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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 Reporting


Pentaho Reporting is a predefined reporting suite with the ability to connect to rich data sources, including PDI transformation. It cannot have a dynamic matrix layout like that of OLAP's pivoting report, but it has the ability to include other rich-user interactivities. PRD (Pentaho Report Designer) is a client designer tool to create a Pentaho Reporting report. We will briefly explain the usage of PRD and the report's file format.

The solution file for the report will be in a compressed file format and has the .prpt extension. The reporting engine then parses and renders the file's content into an HTML page or in any other format that we choose. HTML resources such as cascading style sheets, JavaScripts, or image files can be included in the .prpt file. If you have any compression tool such as 7-Zip, try to explore one of the reporting samples distributed with Pentaho BI Server.

For example, the following screenshot shows the files contained in the [BISERVER]/pentaho-solutions...