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Pentaho for Big Data Analytics

By : Manoj R Patil, Feris Thia
Book Image

Pentaho for Big Data Analytics

By: Manoj R Patil, Feris Thia

Overview of this book

<p>Pentaho accelerates the realization of value from big data with the most complete solution for big data analytics and data integration. The real power of big data analytics is the abstraction between data and analytics. Data can be distributed across the cluster in various formats, and the analytics platform should have the capability to talk to different heterogeneous data stores and fetch the filtered data to enrich its value.<br /><br />Pentaho Big Data Analytics is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with clear, step-by-step exercises for using Pentaho to take advantage of big data systems, where data beats algorithm, and gives you a good grounding in using Pentaho Business Analytics’ capabilities.<br /><br />This book looks at the key ingredients of the Pentaho Business Analytics platform. We will see how to prepare the Pentaho BI environment, and get to grips with the big data ecosystem through. The book provides a clear guide to the essential tools of Pentaho Business Analytics, providing familiarity with both the various design tools for setting up reports, and the visualization tools necessary for complete data analysis.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Pentaho for Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pentaho Action Sequence and solution


Pentaho Action Sequence is an XML file, which defines a workflow of tasks in Pentaho. It is needed to glue together several different Pentaho components that need to interact to achieve a purpose such as creating and e-mailing a report in PDF format. For more information on a complete list of components in the Pentaho Action Sequence, visit http://goo.gl/KbBg8M.

All the Action Sequence files have the .xaction extension and should be located in the [BISERVER]/pentaho-solutions folder. This folder also stores system configuration and Pentaho solution files. Pentaho solution is a file generated by the Pentaho design tools, such as Pentaho Reporting, Pentaho Schema Workbench, Pentaho Data Integration.

Action Sequence files can be created using Pentaho Design Studio, a desktop client tool. For more information about this tool, visit http://goo.gl/a62gFV.