Introduction

Creating printable reports for business intelligence is a keystone for any analytics solution. There are many cases where a user needs to create complex reports in various formats as well as print these reports so that they can distribute them to others throughout the business.

Pentaho Reports allows us to create connections to MongoDB in various ways to expose the crucial data stored within. We can use a number of methods to get this data from MongoDB including native connections using Pentaho Data Integration transformations that will get the data for us, or even Java classes that will expose the MongoDB API.