Pentaho Business Analytics Cookbook

Approach 

This practical guide contains a wide variety of recipes, taking you through all the topics you need to quickly familiarize yourself with Pentaho and extend your Pentaho skillset. Over 100 recipes to get you fully acquainted with the key features of Pentaho BA 5 and increase your productivity 

In Detail

Pentaho Business Analytics 5 is a complete open source business intelligence suite, providing data integration, OLAP, reporting, data visualization, and data mining features. Pentaho Business Analytics Cookbook provides you with a valuable and detailed set of recipes that illustrate all the features of Pentaho Business Analytics 5, the new version of the popular BI platform. The book provides clear illustrations and simple examples, helping you learn the core topics visually

What you will learn

• Familiarize yourself with the Pentaho User Console along with user and administrative tasks
• Define data sources and get data from any Pentaho source
• Build analysis easily with OLAP and the Pentaho Analyzer
• Look into Pentaho Mobile App and see how easy it is to use the platform from a mobile device
• Design complex but effective reports with Pentaho Report Designer
• Hack the platform to customize the look and feel of the portal, add new functionalities, and integrate third-party web applications