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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

Enabling your Instaview output for the Web


Instaview is a client-based analysis tool for single-user, agile development and analysis. Pentaho Analyzer is the OLAP analysis component embedded inside of Instaview. Analyzer works and performs well on MongoDB data because of Instaview's in-memory data cache mechanism. However, this local cache is not accessible to the BA server, so to enable web-based OLAP analysis on MongoDB data, we need to load the appropriate MongoDB data into a JDBC-compliant relational or analytical database.

If you remember, in Chapter 3, Using Pentaho Instaview, and Chapter 4, Modifying and Enhancing Instaview Transformations, Instaview automatically generated a data integration transformation, and we enhanced it to blend geographic data with MongoDB clickstream data. We want to leverage this valuable data integration work to avoid creating a new transformation from scratch. This section shows how Instaview can enable an agile development and analysis environment for...