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Published inAug 2013
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781782162247
Edition1st Edition
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Learning Pentaho


Pentaho is an open source / free software project whose goal is to create Business Intelligence solutions. Pentaho's license is the GNU GPL and its principal functionalities are as follows:

  • Business reporting and analysis

  • Dashboards

  • Data mining

  • Data integration, alerts, subscriptions, and so on

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Defining Pentaho

We can define Pentaho as a solutions-oriented and process-centered platform:

  • It is solutions oriented because when we talk about developing or implementing a project in Pentaho, we are talking about developing or implementing a solution. Physically creating a solution in Pentaho means creating a folder with a given path (we will discuss this more in depth soon) The resources and components that will attack this particular business problem are found in a structure in this folder.

  • It is process...

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Published in: Aug 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782162247