Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL
Your one-stop resource for open source BI and data warehousing solutionsPentaho is a full-featured, open source Business Intelligence suite that lets you build data warehouses and rich, powerful BI applications at a fraction of the cost of a proprietary solution. This book gets you up and running with Pentaho within minutes: right from the start you'll be running example reports, dashboards, and OLAP pivot tables while you learn about Pentaho concepts and architecture. Using a practical case study, you'll learn what dimensional modeling is and how to apply it to design a data warehouse. You'll create and populate your data warehouse with Pentaho data integration tools. Finally, you'll learn how to build your own BI applications on top of your data warehouse using Pentaho reporting, analysis, dashboarding, and data mining tools.Understand important Pentaho concepts, including action sequences and the solution repositoryApply the key concepts of dimensional modeling and construct a data warehouse using star schemasUse Pentaho data integration tools to build ETL applicationsExplore advanced PDI features including remote execution and clusteringDesign and deploy reports and charts using Pentaho Report DesignerLeverage OLAP and create interactive pivot tables with drill up/drill down using Pentaho Analysis ServicesConcentrate and compact BI content for business users with comprehensive dashboardsDiscover and explore patterns in your data using Pentaho data mining