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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By : Bo Borland
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Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB

By: Bo Borland

Overview of this book

<p>Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB will teach you MongoDB and Pentaho integration points and developer skills needed to create turnkey analytic solutions that deliver insight and drive value for your organization.<br /><br />Starting with how to install, configure, and develop content in both Pentaho and MongoDB, this book will give you the complete range of skills needed to gain insight into MongoDB data using Pentaho Business Analytics.&nbsp; You will learn about MongoDB data models and query techniques, which are covered in combination with the provided sample MongoDB database. You then advance to data integration, analysis, and reporting using Pentaho.<br /><br />You will learn how to use Pentaho Data Integration to blend and enrich data from additional sources. From this blended data, you will develop professional-looking reports and analysis views that are visual and interactive. Lastly, we will cover the Pentaho web portal and web interfaces for deploying analytics out to a broader set of consumer users.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Accessing and connecting Instaview to MongoDB


In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Pentaho and MongoDB, you installed both the Pentaho server and client components on a single Windows computer. Instaview is one of those client components; it is exposed as a perspective through PDI. There are a couple of ways to access Instaview, either directly from your Windows Start menu or from the Instaview perspective inside PDI.

You will notice both Instaview and Data Integration in the following Start menu screenshot:

Both links launch PDI; however, the Instaview link launches you directly into the Instaview perspective of PDI. Alternatively, you can launch Instaview or PDI from their respective Windows batch files, Instaview.bat and Spoon.bat, located at {Pentaho Install Directory}/design-tools/data-integration.

The Instaview perspective allows PDI developers to quickly and easily connect to a single MongoDB collection and parse the document hierarchy into a set of fields for analysis. You can then analyze...