PENTAHO BA

Community Edition

Pentaho's modern, simplified, and interactive approach empowers business users to access, discover and blend any data types regardless of their size. With a full spectrum of increasingly advanced analytics tools, from basic reports to predictive modeling, users can help themselves to analyze and visualize data across multiple measures and dimensions without being dependent on IT.

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Hardware Requirement

Requirement

  • Java 8
  • Tomcat Server

Installation

  • Extract downloaded file pentaho-server-ce-7.0.0.0-25.zip 
  • Open Terminal go to pentaho-server directory
  • Run start-pentaho script (.sh for linux | .bat for windows)
  • Open Browser http://<server>:8080/pentaho

Troubleshoot

  • To check what is happening to the web application <pentaho-server>/tomcat/logs/catalina.out

Pentaho BA Platform 7

Data Source

Dashboard

Report

  • JDBC
  • JNDI
  • Kettle Query
  • OLAP
  • CDE
  • Custom Dashboard
  • PDF
  • Excel
  • Rich-text Format
  • HTML
  • XML
  • CSV

Sample DAshboard

Custom DAshboard

Present dashboard

Embed Dashboard

  • using iframe
  • custom html, css dashboard design

pentaho user control

  • create user previleges for the dashboard

PROS

  • Easy to use
  • Drag & drop without coding
  • integrate with PDI
  • customizeable dashboard template

CONS

  • Need .js coding for some advance scenarios
  • Uncustomized chart

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By Fakhri Nurfauzan

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