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Knowage 8.0 RC now available!

The Release Candidate of Knowage 8.0 is now available for download. From the previous version 7.4 the following changes have been made:

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

• A new Google SPANNER data source is available, the user can create Cockpit using SQL data set on Google SPANNER tool
• A new Azure Synapse Analytics data source is available, the user can create Cockpit using SQL data set on Synapse Analytics tool
• Knowage can be configured with Google IAM and Azure AD
• Upgrade to Tomcat 9 AS
• More supported languages (USA, Portuguese, Chinese and German)

WIDGET GALLERY

The widget gallery enables the reuse and share of already/built html, custom chart and python widgets.

FUNCTION CATALOG

This function allows to add advanced analytics in the main widgets of a cockpit.

DOWNLOAD KNOWAGE 8 RC

Since Knowage grows thanks to its open source community, anyone is welcome to report issues or bugs on this Release Candidate on the bug tracker!


The ultimate Knowage 8.0 version will be released in September 2021.

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OW2con Event Highlights

For the second year, the OW2 conference, has being held as an online open source event. The event involved 45 speakers representing 15 countries with the main focus on the theme “Leveraging the European Open Source Ecosystem“.

Knowage Labs joined the event with two speeches. On Wednesday 23, Davide Zerbetto, Knowage Architect, showcased in exclusive preview the new upcoming features of Knowage 8, the main release that will be available by the end of July. On the same day, Marco Cortella, Knowage Consultant presented two real success stories in big data exploitation in healthcare and energy market.

>> Watch the full event recording on You Tube!

During OW2 conference, the OW2 Quick App initiative was launched. This is an open collaborative effort by members of OW2 and other contributors lead by Huawei to promote the Quick App technology, an industry-grade implementation of the W3C MiniApp standard. The standard allows advanced services to be made available on mobile phones without having to first install an application.

Moreover, OW2 community announced that it joined forces with the Eclipse Foundation, OpenForum Europe, and Foundation for Public Code towards the OSPO Alliance whose mission is to foster awareness of open source in Europe and internationally and promote the OSPO methodology developed by the OW2 Good Governance initiative.

In the end, the winners of OW2 awards have been announced: LemonLDAP Tool Box won the Community Award, XWiki the Market Award and Zenroom the Technology Award!

More about OW2con21: https://www.ow2con.org/view/2021/

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

More about Knowage: https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/

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Open Source Systems 2021

The 17th International Conference on Open Source Systems will take place online on May 13th, 2021.

OSS2021 aims at providing an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry, and the public sector, and diverse FLOSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and practical experiences.

VIEW THE RECORDING!

The Industrial Track will be chaired by OW2 and will include 8 talks.

9.30 AM CEST | Open source experiences in AI and DataViz for manufacturing market – Grazia Cazzin, Engineering

In the manufacturing industry the large amount of data – made available from IoT – needs to be properly collected, analysed and visualized in order to be transformed into useful information. The present speech introduces two different use cases in which Dataviz enabled AI and Machine Learning over data coming from IoT platforms. In these use cases, different open source technologies have been combined with the aim of creating the best environment in which the expertise of data scientists fits the needs and requirements of business users. The first use case is about predictive maintenance with the Rule (residual useful life) estimation in an industry 4.0 scenario. The second use case covers the energy market and deals with energy consumption in buildings.

9.50 AM CEST | Building a sustainable and ethical business model on top of Open Source : the case of XWiki – Clément Aubin, XWiki
10.10 AM CEST | OSS License compliance with the FASTEN project – Michele Scarlato, Endocode
The business story of the Melodic project – Konrad Wawruch, 7Bulls.com
10.30 AM CEST | RIOS (Rete Italiana Open Source): an open source business association – Stefano Pampaloni, RIOS
10.50 AM CEST | City of Paris: a journey to open source – Philippe Bareille, City of Paris
11.10 AM CEST | Real world impact on adopting an Open Source software strategy in a global automotive company – Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Erik Lönroth, Scania CV
11.50 AM CEST | Top 10 challenges of the open source ecosystem – Cédric Thomas, OW2

VIEW THE RECORDING!

The full program of Open Source Systems 2021: https://www.oss2021.org/program/program-oss-2021

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OW2 conference 2021

For the second year, the OW2 conference, is going to be an online open source event. On June 23-24, 2021 the European open source community gathers for two days of presentations and break-out sessions around the main theme “Leveraging the European Open Source Ecosystem“.

OW2con21!

The world needs a vibrant European open source ecosystem. As open source software has become mainstream how do we ensure it creates long-term value for all and enables good jobs and digital sovereignty across societies? The growth and sustainability of the ecosystem depends on the success of its stakeholders: open source projects and developers, open source foundations, systems integrators, software vendors, and users. We all play a part through our technology choices, our best practices, our engagement with other players. We each have a vested interest in the well-being of other stakeholders. OW2con’21 will address the many challenges of ensuring a sustainable European open source ecosystem.

OW2 website

Engineering is proud sponsor of the event and Knowage, the open source suite powered by Engineering, will join the event with two speeches.

On Wednesday 23 at 11:30 AM CEST, “KNOWAGE 8 in Exclusive Preview” will be held by Davide Zerbetto, Knowage Architect. The speech will show the main novelties brought by Knowage 8, such as the new rich pre-built components within cockpits, the expansion of the in-cloud offers and many new functions aiming to further enhance user experience. With this new release, Knowage strengthens its commitment within OW2 community to support companies and public administrations in facing these unprecedented uncertain times thanks to a better capability to visualize data, make forecasts and take data-driven decisions.

On Wednesday 23 at 15:00 PM CEST, “Big Data exploitation: real use cases of Knowage adoption in healthcare and energy market“ will be held by Marco Cortella, Knowage Consultant. This speech will present two use cases that have been managed end-to-end, from data collection to the final use. The first use case illustrates how Knowage adoption helped public health authorities to create a homogeneous system of information and knowledge transfer across all the organization, allowing advanced and multi-dimensional analysis and the evaluation of company performances. The second use case concerns the energy market and energy consumption in buildings: the solution developed with Knowage provides real-time and periodic power consumption feedback, enabling data-driven decisions to save resources and money.

OW2CON21!

More about OW2con21: https://www.ow2con.org/view/2021/

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

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

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Knowage 7.4

Knowage 7.4 is now available for download. From the previous version 7.2 the following changes have been made:

THE DOSSIER

This new functionality automatically enriched a document (Word or PPT format) with Birt and cockpits reports.

NEW FUNCTIONALITIES IN COCKPITS

On TABLE widget is now possible to show a new index column with row numbers.

The Cockpit XLSX export will hold the background color managed by the threshold.

In the CROSS TABLE widget is now possible to change headers using variables, collapse/expand multi dimension on rows, add more than 3 thresholds, hide an empty row, block table header during scrolling and add calculated fields.

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

With Knowage 7.4 is now possible to create a cockpit using SQL dataset on Google BigQuery tool and using a QBE data set with analytical driver.

>> Read the full release note

>> Browse the new documentation

>> Download Knowage 7.4 or upgrade your already existing installation

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FOSDEM 2021

FOSDEM 2021 will be the first online edition of the well known free event that every year gathers thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world.

This edition features 648 speakers, 711 events, and 113 tracks. Activities take place in 109 rooms. There are essentially the following categories of sessions and activities: main tracks, developer rooms, lightning talks, stands and certification exams.

Main tracks

The main tracks consist of series of talks that are organised by topic, where the FOSDEM 2021 program committee selects suggestions and actively invites speakers on those topics.

Developer rooms

The vast majority of events (talks, hacking sessions, open discussions) are held in so-called developer rooms (devrooms), which are organized and managed by open source projects themselves, or even associations between several such projects on a common topic in order to foster collaboration.

Lightning talks

The lightning talk is a very popular format where speakers have a mere 15 minutes at their disposal to showcase an open source project, an idea, or a concept thereof. While that brief lapse of time may seem awkward, it almost always leads the presenters to concentrate on the absolute essence and what is really important, which is why it is often a much appreciated approach, as is the wide variety of the topics. There are currently 21 lightning talks in the schedule.

Knowage at OW2 Community booth

Stands offer a unique chance to get in touch with developers or project members, and discover at a glance what they do. The OW2 Community has its own booth and Knowage Labs will be available there to meet other colleagues and to present the main novelties in open source analytics and business intelligence.

<< Other news from Knowage

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Knowage is Fiware-ready Software Enabler

Knowage is now now available on Fiware Marketplace as Fiware-ready software enabler.

Knowage is the open source suite for modern business analytics and data visualization with any data, fully compliant with FIWARE architecture and GEs. Within FIWARE Marketplace, Knowage aims to provide BI capabilities or a complete BI solution that is open, innovative and cross domain for companies and public entities that have many data coming from many data sources, but often are not able to get full value from the data and experience a lack of information.

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KNOWAGE – fiware-ready software enabler – visit the Marketplace page

About FIWARE

FIWARE is the core platform for Future Internet applications, powered by the Future Internet Private Public Partnership Programme within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. FIWARE aims at providing a truly open, public and royalty-free architecture and a set of open specifications that allow developers, service providers, enterprises and other organizations to develop products which meet their business goals.

The FIWARE Marketplace serves the purpose of globally disseminating existing commercial offerings around FIWARE. It is a global one-stop shop that gives visibility to a wide range of Powered by FIWARE solutions/platforms, FIWARE-ready technologies as well as FIWARE related training/coaching or consultancy, integration and support services.

FIWARE-ready software enablers are base platform technologies, easily integrable with FIWARE, which extend the basic capabilities of the platform with advanced added-value features (e.g., location within buildings, representation of context information in maps, biometrics for access control…). Their combination with FIWARE allows to build more sophisticated applications.

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SFScon20 Event Highlights

On Friday, 13th November and Saturday, 14th November 2020, Knowage Labs joined the South Tyrol Free Software Conference, one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software.

It was the very first virtual edition of SFScon, which, despite the rather “special” conditions, reached more than 1,000 individual viewers on the first day alone! 95 speakers, 80 talks and 4 parallel tracks on Friday afternoon – so, lots of content.

Knowage Labs have be deeply involved above all in the first day of the event, November 13th:

In TRACK 1 Data Analytics, Marco Balestri (Knowage developer) held the speech “Boost dataviz with Python“. Here the video recording and the presentation.

In the OW2 track, Davide Vernassa (Knowage front-end developer) held the speech “Customize your data visualizations with KNOWAGE“. Here the video recording and the presentation.

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

In addition to the speeches, Knowage Labs hosted a virtual room to meet participants interested in business intelligence and give them the chance to ask more questions to the speakers.

During the Networking Meetings, Noemi Maglio, Knowage business developer, stayed at disposal of SFSco20 participants to support them discovering Knowage professional services and how Knowage can help them growing their business.

Here to read the first news announcing Knowage presence at SFScon20!

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KNOWAGE wins the OW2 Technology Award!

OW2 market award

KNOWAGE won the TECHNOLOGY AWARD and has been recognized as OW2con’20 Best Project. The award recognizes the technology excellence of the project, with specific attention to quality (tests coverage, code analysis tools, security vulnerabilities, etc), project health (number and evolution of releases, downloads, issues, etc), existence of a community (number of contributors, forums, and evolution) and user-friendliness (level of documentation provided, etc).

From OW2 press release:

The 2020 OW2 Best Project Technology Award goes to KNOWAGE, the business analytics platform, that has successfully maintained a strong momentum of constant innovation well reflected in the 7th release with new features and the ability to combine data from many different sources and scripts from different languages in an open source software that complies to open standards and can be easily embedded in third-party products and OEM solutions.

>> Read the full press release

OW2 is the international community dedicated to develop and to promote an open source code base. Each year, OW2 rewards three “best of breed” projects for their global contribution to the influence of the community ecosystem. This year, the other two award, the Community and the Market went respectively to Lutece and Melodic.

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Knowage already won the OW2 Market Award in 2018. Here the news!

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Free Software Conference in Bozen

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.

This year SFScon will take place on Friday, 13th November and Saturday, 14th November 2020 in blended mode: both online and at NOI Techpark, for a limited number of people.

>> Join the event!

Knowage Labs will be deeply involved above all in the first day of the event, November 13th:

– at 16:00 CEST
In TRACK 1 Data Analytics, Marco Balestri (Knowage developer) will held the speech “Boost dataviz with Python“.

– at 17:20 CEST

In the OW2 track, Davide Vernassa (Knowage front-end developer) will held the speech “Customize your data visualizations with KNOWAGE“

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.

at 17:00 CEST – OW2 TRACK – “DECODER: a toolbox for exploring, understanding and verifying software” by Virgile Prevosto, CEA List

at 17:40 CEST – OW2 TRACK – “Software Ecosystems as Networks: Advances on the FASTEN project” by Paolo Boldi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano

>> Browse the program

Moreover, the Free Software Conference will host two important side events:

NOI Hackathon SFScon Edition

A 24 hour event that brings together creatives and developers to conceive new ideas and projects that will be published on a public git repository as Open Source prototype.

Networking Meetings

B2B Matchmaking-meetings will take place on Friday the 13th November 2020 from 4 to 7 pm. The prescheduled one-to-one meetings (on-site and virtual) offer a unique possibility to identify potential cooperation partners and to generate new business and innovation opportunities. Every participant selects his conversation partners individually and has 20 minutes to exchange about their ideas, projects and products.

>> Register now to Network Meetings!

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