Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide: Learn to use the power of Pentaho for Business Intelligence reporting in a series of simple, logical stages. From installation in Windows or Linux right through to publishing your own Java web applicatio

by Mariano, GARCIA MATTIO, Dario R. Bernabeu

Overview

Pentaho 5.0 By Example: Beginner's Guide is the ideal companion for a wide-variety of developers. Whether you are new to the world of Business Intelligence reporting, or an experienced BI analyst, this book will guide you through the creation of your first reports in Pentaho. We assume some knowledge of the SQL language and database systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782162254
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	08/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Dario R. Bernabeu is a systems engineer at the Instituto Universitario Aeronutico (University Aeronautic Institute) IUA. He is the co-founder of eGluBI (www.eglubi.com.ar). He specializes in development and implementation of OSBI solutions (Open Source Business Intelligence), project management, analysis of requirements/needs, deployment and configuration of BI solutions, design of data integration processes, data warehouse modelling, design of multidimensional cubes and business models, development of ad hoc reports, advanced reports, interactive analysis, dashboards, and so on. A teacher, researcher, geek, and open source software enthusiast, his most notable publication is "Data Warehousing: Research and Concept Systematization HEFESTO: Methodology for the Construction of a DW". Being the coordinator of the social network Open BI Network (www.redopenbi.com), he makes many contributions to various forums, wikis, blogs, and so on. You can find his blog site at http://tgx-hefesto.blogspot.com/.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction-What is Pentaho Report Designer (PRD)
2. Installation and Configuration
3. Start PRD: User Interface (UI) Layout
4. Instant Gratification - Creating your first report with PRD
5. Adding relational data source
6. Adding groups
7. Adding parameters
8. Using formulas in our reports
9. Adding Graphics
10. Adding subreports
11. Making a Difference: reports with hyperlinks and sparklines
12. Publish and run reports into Pentaho BI Server
13. Bonus Chapter: Creating report based on data from Pentaho
14. Now become Developer Hero: PRD reports embed in web applications
15. App A