Preface

Using Pentaho allows you to build a complete analytics solution, and CTools brings an advanced flexibility to creating custom reports and making the most out of Pentaho. You can build your analytics dashboards/reports in an advanced and remarkable way. I can not avoid saying that Pentaho and CTools are two of the fastest and most amazing tools for building a complete solution that really takes your business to another level, and you probably would not be able to do with any other tool on the market.

CTools provides a way to use web technologies to deliver astounding data visualizations that are proven to create a huge visual impact, but the the learning curve can be quite slow; the documentation can be dispersed and sometimes not easy to obtain. So, this book will help overcome the problem, getting you up to speed and giving you basic and advanced concepts so that you can acquire all the knowledge you need.

By reading the book, you can learn not only how to understand how CTools work, but also the best way to make use of them. You will learn how to create custom dashboards to build incomparable analytics solutions. Throughout the book, your knowledge will increase, and at the end, you will be capable of creating your own custom and advanced analysis.