Pentaho Solutions:
Business Intelligence and
Data Warehousing with
Pentaho and MySQL

Roland Bouman, Jos van Dongen

ISBN: 978-0-470-48432-6
Paperback
648 pages
August 2009

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Your all-in-one resource for using Pentaho with MySQL for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

Open-source Pentaho provides business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Now you can take advantage of Pentaho for your business needs with this practical guide written by two major participants in the Pentaho community.

The book covers all components of the Pentaho BI Suite. You'll learn to install, use, and maintain Pentaho-and find plenty of background discussion that will bring you thoroughly up to speed on BI and Pentaho concepts.

• Of all available open source BI products, Pentaho offers the most comprehensive toolset and is the fastest growing open source product suite
• Explains how to build and load a data warehouse with Pentaho Kettle for data integration/ETL, manually create JFree (pentaho reporting services) reports using direct SQL queries, and create Mondrian (Pentaho analysis services) cubes and attach them to a JPivot cube browser
• Review deploying reports, cubes and metadata to the Pentaho platform in order to distribute BI solutions to end-users
• Shows how to set up scheduling, subscription and automatic distribution

The companion Web site provides complete source code examples, sample data, and links to related resources.

Table of Contents:

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Introduction

Part I Getting Started with Pentaho
Chapter 1 Quick Start: Pentaho Examples
Chapter 2 Prerequisites
Chapter 3 Server Installation and Configuration
Chapter 4 The Pentaho BI Stack

Part II Dimensional Modeling and Data Warehouse Design
Chapter 5 Example Business Case: World Class Movies
Chapter 6 Data Warehouse Primer
Chapter 7 Modeling the Business Using Star Schemas
Chapter 8 The Data Mart Design Process

Part III ETL and Data Integration
Chapter 9 Pentaho Data Integration Primer
Chapter 10 Designing Pentaho Data Integration Solutions
Chapter 11 Deploying Pentaho Data Integration Solutions

Part IV Business Intelligence Applications
Chapter 12 The Metadata Layer
Chapter 13 Using The Pentaho Reporting Tools
Chapter 14 Scheduling, Subscription, and Bursting
Chapter 15 OLAP Solutions Using Pentaho Analysis Services
Chapter 16 Data Mining with Weka
Chapter 17 Building Dashboards

Index

Roland Bouman is an application developer focusing on open source Web technology, databases, and Business Intelligence. He is an active member of the MySQL and Pentaho communities, and you can follow his blog at http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/.

Jos van Dongen is a seasoned Business Intelligence professional and well-known author and presenter. He speaks regularly at conferences and seminars. You can find more information about Jos at http://www.tholis.com.