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ISBN: 978-0-470-48432-6
Paperback, 648 pages
Published August 2009 John Wiley & Sons
Authors: Roland Bouman, Jos van Dongen
Covers Pentaho 3.5
Free excerpts: Table of contents, Sample chapter and index
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The book covers all components of the Pentaho BI Suite. Using a complete and comprehensive business case featuring a fictitious online DVD rental company, you'll learn about BI and data warehousing concepts, and how these apply to the Pentaho BI stack. The many detailed how-to's and hands-on examples will get you started building your own Pentaho BI applications in record speed.

This book covers:

General BI & data warehousing concepts
Installing and configuring the Pentaho BI server
Building and loading data warehouses with Pentaho Kettle
Creating reports based on SQL queries
Creating Mondrian cubes and browsing them with the JPivot cube browser
Building dashboards with the community dashboard framework
Distribute BI solutions to end-users with the mantle user console
Set up scheduling, subscription and automatic distribution of BI content
The companion Web site provides complete source code examples, sample data, and links to related resources, as well as a free sample chapter.