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 application, it's all here.

MATTIO

Dario R. Bernabeu

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eBook Aug 2013 342 pages 1st Edition

MATTIO

Dario R. Bernabeu

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Install and configure PRD in Linux and Windows
Create complex reports using relational data sources
Produce reports with groups, aggregate functions, parameters, graphics, and sparklines
Install and configure Pentaho BI Server to execute PRD reports
Create and publish your own Java web application with parameterized reports and an interactive user interface

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Open source reporting tools and techniques, such as PRD, have been comparable in quality to their commercial counterparts this is largely due to the market's marked tendency to choose open source solutions. PRD is a very powerful tool and in order to take full advantage of it you need to pay attention to the important details. Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner's Guide clearly explains the the foundation and then puts those concepts into practice through step-by-step visual guides. Feeling confident with your newly discovered, desirable, skill you will have the power to create your very own professional reports including graphics, formulas, sub-reports and many other forms of data reporting.Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to create high quality, professional reports. Starting with the basics we will explore each feature to ensure a thorough understanding to peel back the curtain and take full advantage of the power that Pentaho puts at our fingertips. This book gives you the necessary resources to create a great variety of reports. You will be able to make reports that contain sub-reports, include graphics, sparklines and so on. You will also be able to parameterize your reports so that the final user can decide what information to visualize. You will be able to create your own stoplight type indicators and drill down in your reports. and execute your reports from your own web application. Pentaho 5.0 Reporting By Example: Beginner's Guide lets you learn everything necessary to work seriously with one of the world's most popular open source reporting tools. This book will guide you chapter by chapter through examples, graphics, and theoretical explanations so that you feel comfortable interacting with Pentaho Report Designer and creating your own reports.

Who is this book for?

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.

What you will learn

Download, configure, and install Pentaho Report Designer
Create your own data sources or insertable objects that can use them
Produce reports with different hierarchical levels and create aggregate functions to calculate totals and sub-totals
Use parameters in your reports to enable the user to interact directly with your report
Generate your own sub-reports and add graphics and sparklines
Create reports with the capacity to drill down
Publish and execute your reports on the Pentaho BI Server
Produce reports that use session variables such as user, role, to vary their content
Develop your own Java web application to execute your reports.

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rgillespi Dec 15, 2014

easy to read/comprehend, hope it's enough to get me a job

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Devashish Rao Feb 07, 2014

This is a Good Book. Detailed step by step explanation is given for implementing report using Pentaho.Recommended for Beginners as well as freshers.Devashish RaoPentaho Developer and Analyst.

Rodrigo Porto Jan 10, 2014

For me, the PRD was one of the tools of Pentaho suite more obscure and difficult to use.It "was" until I started reading this book.The book follows a great didactic to clarify and teach all the features of this great Pentaho tool.Strongly recommend this book for both beginners and those who already have plenty of experience in Pentaho reporting.

Will Gorman Nov 29, 2013

It’s been four years since I published Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers. A lot has changed in Pentaho Reporting since then, so it’s great to see a new book now available from Packt, Pentaho 5.0 Reporting by Example: Beginner’s Guide, co-authored by Mariano Mattio and Dario Bernabeu. This book has a different purpose than the Java Developer book, it’s focus is a deeper dive into examples to quickly bring folks up to speed on the various capabilities of Pentaho Reporting.For those who already are familiar with the basics of Pentaho Reporting, I would still recommend this book for a couple of reasons. First, Chapter 12 covers both content linking and sparklines, very useful features for your every day reports. Second, one of the newest features in Pentaho Reporting 5.0 is stylesheets. In Chapter 13, this book does a great job at an initial introduction to get you started on this powerful capability.Thanks Mariano and Dario for this great contribution!

Wesley Seidel Carvalho Jan 09, 2014

I've been working for at least a 4 year old with Pentaho and its ecosystem.During this period I have followed developments of the tools and support materials for learning, among them some books.Recently I acquired this book and even having worked with Pentaho Reporting, could still learn more from this book. I liked a lot of the approach in the use of the database "sakila" of the Mysql to illustrate the various possibilities of the tool.The examples are really useful. In addition, the book covers well the possibilities of the tool.Teaches since the creation of simpler report by creating parameterized reports and the use of charts, sparklines, and even create and apply CSS and the use of crosstabs.With regard to programming, teaches since how to configure an application server, with tomcat, until the creation of a "Dynamic Web Project" in eclipse, the use of the PRD library and use the models created in the tool.Anyway, this is a great book to have for the use of the PRD and as a possible reference.Congratulations to the authors, and thank you for this contribution.

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 application, it's all here.

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