous KNOWAGE webinars.

KNOWAGE webinr are provided by KNOWAGE Labs, sometimes in collaboration with partners with a vertical market experience or a relevant use case to share.

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KNOWAGE is now available on AZURE Marketplace!

KNOWAGE is now available on AZURE Marketplace: this Marketplace is the premier destination for all software needs – certified and optimized to run on Azure.

Visitors to AZURE Marketplace can use the AZURE Marketplace 1-Click Deployment feature to quickly launch pre-configured KNOWAGE.

KNOWAGE provides integration with Azure Sign-In for authentication purposes, i.e. users can login into KNOWAGE using their Azure accounts.

Visit KNOWAGE page on AZURE Marketplace

 

Highlights from EUdataviz2021

On 23 and 24  November 2021, EU DataViz provide the opportunity to share experiences and latest trends in open data and data visualisation. Online from Luxembourg to the world, the event was organised by the Publications Office of the European Union as part of the EU Open Data Days

The conference is funded by ISA2 programme of the European Union, bringing together the open data and data visualisation community, including policymakers, researchers, academia, private entities, students and citizens interested in the power of open data as a factor determining our future.

KNOWAGE contributed to the event with the talk: “Data visualization on mobile devices – issues and best practices from a real use case in the public sector“.

Starting from our experience in the health sector in Veneto Region (Italy) during this pandemic, Marco Cortella (KNOWAGE Data visualization Specialist) and Davide Vernassa (KNOWAGE UX and Front-end Developer) illustrated some of the challenges and possible solutions in the creation of dashboards and data visualizations designed to be primarily usable by mobile devices.

You can watch the recording of their talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHd7SVNuTmQ

SFSconf21 highlights

The South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFScon) is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences promoting the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region.

This year, SFScon 2021 took place on Friday, 12th November and Saturday, 13th November 2021 in blended mode.

KNOWAGE joined the The South Tyrol Free Software Conference with the aim to promote the new version of the open source analytics and business intelligence.The new functionalities of KNOWAGE 8 allow to integrate advanced and increasingly customized analyses in decision-making processes in a simple and rapid way.


KNOWAGE collaborated with Ow2, sharing a common booth and contributing to OW2 track with the talk “The open source solution for data analysis in the age of digital transformation”. The synergy between OW2 and KNOWAGE in this event, certainly was a good example of collaboration between companies and organizations to make open source a powerful resource for everyone.

Here the links to view all KNOWAGE recorded talks:

KNOWAGE 8 – the open source solution for data analysis in the age of digital transformation“.

Community, Cooperation and Co-business with open source“.

– “Data analysis for enterprises with open source – KNOWAGE real use cases

ABOUT OW2

OW2 is an independent community dedicated to promoting open source software for information systems and to fostering their business ecosystems. OW2 federates 50+ organizations and 2500+ IT professionals world wide. OW2 hosts 50+ technology Projects.

>> Discover OW2 community

KNOWAGE 8 is now available!

KNOWAGE 8 is now available for download at this page. The new release brings many significant new features and general improvements. Among the most important: the widget gallery, the function catalog and the resource manager.

>> Download KNOWAGE 8

THE WIDGET GALLERY: the administrator/developer can create templates for widgets (html, custom chart and R/Python) using the Gallery management. The end user can create a new widget choosing from the templates available in the widget gallery tab. The widget gallery can also be imported/exported among different environments.

THE FUNCTION CATALOG: the user can browse predefined R/Python scripts to add advanced analytics in the main widgets. It is possible to save own scripts to reuse it later. The function catalog can also be imported/exported among different environments.

THE RESOURCE MANAGER: the administrator can now directly manage resources (ML models, Talend processes, geographic layers, dossier templates, BIRT and Jasper translations, html pages) via web console, without the need to connect to the server.

Furthermore, KNOWAGE 8 is available not only in English, French and Spanish, but also in German, American, Portuguese and Chinese.

Since this version, KNOWAGE can natively access to Google Spanner and Azure Synapse Analytics data sources.

In the end, KNOWAGE 8 authentication is allowed also via Google IAM and Azure AD.

>> Download KNOWAGE 8

The upgrade of previous KNOWAGE installation to this new release is highly recommended.

>> Upgrade now

Discover KNOWAGE thanks to the new serie of webinars held by KNOWAGE Labs. Reserve now your seat!

>> Our free webinars

EU Dataviz Conference 2021

EU DataViz is an international conference on open data and data visualisation addressing the needs of the public sector across the EU. Online from Luxembourg to the world, it is organised by the Publications Office of the European Union as part of the EU Open Data Days. The conference is funded by ISA2 programme of the European Union. 

This free online conference on 23 and 24  November 2021 will provide the opportunity to share experiences and latest trends in open data and data visualisation. EU DataViz will bring together the open data and data visualisation community, including policymakers, researchers, academia, private entities, students and citizens interested in the power of open data as a factor determining our future.

Book your spot now!

Knowage talk has been selected among 151 submissions from 47 countries. Marco Cortella (KNOWAGE Data visualization Specialist) will present with Davide Vernassa (KNOWAGE UX and Front-end Developer) the talk: “Data visualization on mobile devices – issues and best practices from a real use case in the public sector“.

Data visualization techniques allow providing end user with relevant information and insights in the most effective way. At the moment, the vast majority of companies and public entities visualize data through charts and dashboards conceived as desktop solutions and large screens or for print. However, the usage of content from mobile devices has been growing rapidly and is necessary to enable the access to reliable information in an easier and more interactive way. User interactions on desktop and mobile is deeply different and depends on the different screen sizes, so knowing how to adapt the data visualizations conceived for large screen to smaller ones is a fundamental asset.
Starting from our experience in the health sector in Veneto Region (Italy) during this pandemic, we would like to illustrate some of the challenges and possible solutions in the creation of dashboards and data visualizations designed to be primarily usable by mobile devices.
This pandemic period showed us the limitations, exclusions and misleading behind visualizations: taking inspiration from these cases, we will present the state of the art of data visualization on mobile and how it can evolve to meet the needs of users according to our experience.

For more information, please visit: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudataviz/home

Here the highlights of the last edition: https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/eu-dataviz-digest/

Free Software Conference 2021

The South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFScon) is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. SFScon promotes the use of Free Software in digital infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region. The festival gathers together decision-makers and developers from all Europe.

This year, SFScon 2021 will take place on Friday, 12th November and Saturday, 13th November 2021 in blended mode.

>> Join the event!

KNOWAGE will exhibit together with OW2 Consortium with a joint stand. Furthermore, KNOWAGE Labs will give three talks, aiming to promote the new capabilities of KNOWAGE 8.

– On November 12th, at 12:20 CEST
In OW2 TRACK, Davide Zerbetto (KNOWAGE Business Developer) will hold the talk “KNOWAGE 8 – the open source solution for data analysis in the age of digital transformation“.

This talk will present the last version of KNOWAGE, the open-source suite for analytics and business intelligence powered by the OW2 community. KNOWAGE 8 collects all recent efforts and will bring new rich pre-built components within dashboards, an expansion of the in-cloud offer and many new functions aiming to further enhance user experience.
This talk will address the importance of an effective data visualization and analysis as well as the detailed presentation of the new innovative functions of the last version.

– On November 12th, at 16:40 CEST
In COMPANIES TRACK, Noemi Maglio (KNOWAGE Business Developer) will hold the talk “Community, Cooperation and Co-business with open source“.

This intervention aims to illustrate how to do open source in an industrial way by developing a sustainable business model. The experience of KNOWAGE, the open source suite for analytics and business intelligence, will be shown to highlight how community, cooperation and co-business are key element to make open source a real business enabler.

– On November 13th, at 09:40 CEST

In the PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & GIS track, Grazia Cazzin (KNOWAGE Director) will hold the speech “Data analysis for enterprises with open source – KNOWAGE real use cases

This talk aims to highlight the benefits and strengths of open source solutions for enterprises and public administrations willing to gain relevant insights from their data. Different use cases will be presented in which KNOWAGE, the open source suite for analytics and business intelligence, enabled effective data analysis helping to achieve data-driven decisions.

KNOWAGE is joining the Free Software Conference together with other OW2 Community projects, with the aim to promote this association and the capabilities of its projects.

>> Browse the full program

>> Discover KNOWAGE 8

>> Here the highlights of last year’s Free Software Conference