Pentaho Business Analytics

Business Analytics ..

This course is work in progress!

This course is in early access. The content is continually being updated over the next few months.

These Workshops are not intended for production environments

Introduction

Pentaho Business Analytics, is an enterprise-level business intelligence and data analytics platform that helps organizations transform raw data into actionable insights. The platform combines data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, and data mining capabilities in a unified suite.

Notable for its open-source foundations and commercial enterprise edition, Pentaho enables organizations to perform complex data analysis, create interactive visualizations, and generate detailed reports through both traditional and modern big data sources.

The platform supports various data sources and can integrate with popular databases and big data technologies like Hadoop, offering both on-premises and cloud deployment options.

By the end of the workshops, you will have a comprehensive understanding of:

Pentaho User Console

The Pentaho User Console (PUC) is a comprehensive web-based interface that serves as the central hub for Pentaho's business intelligence capabilities. It offers content management features, allowing users to organize, store, and manage various types of reports, dashboards, and analyses through an intuitive file browser interface.

Pentaho Interactive Reports

The Pentaho Interactive Reports (PIR) functionality provides a comprehensive self-service reporting solution within the Pentaho suite. It empowers business users to create and modify their own reports through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, without requiring technical expertise.

Pentaho Analyzer Reports

Pentaho Analyzer Reports (PAZ) is a powerful OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) analysis tool that enables users to perform deep, multidimensional data exploration and analysis through an intuitive web-based interface. Users can create sophisticated analytical reports by dragging and dropping dimensions and measures, while easily navigating through different levels of data granularity using drill-down and drill-through capabilities.

Dashboard Designer

Pentaho Dashboards offers a powerful data visualization and presentation platform that enables users to create interactive, real-time business intelligence dashboards through an intuitive web-based interface.

The platform features a flexible drag-and-drop dashboard designer that allows users to combine multiple report types, charts, and data visualizations into unified, coherent displays.

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Overview

The following video introduces the main Topics covered in the Workshops.

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Lab Environment

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When does the Lab expire ?

The initial duration is 5 days. You will receive an email asking if you wish to extend your time limit.

Is there sound ?

Yes .. There's no sound card attched to the Lab, so you'll need to copy and paste the Lab Guide URL in your host machine browser. 😊

Where can I get a copy of the 'workshop files' ?

Sure .. All the collateral can be found at: ~/Workshop--Data-Integration. You can also copy/fork the Git repository.

gh repo clone jporeilly/Workshop--Pentaho-Data-Catalog

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