Components

Pentaho Reporting consists of the Reporting engine, Report Designer, the Pentaho BI Server, and the following client tools and add-ons:

Metadata Editor
Design Studio
Pentaho Administration Console for Community Edition users, and Pentaho Enterprise Console for Enterprise Edition users.

The BI Server can be built as a standalone WAR that can be deployed to an existing server, but it is typically bundled by Pentaho with the above-listed tools, plus the Apache Tomcat application server version 5.5, and the MySQL relational database version 5.0. This forms a self-contained, Web-based framework for managing and creating business intelligence solutions.

Features

Pentaho Reporting offers the following functionality:

Pixel-perfect report creation with Report Designer.
The ability to add a user-friendly metadata domain to a data source via Metadata Editor.
Fine-tuning of reports created with Report Designer and ad hoc reporting through Design Studio.
The Pentaho User Console Web interface, which enables easy management of reports and analysis views.
An ad hoc reporting interface, which offers a step-by-step wizard for designing simple reports. Output formats include PDF, RTF, HTML, and XLS.
A complex scheduling subsystem that enables users to set reports to execute at given intervals.
The ability to email a published report to other users.
Connectivity between Reporting client tools and the BI Server, which allows content created with Metadata Editor, Report Designer, and Design Studio to directly publish to the BI Server.

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