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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

Navigating through Pentaho Report Designer


PRD is launched from your Windows Start menu under the Pentaho application folder. Within that folder, you will find the Report Designer item within the Pentaho Business Analytics subdirectory. Alternatively, you can launch PRD from the Windows batch file located under \pentaho\design-tools\report-designer\report-designer.bat.

Upon launching PRD, the Welcome screen will appear to help new users get started with running sample reports, creating a new report, or using the Report Wizard to assist in developing a simple report:

Report workspace

Upon clicking on New Report, a blank report will be created as a new tab in the report workspace. PRD is a banded report writer because the workspace is divided into horizontal layout bands that extend across the page. Each band contains different information for constructing a logical report layout. PRD will display a default set of layout bands, as shown in the following screenshot:

The currently selected Page...